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Policies for Industrial Learning in China and Mexico
Gallagher, Kevin P.; Shafaeddin, Mehdi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Previous work has shown that the results of both China and Mexicos export-led market reforms over the past quarter … century have been strikingly different. In contrast to China, Mexico has not managed to increase the value added of its … exports of manufactured goods and has subsequently had a difficult time competing with China in world markets. Building on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365144
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CARP Institutional Assessment in a Post-2008 Transition Scenario : Towards a new Rural Development Architecture
Adriano, Fermin D. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
The main objective of the paper is to explore possible institutional arrangements among the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) implementing agencies in a post-2008 transition scenario for CARP. There were three reasons cited for the implementation of the agrarian reform program, namely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363545
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Agricultural Diversification and the Fruits and Vegetables Sub-Sector : Policy Issues and Development Constraints in the Philippines
Briones, Roehlano M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Fruits and vegetables comprise a large and dynamic sub-sector within Philippine agriculture. However the countrys agricultural development strategy continues to emphasize traditional crops. Evidence points to a significant role for fruits and vegetables in agricultural diversification and rural...
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The Limited Promise of Agricultural Trade Liberalization
Wise, Timothy A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
It has become an article of faith in international trade negotiations that farmers in developing countries have much to gain from agricultural trade liberalization. This paper assesses the evidence for such claims. It concludes that the promise of agricultural trade liberalization is overstated,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365150
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Agricultural Demand Linkages and Growth Multiplier in Rural Indonesia
Suryahadi, Asep; Suryadarma, Daniel; Sumarto, Sudarno; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
In a fast urbanizing Indonesia, the rural sector still plays an important role in the countrys economy. Although declining, the majority of the population still live and find employment in rural areas. However, rural areas lag behind urban areas in many aspects. As a result, around 80% of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365273
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THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC REFORMS ON INDIAN MANUFACTURERS : EVIDENCE FROM A SMALL SAMPLE SURVEY
Siggel, Eckhard; Agrawal, Pradeep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Although there has been much theorising on the impact of Indias economic reforms of 1991 on Indian manufacturers, there is hardly any previous study that has taken up the task of actually asking the manufacturing firms as to what the true impact of economic reforms has been on them. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363558
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Acceleration of Economic Reform in Japan and the Role of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy
Hosen, Mitsuo - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Creation of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy (CEFP) made Japans economic and fiscal policy making more transparent, consistent and coherent. This new institutional arrangement accelerated structural reform and improved economic and fiscal policy making in general, thus contributing to...
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Indian Capital Control Liberalization : Evidence from NDF Markets
Hutchison, Michael; Kendall, Jake; Pasricha, Gurnain; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
The Indian government has taken a number of incremental measures to liberalise legal and administrative impediments to international capital movements in recent years. This paper analyses the extent to which the effectiveness of capital controls in India, measured by the domestic less net...
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Central Asia’s Transition After Fifteen Years : Growth and Policy Choices
Dowling, Malcolm; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper presents a coherent and systematic analysis of the collapse and subsequent revival of the Central Asian Republics (CARs) since 1990. The focus is on the pattern of growth and structural change during the cycle of decline and subsequent revival in the CARs which have been inadequately...
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China’s economic reform : Success, problems and challenges
Fancass, He - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The rise of China is a major episode in world economic history. From the late 1970s, China pursued market …-oriented reforms and open policy. During the past two decades, China experienced extraordinary growth. Since 1978, GDP growth rates … (South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong and Taiwan province of China) in their fast growing period. In a short span of time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363966