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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

Myanmarâ€™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 Myanmarâ€™s relations with the international community, and Western sanctions were largely lifted....

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Tracing CO2 emissions in global value chains

Meng, Bo; Peters, Glen; Wang, Zhi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

This paper integrates two lines of research into a unified conceptual framework: trade in global value chains and embodied emissions. This allows both value added and emissions to be systematically traced at the country, sector, and bilateral levels through various production network routes. By...

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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 …

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Do electricity supply constraints matter for comparative advantage? : a neoclassical approach

Sato, Hitoshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

This paper examines the extent to which electricity supply constraints could affect sectoral specialization. For this purpose, an empirical trade model is estimated from 1990-2008 panel data on 15 OECD countries and 12 manufacturing sectors. We find that along with Ricardian technological...

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An export strategy and technology networks in the Republic of Korea

Mizuno, Junko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

In Korea, trade with Japan has had a deficit since the normalization of Japan-Korea diplomatic relations in 1965. Koreaâ€™s trade balance with Japan has remained in deficit since then, although Korean companies have become bigger compared to Japanese companies. My hypothesis is that the...

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Trade obstacles, inventory level of inputs, and internationalization of enterprise activities : a comparison between Southeast Asia and Latin America

Ueki, Yasushi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of trade barriers such as customs clearance, subjective trade obstacles (customs and trade regulations), and inventory of inputs on the internationalization of enterprises in Southeast Asia and Latin America, using the World Bank's enterprise surveys. Empirical...

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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 …

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On the variety of Mexico's export goods

Ito, Tadashi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

This paper examines the evolution of the variety of Mexicoâ€™s export goods using disaggregated trade data. Both the …) methodology proposed in this paper show that NAFTA membership does not enhance the variety of Mexico's export goods. This finding … contrasts with NAFTA's positive association with the increase in export variety found in the literature. …

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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 â€˜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. …

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Bilateral tariff rates in international trade : finished goods versus intermediate goods

Hayakawa, Kazunobu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

In this paper, we examined back-and-forth international transactions through tariff reduction by estimating modified gravity equations for finished goods and intermediate goods separately. Our main findings are as follows. Exports of finished machinery products are negatively associated with not...

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