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Causality Relationships between Total Exports with Agricultural and Manufacturing GDP in Tanzania

Shombe, Nicolaus Herman - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

This paper, investigates causal relationships among agriculture, manufacturing and export in Tanzania by using time … variables out of three jointly cause the third one. There is also some evidence that manufacturing does not cause export and … agriculture. Regarding cointegration, pairwise agricultural GDP and export are cointegrated, export and manufacture are …

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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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Sri Lanka's Trade Policies: Back to Protectionism

Pursell, Garry; Ahsan, F.M. Ziaul - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

In 1977 Sri Lanka was the first of the South Asian countries to decisively move away from the protectionist import-substitution trade policies that for many years had damaged their economic efficiency and hobbled their economic growth. Albeit with back-tracking episodes, Sri Lanka's liberalising...

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Do export promotion agencies increase exports?

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Lee, Hyun-Hoon; Park, Donghyun - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

In this paper, we examine the role of export promotion agencies (EPAs) in promoting exports from Japan and Korea …

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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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Tariff reductions and labor demand elasticities : evidence from Chinese firm-level data

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

heterogenous firm model in which firms are allowed to export their products and to use imported intermediate inputs. The model …

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Trade policy substitution: Theory and evidence from Specific Trade Concerns

Beverelli, Cosimo; Boffa, Mauro; Keck, Alexander - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2014

We investigate to what extent the probability that a Specific Trade Concern (STC) is raised in the WTO against a Member in a given sector is affected by past reductions in applied tariffs. Employing an identification strategy based on 'new measures', we find evidence of a substitution of...

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Intra-regional trade between China, Japan, and Korea : before and after the financial crisis

Kuroiwa, Ikuo; Ozeki, Hiromichi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010

East Asian economies have been heavily dependent on the U.S. and EU markets, especially for the export of final goods … of the East Asian economies which have adopted an export-led growth strategy. Such vulnerability needs to be addressed to …

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International Competitiveness of Manufacturing Firms in sub-Saharan Africa

Fukunishi, Takahiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2004

As the success of East Asian countries has shown, labor-intensive industry is recognized to lead economic growth in the early stages of development, utilizing relatively low labor costs. This same growth process has already started in South and South East Asian LDCs since the mid-1990s. However,...

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