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Pattern of Agricultural Diversification in India
Jha, Brajesh; Kumar, Nitesh; Mohanty, Biswajit - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Agricultural diversification as measured by increase in the percent of non-food crops has grown; whereas diversification as measured by the concentration indices has remained unchanged in the recent decade. There have been significant changes in the pattern of agricultural diversification at the...
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Demand-Supply Trends and Projections of Food in India
Mittal, Surabhi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
The present paper presents the supply and demand trends of rice, wheat, total cereals, pulses, edible oil/oilseeds and sugar/sugarcane. It provides the demand and supply projections for food items during 2011, 2021 and 2026. These projections have been based on change in productivity levels,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365525
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Prospects for Environmental Trade under the Regional Process in South Asia : Evidence from SAPTA and Proposals for SAFTA
Mohanty, S. K.; Chaturvedi, Sachin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
The debate about identification of environmentally sensitive goods (ESGs) is highly complex as discussed in the economic literature. In the context of SAFTA, ESGs assumes significance as the region is significantly dependent on these products for trade. In this paper an attempt has been made to...
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Biosafety Protocol, International Trade and Agricultural Biotechnology : Policy Inferences for India
Chaturvedi, Sachin; Chawii, Lian - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
intensity of trade restrictions on the entry of these goods in countries like EU, Japan and South Korea. While India initiates … the various measures to implement the Biosafety protocol it is essential that specific trade policy responses are thought …, precautionary measures without affecting the trade facilitation measures. At the regional level, initiatives like Biosafety Clearing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363445
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Governance in India’s Public Transport Systems - Comparing Indian Railways and Airlines
Goyal, Ashima - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The paper examines the basic reasons and feasible remedies for organizational weakness, and the possible contribution of ownership, industry and management structure, leadership, social norms, and institutional incentives to alleviating the weaknesses in the Indian context. The arguments are...
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Can Imports Discipline Collusive Firms? Case of the Philippine Cement Industry
Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Applying a conjectural variations (CV) model introduced by Haskel and Scaramozzino (H&S model 1997), the paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on the Philippine cement industry where alleged cartel activities have taken place after the entry of the worlds Big Three cement firms :...
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Assessing Competition in Philippine Markets
Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper reviews the current empirical literature on competition and market structure of Philippine industries. It shows that weak competition is one of the fundamental factors that explain limited growth, productivity, and employment in the economy. Philippine experience has shown that...
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The Micro-foundations of Intertemporal Price Discrimination
Koh, Winston T.H. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
This paper investigates the optimality of intertemporal price discrimination for a durable-good monopoly in a model where infinitely-lived households face an intertemporal budget constraint, and consume both durable goods and non-durable goods. We prove that the optimal price of the durable good...
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Competition Policy in Indonesia
Dowling, John Malcolm - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
The Indonesian economy was dominated by the government in the decades of the 1970s and 1980s through its control of major mining, manufacturing and agricultural activities. Hill (2000) estimates that as much as 40% of non-agricultural GDP was accounted for by government entities in the late...
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Household Demand, Network Externality Effects and Intertemporal Price Discrimination
Koh, Winston T.H. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
This paper examines the optimality of intertemporal price discrimination when network externality effects are present in the consumption of a durable good. We conduct our study in two settings. In a model with two household types, utilities are dependent on the cumulative proportion of...
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