This paper addresses the sustainability of Turkey’s current-account position by emphasizing household consumption and exports. It highlights Turkey’s comparatively high consumption expenditure as a share of GDP, much of which credit financed over the past few years, and the significant...

China's opening to trade is interpreted as a shift in world average factor endowments, which altered the comparative advantage of other countries. In the rest of the world on average, this shift reduced the ratio of labour-intensive manufacturing to primary production by 7-10% for output and...