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Lessons from the European Spaghetti Bowl
Baldwin, Richard - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
European economic integration fascinates and inspires for the way it brought peace to a continent torn by violent and long-standing rivalries. The lessons from Europe, however, cannot be applied directly as the degree of the European Union’s supranationality is unthinkable elsewhere. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278077
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JAPAN’S APPROACH TO ASIA PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Drysdale, Peter - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 1998
Since emerging as a leading industrial economy, Japan has played an important role in promoting Asia Pacific economic cooperation. Japan has been instrumental in every major initiative in economic cooperation in the region over the past three decades, including the Asia Pacific Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363405
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The Mekong River Basic Development : The Realities and Prospects of Korea's Participation
Cheong, Jae Wan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 1999
At this time, a move resumed to develop the basin of the Mekong River, the largest river in Southeast Asia and a lifetime in the region, following suspension of such a movement in the 1950s. Activities to develop the Mekong River Basin have resumed from the first half of the 1990s, as the area...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363520
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Agricultural Trade Between the Philippines and the US : Status, Issues and Prospects
Cabanilla, Liborio S. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
The paper describes the environment under which RP-US Agricultural trade currently operates. It also highlights key issues affecting current trade flows between the Philippines and the US, and provides background information vital for future bilateral agricultural negotiations with the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363639
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PC Penetration in Cambodia
Dutta, Madhurjya Kumar; Chann, Sokros; Marcus, Tyler; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
high prices to end consumers, hampering wider scale PC adoption and encouraging informal imports. Informal imports hinder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365161
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State of Trade and Investments in the Philippines
Balboa, Jenny D.; Medalla, Erlinda M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
The last two decades have witnessed a tremendous increase in global trade and investments. This has been followed by a shift in the pattern of FDI inflow, which had gradually become more favorable to the developing countries. Consequently, this resulted in an increase in competition among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365166
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Institutions, Wages and Inequality : The Case of Europe and its Periphery (1500-1899)
Chor, Davin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
This paper explores the long-run relationship between institutions and wage outcomes in Europe and its periphery. I find that cities that exercised stronger institutional protection of private property experienced : (i) higher levels of both skilled and unskilled real wages, as well as (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363722
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Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) : Legal Aspects of Regional Trade Integration
Shadikhodjaev, Sherzod - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
The Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) is an international economic organization designed to effectively promote the formation of a customs union and a single economic space among six CIS countries : Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Moldova, Ukraine, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363437
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Analysis of the Impact of Changes in the Prices of Rice and Fuel on Poverty in the Philippines
Reyes, Celia M.; Sobrevinas, Alellie B.; Bancolita, Joel; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
The study aims to assess the impact of rising prices of rice and fuel on poverty in the Philippines. In particular, the … study confirm that the impact of increasing prices of rice and fuel vary across different groups of households depending on … from the recent increases in the prices of rice and fuel. In response to higher prices, households adopted different coping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363617
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A Significant Shift in Causal Relations of Money, Income, and Prices in Pakistan : The Price Hikes in the Early 1970s
Husain, Fazal; Rashid, Abdul - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
nominal money and nominal income, and between nominal money and prices using the annual data set from 1959-60 to 2003 … money in the Pakistani economy, as it is found to be leading variables in changing prices without any feedback. In the case …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363999