DETERMINANTS OF BILATERAL TRADE BETWEEN CAMEROON AND HER TRADING PARTNERS: EMPIRICAL TEST OF THE GRAVITY MODEL | Journal of Economics and Trade
Many emerging countries' economies have relied heavily on exports in recent years. This will help to increase economic growth, employment, and the balance of payments. The government of Cameroon has implemented a number of trade policy measures targeted at boosting the export industry. Despite this, the country's proportion in global exports remains quite low. Given the importance of exports in the economy, an enhanced gravity trade model was used to find the likely factors impacting export flows between Cameroon and its trading partners. The panel dataset utilised in this study spanned the years 1995 to 2014. The findings revealed a positive and statistically significant relationship between Cameroon's GDP, importer's GDP, real exchange rate, population, and official common language.
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We finally meet the Watcher, and we start wrapping up the misadventures of Seven, Raffi, and Rios. Everything else is on probation, but I'm fully in the tank with this weird thing happening between Agnes Jurati and the Borg Queen.
Episodes are on my Patreon, but they’re there for free. I plan for them to go up on the Wednesdays after the new episodes. TW: Language, alcohol, plus all warnings for Star Trek: Picard.
We’re back in the distant past of the near future and we split the party in search of the one plot-important person who can tell us how to fix the future. It’s a big enough mess that I can easily see us spending the next seven episodes cleaning it up, and we don’t even know the central conflict yet.
Picard is continuing its streak of okay-ness and I’m a bit intrigued about what happens next.
Episodes are on my Patreon, but they’re there for free. I plan for them to go up on the Wednesdays after the new episodes (I’m still catching up after the storm). TW: Language, alcohol, plus all warnings for Star Trek: Picard.
What did Jean-Luc ever do to you, man? I got a lot of nitpicks here--General Sisko--but it's keeping me invested and being just smart enough for me to enjoy.
My internet went down not because of the big storm that swept through the south last week, but because the douchebags remodeling the house next door cut the fiber optic cable with their big bags of douche.
Episodes are on my Patreon, but they’re there for free. I plan for them to go up on the Wednesdays after the new episodes. TW: Language, alcohol, plus all warnings for Star Trek: Picard.
There’s a new season of Star Trek: Picard, so there’s also a new season of PP:CotSSE (PCSE). I’m intrigued, but then I was also somewhat positive on Picard season one at this point, so there’s no telling where this crazy train is going.
Episodes are on my Patreon, but they’re there for free. I plan for them to go up on the Wednesdays after the new episodes. TW: Language, alcohol, plus all warnings for Star Trek: Picard.
I don't usually post links to petitions, but this is an important one. In the UK, Capita recently took over the duties to transfer medical records from one doctors practice to another. Since then, thousands of notes are in an unknown location, and it's due to Capita. They took over the previous organisation (PCSE) and made most, if not all of the staff redundant and have failed to pick up the pieces. I work in the NHS and know this issue first hand, but it affects so many people. For some reason this hasn't been publicised by the media yet, but this is real. These are people's medical records; people's healthcare. It's a serious matter. If you've changed doctors surgeries in recent months, your notes could be lost in their system. This is a serious issue, just take a minute to look into it, thanks.
One thing I have noticed in the last few years in the UK is how people are getting ever so special. Let me explain. When I walk the dog I notice that some people feel I should keep my dog full time on a lead. These are places such as a canal or local park where we are not near a road. My dog just loves to run. She does not threaten other people or dogs. But for some people they feel that they are…
Conversation: Sam wakes up Blaine early Sunday morning to apologize.
Blaine: [the shrill ring of his phone wakes him up and he blindly reaches out of bed to get it, putting it up to his ear before he can even look at who at is, figures it's Sebastian.] sleepy: hello?
Sam: [he's quiet for a long moment, relieved that Blaine has answered the phone] softly: hi baby. did I wake you?
Blaine: [he's awake now upon hearing who it is. he's silent for a long moment, swallows] upset: what do you want?
Sam: Please hear me out, I'm...I'm so sorry.
Blaine: [he swallows thickly, wants to cry] Why did you...I don't understand. Was...Am I bad boyfriend? [he manages to get through saying that without his voice cracking]
Sam: Fuck [he's quiet a moment] No, God no you're...you're amazing and I fucked it all up.
Blaine: [his lower lip wobbles and he say's nothing, looking down at his comforter, his fingers play with the fabric as he sniffles]
Sam softly: Please don't cry.
Blaine: [he breathes out] what happened, why did you do it?
Sam: [he licks his lips and bites his lower one] I...I was drunk. I didn't mean--
Blaine: What? Didn't mean to make out with someone or you didn't mean to get caught?
Sam: [he frowns] I didn't mean to hurt you.
Blaine: Well, [he laughs but it's choked sounding] you did.
Sam: I...I made a mistake. I fucked up. [he swallows] I don't expect you to forgive me but...I love you.
Blaine: [his mouth opens and closes as he hears the words, he doesn't know what to say, his heart is pulling in two directions]
Sam: I love you and you deserved an apology so...
Blaine: [he sniffles, squeezes his eyes shut before he sighs. he knows he hadn't deserved this in the first place. he wonders if he's going to regret this...but if he doesn't give it a shot, he'll never know. and not knowing is worse than the alternative, isn't it?] softly: Everyone deserves a second chance.
Sam: [he smiles softly] You hear that from one of your fancy black and white movies?
Blaine: [he feels a small smile tug the ends of his mouth] No, something my grandpap taught me. [he licks his lips, wants to tell Sam about his grandfather but decides against it, doesn't trust him]
Sam: Can I see you later today? I can bring take-out for dinner.
Blaine: [he nods softly] Sure, yeah. I'd like that.
Sam: [he smiles] Okay, see you then.
Blaine: [he waits a few moments before sighing] I love you too, you know.
Sam: [he bites his lower lip, heart fluttering] Yeah...yeah I know.
