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Innovations as Response to Failures in Rural Financial Markets

Llanto, Gilberto M.; Gabrielle Roanne LaviÃƒÂ±a - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

The paper reviews the innovations developed by some financial institutions to meet the challenges of microfinance and …

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Impact of Microfinance on Rural Households in the Philippines

Kondo, Toshio; Aniceto Orbeta Jr.; Dingcong, Clarence; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

quasi-experimental design with incoming clients of randomly selected participating microfinance institutions as the … islands (Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao) and 38 microfinance institutions consisting of three types - banks, cooperatives, and … for microfinance programs to be effective as a poverty-alleviation tool there is a need to review and constantly monitor …

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What Do We Expect from Our Friends?

Leider, Stephen; Mobius, Markus M.; Rosenblat, Tanya; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

We conduct a field experiment in a large real-world social network to examine how subjects expect to be treated by their friends and by strangers who make allocation decisions in modified dictator games. While recipients beliefs accurately account for the extent to which friends will choose more...

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INFORMAL WAGE AND FORMAL SECTOR PRODUCTIVITY : THEORY AND EVIDENCES FROM INDIA

Maiti, Dibyendu; Marjit, Sugata - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

We express a doubt on the conventional wisdom namely, of a positive relationship between wage and productivity, of a formal sector firm in a developing economy where the firm can either go for subcontracting to the informal sector to minimize wage cost along with apprehension of extra-legal cost...

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Institutions Matter : The Case of Vietnam

Tran, Thi Bich; Grafton, R. Quentin; Kompas, Tom - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

The paper investigates institutional reforms in Vietnam and their impact on the economic performance of firms. Using the provincial competitiveness index 2006 (PCI06) and firm-level data in Vietnam in 2005, the results show that provincial competitiveness is economically and statistically...

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Emerging Multinationals : Trends, Patterns and Determinants of Outward Investment by Indian Enterprises

Kumar, Nagesh - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

This paper has analyzed the trends, patterns and determinants of outward Investments by Indian enterprises that have increased notably since the onset of reforms. It finds that the sharp rise in outward investments since 1991 has been accompanied by a shift in geographical and sectoral focus of...

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The Economics of Outsourcing in a De-integrating Industry

Ghani, Jawaid Abdul; Rana, Arif Iqbal - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

Many large firms in low scale economy industries are actively considering outsourcing options, in the face of competition from smaller more efficient players. Based on a review of the theoretical literature and a case-study of outsourcing decisions at two large vertically integrated footwear...

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East Asian Steel Projections for the 1990s Revisited

Drysdale, Peter; Garvey, Ben - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2003

In 1989 a research team from the AustraliaJapan Research Centre (AJRC) undertook a study of the prospects for the East Asian steel industry for the 1990s. The aim was to assess the impact of developments in the region on industry strategies in Australia. This paper reviews those projections to...

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The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Information and Communication Technologies

Rao, C Niranjan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2004

The paper starts by recapitulating the basic arguments provided by economic theory to explain the existence of the patent system. The paper then concentrates on the three important ICT industries viz., telecommunication equipment, computer hardware and semiconductor industries. The issues...

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Management Practices and Firm Performance in Japanese and Korean Firms

Lee, Keun; Miyagawa, Tsutomu; Kabe, Shigesaburo; Lee, … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

The US economy had accelerated economic growth since the late 1990s. At first, many economists and policy makers believed that the rapid growth in the IT industry and IT investment contributed to the acceleration in US economic growth and many advanced countries supported the IT industry and IT...

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