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The Role of Trade Credit for Small Firms : An Implication from Japan’s Banking Crisis
Fukuda, Shin-ichi; Kasuya, Munehisa; Akashi, Kentaro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of trade credit during the banking crisis in Japan. Trade credit is one of the most important sources of short-term external finance for small firms. Previous literature has focused mainly on the substitution of bank loans for trade credit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363880
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What is to be Done with Disasters?A Literature Survey on Disaster Study and Response
Marianti, Ruly - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
of disaster, classification of calamities, and some themes (risk, vulnerability, ageing, gender) that are important in … dominated the national and international media for weeks, confronted us with our weaknesses in times of disaster. This lead us … systematic overview on various important issues and debates on efforts in understanding and managing disaster. This paper is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363585
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Mainstreaming the Adaptations and Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor due to Climate Change
Ranganathan, C. R.; Palanisami, K.; Kakumanu, K. R.; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Many rural poor people in developing countries depend on agriculture and are highly influenced by climatic change. Hence, sustainable livelihood approaches are used at both policy and project level to initiate new poverty reduction activities and modify existing activities to improve livelihood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651633
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Mainstreaming the Adaptations and Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor due to Climate Change
Ranganathan, C. R.; Palanisami, K.; Kakumanu, K. R.; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Many rural poor people in developing countries depend on agriculture and are highly influenced by climatic change. Hence, sustainable livelihood approaches are used at both policy and project level to initiate new poverty reduction activities and modify existing activities to improve livelihood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651637
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Gender Inclusion in Climate Change Adaptation
Aoyagi, Midori; Suda, Eiko; Shinada, Tomomi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
disaster and interview three female agricultural workers in Japan. In the recovery process after a natural disaster, women are … risk of either losing their jobs or being demoted. The results of the interviews demonstrate the recent empowerment of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653182
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CLIMATE SENSITIVITY OF INDIAN AGRICULTURE
Kumar, K.S. Kavi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Climate change impact studies on agriculture are broadly based on agronomic-economic approach and Ricardian approach. The Ricardian approach, similar in principle to the Hedonic pricing approach of environmental valuation, has received significant attention due to its elegance and also some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363542
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Climate Change and Energy Security - Obama’s Historic Challenge
Takagi, Yuji - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
It was a long 35 years ago that Richard Nixon proclaimed, Our national goal should be to meet our own energy needs without depending on any foreign sources. Even now that goal of energy security remains elusive although it has occupied an attention almost continuously. Under the sharp increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364025
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Climate Change, Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Rights
Srinivas, K. Ravi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Technology development and transfer has been identified as a key element in the Bali Action Plan. In the negotiations on a global climate treaty the developing nations have put forth ideas and plans to ensure that intellectual property rights (IPRs) do not become a barrier to transfer of climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365059
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Optimal Tariff Calculations in Tariff Games with Climate Change Considerations
Dong, Yan; Whalley, John - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
We discuss whether or not the introduction of climate change considerations into Nash tariff games increases or reduces post retaliation tariffs. We briefly discuss how climate change considerations can be introduced into computational trade models. We then calculate optimal tariffs in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365148
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DATA REQUIREMENTS AND STATISTICAL CHALLENGES FOR DESIGNING CLIMATE FRIENDLY ENERGY POLICIES IN MULTILATERAL FRAMEWORK
Sankar, U. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
India needs reliable good quality database and methodologies for designing, implementing and monitoring climate-friendly policies. This paper focuses on the database needs for policies in the context of multilateral frameworks. It provides suggestions to the Central Statistical Organization (CSO...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365277