OECD Trade Policy Papers
This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected trade policy studies prepared for use within the OECD.
NB. No. 1 to No. 139 were released under the previous series title OECD Trade Policy Working Papers.
- ISSN: 18166873 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/18166873
South-South Trade In Goods
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...
Keywords: gravity model, south-south trade, gains from trade, tariff barriers, distance, computable general equilibrium
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