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Myanmar's apparel industry in the new international environment : prospects and challenges
Kudo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
Myanmar’s apparel industry had long been denied access to Western markets due to sanctions against its military government. The birth of a "civilian" government in March 2011 improved Myanmar’s relations with the international community, and Western sanctions were largely lifted....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147336
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The Shrimp Export Boom and Small-Scale Fishermen in Myanmar
Okamoto, Ikuko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
This paper examines the impact of the recent shrimp export boom in Myanmar on the economic state of small …-scale fishermen. Results indicate that there has been an active increase in shrimp fishing stimulated by expanding export demand. With …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005222504
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The middle-income trap from the viewpoint of trade structures
Kumagai, Satoru - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
regression analyses on the relationship between income level and net export ratios for different types of goods for trapped and … the flying-geese model for non-trapped countries while trapped countries tend to depend on the export of primary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960464
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Trade policies and trade mis-reporting in Myanmar
Kubo, Koji - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
partner countries indicate deficits. Such discrepancies in mirror trade statistics are analyzed in connection with the ‘export … export-tax-deducted export earnings. Under this policy, the recorded imports and exports of the private sector have been …-reporting in accordance with the supply and demand of the export earnings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650722
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Exchange Rate Volatility, Financial Constraints and Trade: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Firms
Héricourt, Jérôme; Poncet, Sandra - CESifo - 2013
This paper studies how firm-level export performance is affected by Real Exchange Rate (RER) volatility and … investigates whether this effect depends on existing financial constraints. Our empirical analysis relies on export data for more … this negative impact, especially on the intensive margin of export. These results provide micro-founded evidence suggesting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010671572
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Analysis on International Trade of CLM Countries
Lwin, Nu Nu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009
Since their accession to AFTA, trade volumes of CLM countries have being grown rapidly while their trade patterns and directions have significantly changed. Recognizing the importance of international trade in CLM economies, this study attempts to analyze the trade patterns of CLM countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522408
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Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Transfer and Exports in Developing Countries
Yang, Lei; Maskus, Keith E. - CESifo - 2008
We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break intoexport markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406245
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Exports and Property Prices in France: Are they Connected?
Egert, Balazs; Kierzenkowski, Rafal - CESifo - 2010
France has seen a marked deterioration in its export performance in the last 10 years or so. Previous empirical … research pointed out that weak export performance was due to i) vigorous domestic demand; ii) lower mark-ups due to head …-to-head competition with Germany; iii) low non-price competitiveness of French export goods; iv) offshoring of entire production processes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583670
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Myanmar's non-resource export potential after the lifting of economic sanctions : a gravity model analysis
Kubo, Koji - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
disease". This study projects Myanmar's export potential by calculating counterfactual export values with an augmented gravity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134410
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Firms' Exporting Behavior under Quality Constraints
Hallak, Juan Carlos; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2011
We develop a model of international trade with two dimensions of firm heterogeneity and export quality constraints that … exporter premia cannot be rationalized through these models as they imply no variation in export status once size is controlled … strong support for the model. We also investigate the sources of export quality constraints using firm-level trade shipment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010562121