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Commercial Links Between Western Europe and East Asia: Retrospect and Prospects

Anderson, Kym; Francois, Joseph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

East Asia has rapidly become the third centre of gravity for global economic activity. North America is relatively well integrated with East Asia, but Europe is not. This paper explores the extent to which economic growth and trade policy developments over the next decade or so will strengthen...

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TFPG Controversies, Institutions, and Economic Performance in East Asia

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The controversy over the appropriate partitioning of East Asian growth into accumulation versus technical change has overlooked a fundamental indeterminacy in measurement. As a result, we cannot rule out the possibility that East Asia has in fact experienced a tremendous amount of technological...

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King Kong Meets Godzilla: The World Bank and The East Asian Miracle

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The World Bank's The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy makes official what East Asian specialists had long known: most of the high-performing Asian economies have had extensive government intervention, and some of these interventions, in the areas of credit and exports, have...

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What Happened to Asian Exports During the Crisis?

Duttagupta, Rupa; Spilimbergo, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

After the large exchange rate depreciations following the 1997 East Asian crisis, export volumes from East Asian countries responded with a notable lag. Two main explanations for this lag have been proposed: that contraction in domestic credit affected supply of exports; and that ‘competitive...

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Managing the Noodle Bowl: The Fragility of East Asian Regionalism

Baldwin, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The paper argues that East Asian regionalism is fragile since (i) each nation's industrial competitiveness depends on the smooth functioning of 'Factory Asia' - in particular on intra-regional trade; (ii) the unilateral tariff-cutting that created 'Factory Asia' is not subject to WTO discipline...

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Trade Strategy, Investment and Exports: Another Look at East Asia

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The export booms in South Korea and Taiwan starting in the early 1960s are anomalous when compared with later export booms in other, non-East Asian countries such as Chile and Turkey. First, these booms have taken place in the context of comparatively small changes in relative prices in favour...

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Competition, Complementarity and Contagion in East Asia

Diwan, Ishac; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper explores to what extent the magnitude and speed of the contagion effects that materialized in East Asia in the second half of 1997 may have had "real" underpinnings, in the sense that the pattern of production, consumption and trade increased the vulnerability of East Asian countries...

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Pro-poor trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nicita, Alessandro; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Porto, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The objective of this paper is to estimate the potential pro-poor bias in the existing structure of protection in six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (i.e., whether it redistributes income from rich to poor households). We also explore the extent to which the barriers faced by SSA...

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Poor Countries or Poor People? Development Assistance and the New Geography of Global Poverty

Kanbur, Ravi; Sumner, Andy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

global poor for many years to come. This “new geography of global poverty”—with the mass of the poor living in stable, non … special weight be given to the poor in poor countries? How, if at all, should international agencies with a focus on poverty … greater debate on the new geography of global poverty. …

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Community-based Development and Poverty Alleviation: An Evaluation of China’s Poor Village Investment Program

Park, Albert; Wang, Sangui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory …

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