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Coordinating Healthcare and Pension Policies : An Exploratory Study
Bali, Azad Singh; Asher, Mukul G. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Rapid ageing of the population globally represents an unprecedented historical trend. As pension and healthcare costs are positively correlated with rising incomes, ageing, urbanization, and a shift from communicable to life-style diseases, managing these costs is a major challenge. There are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277971
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Coordinating Healthcare and Pension Policies : An Exploratory Study
Bali, Azad Singh; Asher, Mukul G. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Rapid ageing of the population globally represents an unprecedented historical trend. As pension and healthcare costs are positively correlated with rising incomes, ageing, urbanization, and a shift from communicable to life-style diseases, managing these costs is a major challenge. There are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278210
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Coordinating Healthcare and Pension Policies : An Exploratory Study
Bali, Azad Singh; Asher, Mukul G. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Rapid ageing of the population globally represents an unprecedented historical trend. As pension and healthcare costs are positively correlated with rising incomes, ageing, urbanization, and a shift from communicable to life-style diseases, managing these costs is a major challenge. There are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278250
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The Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Business Activity : A Survey of Firms in the People's Republic of China
Zhang, Yunling - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as a major player in the global economy and considers free trade … and intermediate goods. Immediately after its accession to the World Trade Organization in December 2001, the PRC adopted … a regional approach to trade and began negotiating and implementing FTAs. This paper analyzes the results of a survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278012
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The People’s Republic of China’s High-Tech Exports : Myth and Reality
Xing, Yuqing - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Trade statistics portray the People's Republic of China (PRC) as the largest exporter of high-tech products. In this … paper I will argue that the PRC’s leading position in high-tech exports is a myth created by outdated trade statistics … which are inconsistent with trade based on global supply chains. Current trade statistics mistakenly credit entire values of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278087
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How the iPhone Widens the United States Trade Deficit with the People’s Republic of China
Xing, Yuqing; Detert, Neal - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
) companies will not increase US exports, but on the contrary exacerbate the US trade deficit. The iPhone contributed US$1 ….9 billion to the US trade deficit with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Unprecedented globalization, well organized … contributed to rational firms such as Apple making business decisions that contributed directly to the US trade deficit. Global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278089
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The Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Business Activity : A Survey of Firms in the People's Republic of China
Zhang, Yunling - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as a major player in the global economy and considers free trade … and intermediate goods. Immediately after its accession to the World Trade Organization in December 2001, the PRC adopted … a regional approach to trade and began negotiating and implementing FTAs. This paper analyzes the results of a survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278103
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Preferentialism in Trade Relations : Challenges for the World Trade Organization
Low, Patrick - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
This paper argues that preferential trade agreements (PTAs) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) are not substitutes …, and while PTAs are without doubt here to stay, dispensing with a multilateral venue for doing business in trade matters is … apparent to date. The law of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/WTO has systematically fallen short in imposing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278105
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The People’s Republic of China’s High-Tech Exports : Myth and Reality
Xing, Yuqing - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Trade statistics portray the People's Republic of China (PRC) as the largest exporter of high-tech products. In this … paper I will argue that the PRC’s leading position in high-tech exports is a myth created by outdated trade statistics … which are inconsistent with trade based on global supply chains. Current trade statistics mistakenly credit entire values of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278135
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Preferentialism in Trade Relations : Challenges for the World Trade Organization
Low, Patrick - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
This paper argues that preferential trade agreements (PTAs) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) are not substitutes …, and while PTAs are without doubt here to stay, dispensing with a multilateral venue for doing business in trade matters is … apparent to date. The law of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/WTO has systematically fallen short in imposing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278213