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Global production sharing and trade patterns in East Asia

Athukorala, Prema-chandra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

This paper analyzes trade patterns in East Asia, with special reference to the implications of the development of global production sharing. It examines the nature and extent of global production sharing and the role of East Asian countries within global production networks. It also highlights...

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Transition to a Market Economy and Export Performance in Vietnam

Athukorala, Prema-chandra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009

This paper examines Vietnam’s export performance in the process of economic transition. The key theme of analysis is the complementary role of domestic policy shifts and the ongoing changes in world trade patterns in determining trends and patterns of exports. The analysis yields clear...

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Australia-Thailand Trade: Has the FTA Made a Difference?

Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Kohpaiboon, Archanun - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

This paper examines the impact of the Australia-Thailand free trade agreement (TAFTA) on bilateral trade between the two countries, paying attention to the implications of rules of origins (RoO) and the utilization of tariff preferences. It is found that trade has expanded faster following TAFTA...

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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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Can FTAs Support the Growth or Spread of International Production Networks in Asia?

Menon, Jayant - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

Free trade agreements (FTAs) have been proliferating in Asia for more than a decade. International fragmentation of production and the resultant cross-border production networks have been growing for a much longer period. Although FTAs are not necessary for the formation of production networks,...

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'By a Silken Thread': regional banking integration and pathways to financial development in Japan's Great Recession

Hoffmann, Mathias; Okubo, Toshihiro - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

Regional differences in banking integration determined how Japan's Great Recession after 1990 spread across the country. We explain these differences with the emergence of silk reeling as the main export industry after Japan's opening to trade in the 19th century. The silk-exporting prefectures...

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Food security policy options for China: lessons from other countries

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

As China becomes more industrial and urbanized, it is likely to become more dependent over time on imports of (especially land-intensive) farm products, most notably livestock feedstuffs. If farmers are slow to adjust to their declining competitiveness, for example by obtaining off-farm...

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Implications for Indonesia of Asia's Rise in the Global Economy

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

This paper projects Indonesia's production and trade patterns to 2020 and 2030 in the course of global economic development under various growth and policy scenarios. We employ the GTAP model and Version 8.1 of the GTAP database, along with supplementary data from a range of sources to support...

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Determinants of risk sharing through remittances: cross-country evidence

Balli, Faruk; Rana, Faisal - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

risk sharing. Using a large sample of 86 developing countries for the period 1990–2010, we establish that remittance … inflows serve as an important channel through which risk sharing takes place in the developing world. Although the extent of … risk sharing on average stands at 3.3%, there is substantial cross-country variation found in our sample, ranging from 38 …

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Understanding Long-run Price Dispersion

Crucini, Mario J.; Yilmazkuday, Hakan - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

We use a unique panel of retail prices spanning 123 cities in 79 countries from 1990 to 2005, to uncover six novel properties of long-run international price dispersion. First, at the PPP level, virtually all (91.6%) of price dispersion is attributed to service-sector wages, consistent with a...

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