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The Growth of China and India in World Trade : Opportunity or Threat for Latin America and the Caribbean?

This paper studies the relationship between the growth of China and India in world merchandise trade and Latin American and Caribbean commercial flows from two perspectives. First, the authors focus on the opportunity that China and India's ma...

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Main Authors:	Lederman, Daniel, Olarreaga, Marcelo, Soloaga, Isidro
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE VALUE AGGREGATE TRADE AGRICULTURE BILATERAL IMPORTS BILATERAL TRADE CENTRAL AMERICA COMMODITY PRICES COMPETITIVENESS CONTROL VARIABLE COUNTRY DUMMIES COVARIANCE MATRIX DEMAND ELASTICITIES DEMAND ELASTICITY DEMAND GROWTH DEMAND SHOCKS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DUMMY VARIABLE DUMMY VARIABLES ECONOMETRIC ESTIMATES ECONOMETRIC EVIDENCE ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC SIZE ELASTICITY EXPECTED VALUE EXPLANATORY VARIABLES EXPORT GROWTH EXPORT MARKETS EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES EXPORTER EXPORTERS EXPORTS FACTOR ENDOWMENTS FEDERAL RESERVE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM FIXED EFFECTS GDP GDP PER CAPITA GLOBAL ECONOMY GLOBAL FACTORS GLOBAL TRADE GRAVITY APPROACH GRAVITY EQUATION GRAVITY FRAMEWORK GRAVITY MODEL GRAVITY MODELS GRAVITY VARIABLES GROWTH RATE IMPORT DEMAND INDUSTRY TRADE INEQUALITY INTERMEDIATE INPUTS INTERNATIONAL FINANCE INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION INTERNATIONAL TRADE LATIN AMERICAN MACROECONOMIC CRISES MARGINAL PROPENSITY TO IMPORT MARKET SHARE MARKETING MERCHANDISE MERCHANDISE EXPORTS MERCHANDISE TRADE MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES POLITICAL ECONOMY POSITIVE EFFECTS PRICE INDEX PRODUCER PRICE PRODUCER PRICE INDEX RAPID GROWTH RATE OF GROWTH REGIONALISM SPECIALIZATION SUBSTITUTION SUBSTITUTION EFFECT SUPPLY CAPACITY SUPPLY RESPONSE TELECOMMUNICATIONS TERMS OF TRADE THIRD MARKET THIRD MARKETS TOTAL EXPORTS TRADE DATA TRADE DEFICIT TRADE EFFECTS TRADE FLOWS TRADE POLICIES TRADE STATISTICS TRADE SURPLUS TRADE VOLUMES TRADING PARTNER TRADING PARTNERS TRANSPORT COSTS TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO UNCERTAINTY VALUE ADDED WEIGHTS WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS WORLD MARKETS WORLD TRADE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/08/8092215/growth-china-india-world-trade-opportunity-or-threat-latin-america-caribbean http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7307

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Summary:	This paper studies the relationship between the growth of China and India in world merchandise trade and Latin American and Caribbean commercial flows from two perspectives. First, the authors focus on the opportunity that China and India's markets have offered Latin American and Caribbean exporters during 2000-2004. Second, empirical analyses examine the partial correlation between Chinese and Indian bilateral trade flows and Latin American and Caribbean trade with third markets. Both analyses rely on the gravity model of international trade. Econometric estimations that control for the systematic correlation between expected bilateral trade volumes and the size of their regression errors, as well as importer and exporter fixed effects and year effects, provide consistent estimates of the relevant parameters for different groups of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Results suggest that the growth of the two Asian markets has produced large opportunities for Latin American and Caribbean exporters, which nevertheless have not been fully exploited. The evidence concerning the effects of Chinese and Indian trade with third markets is not robust, but there is little evidence of negative effects on Latin American and Caribbean exports of non-fuel merchandise. In general, China's and to a large extent India's growing presence in world trade has been good news for Latin America and the Caribbean, but some of the potential benefits remain unexploited.