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ILOs initiative to assess the impact of the financial crisis on employment and labour market of South Asian economies and develop alternative policy responses to mitigate the adverse social effects of the crisis on the world of work, especially the vulnerable groups, is timely and addresses a...
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Trade policy reforms which lead to changes in world prices of agricultural commodities or domestic policies aimed at affecting agricultural prices are often seen as causing a policy dilemma : a fall in agricultural prices benefits poor urban consumers but hurts poor rural producers, while a rise...
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The Harris-Todaro hypothesis replaces the equality of wages by the equality of expected wages as the basic equilibrium condition in a segmented but homogeneous labour market, and in so doing it generates an equilibrium level of urban unemployment when a mechanism for the determination of urban...
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The information and communication technology (ICT) revolution of the past 3 decades has transformed the world into an integrated marketplace. Today, producers and consumers alike are able to compare the prices of local businesses and worldwide sellers. For an increasing number of tradable goods,...
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The information and communication technology (ICT) revolution of the past 3 decades has transformed the world into an integrated marketplace. Today, producers and consumers alike are able to compare the prices of local businesses and worldwide sellers. For an increasing number of tradable goods,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010857584
This paper focuses on the pricing behavior of Japanese and United States firms selling their identical products in New York City, Chicago, Osaka, and Tokyo. The authors utilize some simple models of international price dispersion and market segmentation that generate predictions about testable...
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This paper discusses Japan’s strategy for Asian monetary integration. It argues that Japan faces three major policy … a leadership role in this endeavor. There is no question that Japan and the PRC are such potential leaders, and the two … monetary zone in Asia, Japan needs to make significant efforts at the national and regional levels and further strengthen …
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Asia is fast becoming the largest recipient of Japan's foreign direct investment (FDI). Within the Asian region, the … Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been the major investment destination of Japan. In the manufacturing sectors …, however, the investment flows from Japan to ASEAN—with Thailand being the largest recipient—has been declining. In …
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Japan’s changing structure of trade, FDI and economy that underlay policy changes. We argue that until the late 1990s Japan … Japan-US bilateralism sometimes resulted in “managed trade†and encountered negative perceptions of the US approach in … Japan, overall, it had a positive impact on the Japanese economy in opening domestic markets through various reforms and …
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will work independently of one another. When the Government of Japan announced its participation in the TPP negotiations in …
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