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Impact of Services Trade Liberalization on Employment and People Movement in South Asia

Chanda, Rupa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011

Services have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector employment in South Asia and the extent to which countries in this region are proactively undertaking...

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Impact of Services Trade Liberalization on Employment and People Movement in South Asia

Chanda, Rupa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651623

Impact of Services Trade Liberalization on Employment and People Movement in South Asia

Chanda, Rupa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011

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Impact Assessment of National and Regional Policies Using the Philippine Regional General Equilibrium Model

Briones, Roehlano M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

For the Philippines, quantitative policy analysis should incorporate regional differences in welfare and economic structure, which arise partly from geographic constraints. However, existing CGE models offer limited analysis of regional effects or national impacts of region-specific...

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Can Imports Discipline Collusive Firms? Case of the Philippine Cement Industry

Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

Applying a conjectural variations (CV) model introduced by Haskel and Scaramozzino (H&S model 1997), the paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on the Philippine cement industry where alleged cartel activities have taken place after the entry of the worlds Big Three cement firms :...

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The Impact of Market Reforms on Competition, Structure and Performance of the Philippine Economy

Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

The paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on competition and productivity. Competition is the main channel through which trade liberalization affects economic performance. Competition fosters innovation and technology adoption which leads to increases in competitiveness and growth...

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Informality, Corruption and Trade Reform

Marjit, Sugata; Biswas, Amit K. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011

Stringent regulations coupled with corruption generate and sustain extra legal or informal transactions in the developing countries. Does trade related reform discourage informal activities and corruption? This paper attempts to analyze such a phenomenon. An import competing firm allocates...

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Trade Liberalization under New Realities

Ali, Syed Zahid; Anwar, Sajid - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

. Specifically a cut in import and export duties are found to be beneficial both in the short-run and the long-run. …

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Issues and Prospects on the Movement of Natural Persons and Human Capital Development in the Philippine-American Economic Relations

Tereso S. Tullao Jr.; Cortez, Michael Angelo A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

The United States of America is the top trading partner of the Philippines and also the top destination of highly skilled and professional Filipino workers. This paper explores the possibility of a free trade agreement (FTA) that covers the asymmetries of the two countries in labor, services and...

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Will New Trends in Foreign Direct Investment Change the Structure of Intra-industry Trade between China and Japan?

Tao, Tao - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

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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