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This Selected Issues paper for Kenya, Uganda, and United Republic of Tanzania highlights their private sector credit markets, identifies their main obstacles in promoting credit to the private sector, and suggests a reform strategy. If the East African Community (EAC) countries decide to pursue...
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This Selected Issues paper for Algeria analyzes the potential economic impact of Algeria’s Association Agreement with the European Union (AAEU). The paper lays out the major elements of Algeria’s AAEU and makes a comparison with other AAEUs. It discusses the potential economic...
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The Selected Issues paper provides an overview of trends, performance export growth, value added, and employment …
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In the literature on exports and investment, most productive firms are seen to invest abroad. In the Helpman et al …
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Over the past two years, economic activity in Palau has been slowed. Executive Directors welcomed the authorities’ disciplined policies, strong financial sector legislation, and prudent management of foreign grants. They encouraged the authorities to build a strong fiscal consolidation...
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This Selected Issues paper on the Republic of Kosovo’s 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights growth and Kosovo’s external environment. In the wake of the global financial crisis, Kosovo’s economic growth slowed but remained positive, while most other Western Balkans...
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It is generally believed that Japan's cost-oriented and export-oriented direct investment has introduced a bilateral … intra-industry trade pattern in ChinaJapan trade through which China imports accessories from Japan, processes them and … exports the product to Japan. Based on investment and trade data in the machinery sector, this paper discusses whether Japan …
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Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) into China is analysed using an FDI model that accounts for different modes of … with an increase in FDI by reducing uncertainty in the investment environment. The performance of Japanese FDI into China … 1988 and Chinas WTO accession in 2001 were events that helped reduce uncertainty in bilateral investment, with the latter …
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increasing the rate of economic growth. Little attention, however, has been devoted to confirm or reject this link for China …
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for Chinese domestic industries. At present, China has stepped into the new phase of industrial clusters upgrading …
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