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The Missing Middle
Krueger, Anne O. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Though recent economic growth in India has increased productivity and living standards significantly, the need for more growth and more reform remains. Rapid growth of unskilled labor-intensive manufacturing combined with growth of productivity in agriculture is necessary to enable a more...
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Having Customers Share The Perception Of Quality Differences - One Century Of Debates About Quality Assessments On The French Wine Market
Geneviève Teil - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The wine market is a pretty paradoxical research object for the economical and marketing studies. In France alone, every year, hundreds of thousands of new brand differentiated products are marketed. How can so many brands survive to any rationalization process? One could think this situation to...
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Paradox of Credibility
Jung, Hanjoon Michael - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
In an information transmission situation, a senders concern for its credibility could endow itself with an invisible … power to control the detected. In this case, the sender can achieve its favored outcome without losing its credibility … its credibility could result in less truthful signals from the sender and worse payoffs to the receiver. This is the …
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The Global Economic Recession and Industrial Structure : Evidence from Four Asian Dragons
Hsieh, Wen-jen - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
The collapse of exports that has attended the current global economic recession threatens the export-led economic growth of the four Asian dragons. To better understand the economic performances and future prospects of the four dragons, this paper first examines the economic structural...
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The Global Economic Recession and Industrial Structure : Evidence from Four Asian Dragons
Hsieh, Wen-jen - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
The collapse of exports that has attended the current global economic recession threatens the export-led economic growth of the four Asian dragons. To better understand the economic performances and future prospects of the four dragons, this paper first examines the economic structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652199
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The WTO Negotiations on Industrial Tariffs : What is at Stake for Developing Countries?
Akyüz, Yilmaz - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
This paper focuses on the implications of the negotiations on industrial tariffs for longer term industrialization in developing countries. It begins with a brief overview of the NAMA framework that is followed by a review of the historical experience of todays advanced countries regarding the...
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Industrial Growth And Environmental Degradation : A Case Study Of Tiruppur Textile Cluster
Nelliyat, Prakash - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The rapid economic growth achieved after globalization by most of the developing countries, has imposed considerable social costs and has become a major threat to sustainable development. However it is also extremely important for developing countries to achieve a high level of economic growth...
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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...
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Interface Between Competition Policy and Infrastructure Regulation in the Philippines
Medalla, Erlinda M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
This short paper attempts to lay down the framework and basic principles for the optimum interface between competition policy and infrastructure regulation. Competition policy should address exclusionary and exploitative acts and discipline firms when such acts are committed. In certain cases,...
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Growth Diagnostics in Pakistan
Qayyum, Abdul; Khawaja, Idrees; Hyder, Asma - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Following the Hausmann, et al. (2005) methodology, we attempt to identify the constraints to growth in Pakistan. We argue that governance failure and institutional shortcomings are the heart of the matter : corruption is rampant, judicial independence is low, educational institutions do not...
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