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Impact of Services Trade Liberalization on Employment and People Movement in South Asia
Chanda, Rupa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Services have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector employment in South Asia and the extent to which countries in this region are proactively undertaking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651620
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Impact of Services Trade Liberalization on Employment and People Movement in South Asia
Chanda, Rupa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Services have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector employment in South Asia and the extent to which countries in this region are proactively undertaking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651623
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Impact of Services Trade Liberalization on Employment and People Movement in South Asia
Chanda, Rupa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Services have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector employment in South Asia and the extent to which countries in this region are proactively undertaking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651631
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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
For the Philippines, quantitative policy analysis should incorporate regional differences in welfare and economic structure, which arise partly from geographic constraints. However, existing CGE models offer limited analysis of regional effects or national impacts of region-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363610
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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 :...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363771
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The Impact of Market Reforms on Competition, Structure and Performance of the Philippine Economy
Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
The paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on competition and productivity. Competition is the main channel through which trade liberalization affects economic performance. Competition fosters innovation and technology adoption which leads to increases in competitiveness and growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365096
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Informality, Corruption and Trade Reform
Marjit, Sugata; Biswas, Amit K. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Stringent regulations coupled with corruption generate and sustain extra legal or informal transactions in the developing countries. Does trade related reform discourage informal activities and corruption? This paper attempts to analyze such a phenomenon. An import competing firm allocates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365145
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Trade Liberalization under New Realities
Ali, Syed Zahid; Anwar, Sajid - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
The last decade has witnessed significant influx of direct foreign investment in developing countries. The increased flow of foreign investment has contributed to the ability of developing countries to produce import competing manufactured goods by combining imported and domestically produced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365155
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Issues and Prospects on the Movement of Natural Persons and Human Capital Development in the Philippine-American Economic Relations
Tereso S. Tullao Jr.; Cortez, Michael Angelo A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
The United States of America is the top trading partner of the Philippines and also the top destination of highly skilled and professional Filipino workers. This paper explores the possibility of a free trade agreement (FTA) that covers the asymmetries of the two countries in labor, services and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365288
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Vulnerability to Chronic Energy Deficiency : An Empirical Analysis of Women in Uttar Pradesh, India
Ramachandran, Maithili; Kumar, K.S. Kavi; Viswanathan, … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
region or country. That these rates in India have been rather high particularly for women is a matter of concern. As Floud … health status. Due to limited information base on BMI very few studies in India have analysed the determinants of CED (which … status). This paper attempts to do so based on a sample of ever-married women in the age group of 15-49 years in the North …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363608