South-South Trade In Goods [electronic resource] /
Przemyslaw Kowalski and Ben Shepherd
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 2006.
- 85 p. ; 21 x 29.7cm.
- OECD Trade Policy Papers, no.40 18166873 ; .
- OECD Trade Policy Papers, no.40. .
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...