| Description |
1 online resource (40 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
IMF working paper ; WP/234
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IMF working paper ; WP/12/234.
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| Note |
Title from PDF title page (IMF Web site, viewed Sept. 28, 2012). |
| Summary |
This paper studies the potential for the export sector to play a more important role in promoting growth in Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic (CAPDR) through deeper intra-regional and global trade integration. CAPDR countries have enacted many free trade agreements and other regional integration initiatives in recent years, but this paper finds that their exports remain below the norm for countries of their size. Several indexes of outward orientation are constructed and suggest that the breadth of geographic trading relationships, depth of integration into global production chains, and degree of technological sophistication of exports in CAPDR are less conducive to higher exports and growth than in fast-growing, export-oriented economies. To boost exports and growth, CAPDR should implement policies to facilitate economic integration, particularly building a customs union, harmonizing trade rules, improving logistics and infrastructure, and enhancing regional coordination. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
"Western Hemisphere Department." |
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"September 2012." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Central America -- Economic integration.
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Central America. |
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Exports -- Central America.
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Exports. |
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Exports -- Panama.
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Panama. |
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Exports -- Dominican Republic.
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Dominican Republic. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Swiston, A. (Andrew James)
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Barrot, Luis-Diego.
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International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Department.
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| ISBN |
9781475512021 (electronic book) |
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1475512023 (electronic book) |
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