South-South Trade In Goods

Przemyslaw Kowalski ; Ben Shepherd

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

关键词: gravity model;    south-south trade;    gains from trade;    tariff barriers;    distance;    computable general equilibrium;   

DOI  :  https://doi.org/10.1787/314103237622

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: OECD iLibrary

【 摘 要 】

The empirical analysis presented in this paper indicates that trade between developing countries (South-South trade) offers a wide scope for specialisation and efficiency gains. The first part of the paper takes an ex-post perspective and employs the gravity methodology to contribute to understanding past trends in world goods trade with a special focus on South-South trade. Analysis shows that far from experiencing a ?death of distance?, South-South trade is still severely...