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Productivity in Australia's wholesale and retail trade

Johnston, Alan; Porter, Darrell; Cobbold, Trevor; … - EconWPA - 2001

Examines the productivity performance of the wholesale and retail trade sectors in light of their significant contribution to Australia’s record productivity performance in the 1990s. Fundamental changes in the nature and operations of wholesale trade, in particular, have brought marked...

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Review of TCF Assistance

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

The Commission was asked to evaluate current assistance arrangements to the TCF industries and provide policy options for post 2005 assistance and to report on a range of related matters that will affect the sector's long-term viability. The inquiry will also look at relevant workplace issues...

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Liberalising Trade in Textiles and Clothing: A Survey of Quantitative Studies

Walkenhorst, Peter - EconWPA - 2004

clothing market liberalisation. A number of analysts at national and international institutions have provided their assessments … level. Given the economic importance of the textile and clothing sector in some OECD and non-OECD countries and the … textiles and clothing production and trade as the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) is implemented. There is pressure …

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Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2003

EconWPA; Steering Committeee for the Review of … - 2004

Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2003 highlights the marked disparities between Indigenous and other Australians. While not the first report to assemble data on the social or economic status of Indigenous people, it is distinguished by the strategic framework within which the...

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Removing Tariffs on Goods Originating from Least Developed Countries

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

imports from these countries, particularly of clothing, and would have little impact on prices, incomes or jobs in Australia. …

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Whose Inflation? A Characterization of the CPI Plutocratic Gap

Ley, Eduardo - EconWPA - 2001

Prais (1958) showed that the standard CPI computed by most statistical agencies can be interpreted as a weighted average of household price indexes, where the weight of each household is determined by its total expenditures. In this paper, we analytically decompose the difference between the...

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MODEL OF INFLATION PROCESSES IN THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

Chernookiy, Valery - EconWPA - 2005

This paper discusses the econometric model of inflation processes in the Republic of Belarus which makes it possible to explain major factors determining the dynamics of the GDP deflator, consumer price index and producer price index during the period 1994 - 2003. For estimation of the model the...

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The Need for Pension Reform

Thakur, Subhash; Cerra, Valerie - EconWPA - 2005

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Financial Crises and the Presence of Foreign Banks

Tschoegl, Adrian E. - EconWPA - 2004

The paper distinguishes between the classic or traditional foreign banks with their emphasis on corporate and wholesale banking, and the innovators responding to transition, deregulation or crisis in emerging markets. The innovators come in three varieties—bettors, prospectors and...

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Sustaining Imperfectly Credible Trade Liberalization: Do the Rate of Tariff Reduction and the Degree of Labor Mobility Matter?

Tatum, Robert C. - EconWPA - 2005

Imperfectly credible trade liberalization can lead to balance of payment deterioration and a subsequent reversal of the reform. Therefore, this paper examines whether the likelihood of policy reversal depends on the rate of tariff reduction or the degree of labor mobility. The analysis shows...

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