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Better Together – or not? Community Participation, Consumption Smoothing and Household Head Employment in Indonesia
Begazo-Gomez, Tania; Fuchs, Alan; Perdana, Ari - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper analyzes whether participation in formal and informal community activities helped household in Indonesia mitigating the impact of the 1998 economic crisis and increasing the probability of household head being employed. The paper uses the 1997 and 2000 round of Indonesian Family Life...
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Does it Pay to Participate?
Perdana, Ari; Matakos, Kostas; Radin, Elizabeth - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper analyzes whether participation in formal and informal community activities helped household in Indonesia mitigating the impact of the 1998 economic crisis. The paper uses the 1997 and 2000 round of Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) to capture the impact of economic crisis on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365227
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Navigating a Changing World Economy : ASEAN, the People’s Republic of China, and India
Petri, Peter A.; Zhai, Fan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
Most projections envision continued rapid growth in the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and India (collectively, ACI) over the next two decades. By 2030, they could quadruple their output, virtually eliminate extreme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278142
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Overlapping Free Trade Agreements of Singapore-USA-Japan : A Computational Analysis
Chong, Soo Yuen; Hur, Jung - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The proliferation of overlapping free trade agreements (FTA) in the recent years has led to hub-and-spokes (HAS) throughout the world. Being avid subscribers to FTAs, many countries in the Asia-Pacific region including the USA, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Australia have become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363479
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Impact Assessment of National and Regional Policies Using the Philippine Regional General Equilibrium Model
Briones, Roehlano M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
) completion of the tariff reform program in agriculture will contract some import-competing sectors in lagging regions, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363610
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The Macro-Economic and Sectoral Impacts of HIV and AIDS in India
Ojha, Vijay P.; Pradhan, Basanta K. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
The adverse economic impact of HIV and AIDS occurs at three levels : the individual/household, sector, and national or macro-levels. In the early phase of the epidemic, the impacts at the sector and macro-levels are rather mild and, hence, not easily measurable or quantifiable. So far in India,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363935
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Socioeconomic Impacts of Cross- Border Transport Infrastructure Development in South Asia
Gilbert, John; Banik, Nilanjan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Although the overall economic performance of economies in South Asia in recent years has been impressive, there is concern that an aging and increasingly inadequate infrastructure may limit the potential for further growth and economic development. A critical infrastructure component is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365177
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Prospects of Wheat and Sugar Trade between India and Pakistan : A Simple Welfare Analysis
Burki, Abid A.; Khan, Mushtaq A.; Hussain, S.M. Turab - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper asks how opening up of wheat and sugar trade between two nuclear neighbours, India and Pakistan, would … the basis of real world data of FY2005, and for sugar, based on data for FY 2000-01. In both these years, India had a net … surplus and Pakistan had a net deficit for both wheat and sugar. We show that among other things, favourable weather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363486
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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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Non-tariff Barriers Affecting India’s Exports
Mehta, Rajesh - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
The purpose of this paper is first of all to highlight that Indian exports do face non-tariff barriers in major export …
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