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The Evolution and Utilization of the GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism
Chang, Pao-li - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper provides a theoretical framework of dispute settlement to explain the surge in blocking incidence of GATT panel reports during the 1980s and the variations in withdrawn incidence versus total disputes across different decades of the GATT regime. The study first suggests the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365115
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An Open Services Regime - Recipe for Jobless Growth?
Karmakar, Suparna - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Development economists disfavour with services as a viable engine of growth has been expressed both through theoretical and empirical analysis. One of the stylized facts of development economics is that share of services in employment increases only with the rise in per capita incomes. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365458
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Policy Reforms and Institutional Weakness : Closing The Gap.
Llanto, Gilberto M.; Gonzalez, Eduardo T. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The promise and potential of the Philippine economy has remained unrealized notwithstanding the countrys talented labor force, skilled professionals and relatively abundant resources. What ails the Philippines? This paper argues that the incompetence and downright corruption of Philippine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363275
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Financial Crisis as a Catalyst of Legal Reforms : The Case of Asia
Kawai, Masahiro; Schmiegelow, Henrik - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
This paper discusses how financial crises in emerging Asia and Japan worked as catalysts for legal reforms. The responses of six Asian countries with different legal histories to financial crises that posed similar challenges are of both legal and economic interest. We first provide a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134347
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Financial Crisis as a Catalyst of Legal Reforms : The Case of Asia
Kawai, Masahiro; Schmiegelow, Henrik - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
This paper discusses how financial crises in emerging Asia and Japan worked as catalysts for legal reforms. The responses of six Asian countries with different legal histories to financial crises that posed similar challenges are of both legal and economic interest. We first provide a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134390
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The Economics of Price Scissors : An Empirical Investigation for China.
Lin, Justin Yifu; Yu, Miaojie - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
agricultural rationing, we first check if the model stands up to China's data from 1949-1992, we find that the importance of … consumption is also less than that of investment. Such findings are consistent with the reality of China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363296
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How Much Do We Know about the Impact of the Economic Downturn on the Employment of Migrants?
Meng, Xin; Kong, Sherry Tao; Zhang, Dandan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The employment shock of late 2008 in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363347
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Estimating the impacts of demographic and policy changes on pension deficit : a simple method and application to China
Yi, Zeng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
employment rate. Our illustrative application to China shows that gradually increasing the current low minimum age of retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363357
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CHINA’S PARTICIPATION IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL NEGOTIATIONS
Tian, Huifang; Whalley, John - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
In the paper we discuss China's participation in both the 2009 Copenhagen negotiations on a post-Kyoto global climate … change regime currently under way and out beyond Copenhagen in further negotiations likely to follow. China is now both the …. In the Copenhagen negotiation, there will be strong pressure on China to take on emissions reduction commitments and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363371
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Bangladesh Apparels Export to the US Market - An Examination of Her Competitiveness vis-à-vis China
Rahman, Mustafizur; Anwar, Asif - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
The rise of China has major repercussions for a country such as Bangladesh which has emerged as an important player in … more than one player. Evidently, impact and implications of competition from China will have to be examined and scrutinized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363373