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Review of TCF Assistance
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
. The inquiry will also look at relevant workplace issues and international trade developments. …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118929
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Removing Tariffs on Goods Originating from Least Developed Countries
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003
This paper was one input to the Australian Government’s decision to remove tariffs on imports from the least developed countries. The Commission’s analysis suggests that removing tariffs on imports from these countries could significantly boost imports from these countries, particularly of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119295
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Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World
Seguino, Stephanie - EconWPA - 2005
, regulation of trade and investment flows, and gender- sensitive public sector spending.. … effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412981
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Who Are Schooled in Urban Pakistan?
Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Ali, Karamat - EconWPA - 2005
Pakistan is severely disadvantaged by its failure to achieve higher levels of human development. Low enrolment thirty years ago is reflected in the lower educational level of today’s labor force, lower productivity and lower adaptation of technology. Even today less than half of the school-age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561544
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Trade policy, cross-border externalities and lobbies: do linked agreements enforce more cooperative outcomes?
Limão, Nuno - EconWPA - 2002
If, in international agreements, governments “link'' trade to environmental policy (or other issues with non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124914
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Apertura Comercial y Convergencia Regional en Mexico
Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2003
convergencia economica regional en Mexico y los efectos de la apertura comercial. In order to know the effects of trade openess in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125613
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The role of technology in determining skilled employment: an economywide approach
Laplagne, Patrick; Marshall, Peter; Stone, Susan - EconWPA - 2001
This paper compares the role of technological change with that of trade in explaining the increased demand for skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125725
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Though Arrow Says It’s Impossible, It Happens Everyday
Gani, Mohammad - EconWPA - 2004
Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem shows that transitive social preference is impossible. This note shows that in the general case of exchange, social preference need not be transitive. Indeed, it shows that social preference must be non-transitive to allow gainful exchange to maximize social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135127
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Factor Endowments, Trade Direction, and Growth Performances of the Americas and East Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Lai, Hongyi Harry - EconWPA - 1997
Factor-endowment based trade with the leading economy helps to explain the differing development performances of the …-endowment based trade and economic ties with the secondary advanced economy (first the U.S. and then Japan) played important roles in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062412