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Lancashire, India, and shifting competitive advantage in cotton textiles, 1700,1850: the neglected role of factor prices1

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 2 2009
STEPHEN BROADBERRY
In the early eighteenth century, wages in Britain were more than four times as high as in India, the world's major exporter of cotton textiles. This induced the adoption of more capital-intensive production methods in Britain and a faster rate of technological progress, so that competitive advantage had begun to shift in Britain's favour by the late eighteenth century. However, the completion of the process was delayed until after the Napoleonic Wars by increasing raw cotton costs, before supply adjusted to the major increase in demand for inputs. [source]

Mean and Variance Causality between Official and Parallel Currency Markets: Evidence from Four Latin American Countries

FINANCIAL REVIEW, Issue 2 2002
Angelos Kanas
This paper examines the issue of mean and variance causality across four Latin American official and black markets for foreign currency using monthly data for the period 1976,1993. We apply a recent test developed by Cheung and Ng (1996) in order to test for mean and variance spillovers. The main findings are: (1) In contrast to the findings of previous studies, EGARCH-M processes characterize each bilateral exchange rate series in both markets; (2) There is substantial evidence of causality in both mean and variance with the causality in mean largely being driven by the causality in variance; and (3) The results indicate that the major exporter of causality is the Mexican black market with the black market of Argentina and the black and official markets of Brazil being the smallest contributors. [source]

Networks, firms and upgrading within the blue-jeans industry: evidence from Turkey

GLOBAL NETWORKS, Issue 1 2007
NEBAHAT TOKATLI
Abstract Since the late 1980s, industry characteristics, country-specific contingencies and international conditions have come together and turned Turkey into a major exporter of jeans. It now has a 6.5 per cent share of the world's market. In this article, I explore this transformation and point out that it has created, especially in the 1990s, significant upgrading opportunities for Turkish firms. A large number of Turkish manufacturing firms are now full-package contractors for a diversified list of brand-name jeans. Some of these manufacturers are also experimenting with functional upgrading by developing their own brands and selling them abroad. Local firms, despite their subordinate position in the value chain, can go beyond low value-added manufacturing and encroach on the core competencies of lead firms. [source]

The Expansion of Global Governance into the Third World: Altruism, Realism, or Constructivism?

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 1 2004
Yakub Halabi
This essay examines the expansion of global governance into developing countries. Its central thesis is that in the present era of globalization, competitiveness has become a major concern for developed countries, in particular, those facing tough competition from the developing states that have improved their terms of trade through state-led development strategies and have become major exporters of manufactured products. Developed countries seek the expansion of global governance in order to regulate the behavior of these developing states, thereby opening their economies to foreign investment and augmenting their wealth. Yet, a successful expansion of global governance requires the creation of internal institutions in the developing countries that may alter their political cultures. Given the unique problems of the developing states, this task cannot be achieved simply by internationalizing the countries in the Global South. This essay relies on the theory of social constructivism and contends that the creation of internal institutions compatible with global governance has been achieved only when developing countries have become convinced that global regulations will benefit them, not just the more developed states. [source]