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During the post-1990 period, services sector inmost of the Asian economies witnessed growth fuelled by substantial changes in the financial sector of these economies. The insurance industry, in most of the Asian economies, ASEAN and SAARC economies in particular, was publicly owned and remained...
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-level data set from Japan, we show that the turnout effect on the amounts of intergovernmental fiscal transfers is indeed …
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This paper provides structural estimates of heterogeneous returns to work experience for Japanese married women. A dynamic model of labor force participation is used to account for dynamic self-selection into employment. Heterogeneity is incorporated into the model in a way that allows for the...
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when he and his Singaporean counterpart, Goh Chok Tong, signed the Japan-Singapore Economic Partnership Agreement (JSEPA … global trade liberalisation. This paper aims to examine how and why Japan and Singapore decided to pursue FTAs, what … mainly through Singapores initial offer to exclude agricultural products from tariff elimination. But Japan faced problems in …
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Since emerging as a leading industrial economy, Japan has played an important role in promoting Asia Pacific economic … cooperation. Japan has been instrumental in every major initiative in economic cooperation in the region over the past three …
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According to simulation results, the formation of an FTA would substantially improve Koreas and Japans trade balances, while China would experience a sizeable increase in its trade deficit. This indicates that simple barriers (NTBs) within a short period of time is not a feasible approach for...
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changing structure of trade, FDI and economy that underlay policy changes. We argue that until the late 1990s Japan adopted a … Japan-US bilateralism sometimes resulted in managed trade and encountered negative perceptions of the US approach in Japan … integration of Japan with the Asian and global economies. …
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With a declining birthrate and an aging population, Japan is increasingly finding itself in deeper financial …
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Given former Prime Minister Koizumis reformist zeal, agriculture might have been expected to be high on his list of targets for so-called structural reform. However, an investigation of the record of his administration on agricultural policy reveals only modest achievements in terms of policy...
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Islands of Japan, and on the north by Jichu Island of the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the Yellow Sea, and connected with the … East China Sea area between China and Japan began to surface. After the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea … came into force in 1994, divergence between China and Japan in the delimitation of the continental shelf of the East China …
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