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Production networks in the Asia-Pacific region : facts and policy implications

Hiratsuka, Daisuke - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

Production networks have been extensively developed in the Asia-Pacific region. This paper employs two micro-level approaches, case studies and econometric analysis, using JETRO's firm surveys which investigate Japanese affiliates operating in Southeast Asia. These two approaches found that...

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Development of Border Economic Zones in Thailand: Expansion of Border Trade and Formation of Border Economic Zones

Tsuneishi, Takao - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

In the wake of economic globalization and development in Thailand, movement of people and commodities at the Thai borders is also becoming pronounced. Economic interdependence between Thailand and neighboring countries is growing through border customhouses. As a policy, Thailand is trying to...

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The Policy Making Process in FTA Negotiations: A Case Study of Japanese Bilateral EPAs

Higashi, Shigeki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

This paper analyzes Japanese bilateral EPA negotiations, focusing on the areas that each country decided were most important, as well as which actors played the most important roles in each set of negotiations. The negotiations with Mexico and Thailand, which tried to increase agricultural...

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Globalization and the Evolution of the Supply Chain: who gains and who loses?

Fujita, Masahisa; Thisse, Jacques-Francois - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2004

This paper focuses on two distinct facets of globalization: the decrease in the trade costs of goods and the decline of communication costs between headquarters and production facilities within firms. When the unskilled have about the same wage in the two regions, the decrease of these costs...

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Platforms and firm capabilities : a study of emerging global value chains

Ding, Ke - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

This paper discusses globalizationâ€™s impact on production and distribution systems in emerging economies. On one hand, globalization has resulted in an increasing number of multinational corporations to adopt a platform strategy for their customers in emerging markets. On the other hand,...

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Taiwan strait crises and Chiang Kai-shek's strategic thinking : a perspective from the Taiwan's archive

Matsumoto, Haruka - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

mainland China and the defense of the Da-chen islands before and after the initiation of the First Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1954 …

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Assessing agglomeration economies in the Yangzi River Delta, China : a bayesian spatial econometric approach

Hashiguchi, Yoshihiro; Chen, Kuang-hui - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

the agglomeration effect, in the Yangtze River Delta, China. A spatial Durbin model is presented that makes explicit the …

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A closer look at the diffusion of ChinaGAP

Lei, Lei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

To enhance Chinese agricultural production, improve food quality, build consumer trust, and encourage the export of agricultural products, the Chinese government designed the Chinese version of Good Agricultural Practice (ChinaGAP) based on the main principles of the GlobalGAP combining the...

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The voices and protests of China's labour NGOs and their effort to promote migrant worker rights

Yamaguchi, Mami - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

Labour NGOs in China are relatively new organizations that emerged in the 1990s and have spread during the 2000s …. Migrant workers in China are weak both socially and economically and have been lacking ways of voicing grievances and …

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Product quality and intra-industry trade

Ito, Tadashi; Okubo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

quality improvement of Chinese export goods in its IIT with Germany. We compare the case of China with those of Eastern … between Germany and Eastern European countries is clearly narrowing. However, China's export prices to Germany are much lower … than Germany's export prices to China, and this gap has not narrowed over the last 23 years. This is at odds with the …

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