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Has Low Productivity Constrained Competitiveness of African Firms? : Comparison of the Firm Performances with Asian Firms

Fukunishi, Takahiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007

firms mainly stems from high labour cost, while impact of inefficiency is quite small. Productivity accounts little for the …

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Agglomeration and firm-level productivity : a Bayesian spatial approach

Hashiguchi, Yoshihiro; Tanaka, Kiyoyasu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

This paper estimates the impact of industrial agglomeration on firm-level productivity in Chinese manufacturing sectors … productivity-boosting effect, but agglomeration of urban population (i.e. urbanization) has no such effects. Additionally, the …

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Do electricity supply constraints matter for comparative advantage? : a neoclassical approach

Sato, Hitoshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

find that along with Ricardian technological differences and Heckscher-Ohlin factor-endowment differences, productivity …, machinery, chemicals, and paper products will see lower output shares as a result of decreases in productivity … dominate in the short-run, and factor endowment differences and productivity-adjusted electricity capacity tend to have a …

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Rules of Origin and Local Content in East Asia

Kuroiwa, Ikuo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006

Rules of Origin (RoO) are an integral part of all trade rules. In order to be eligible for Common Effective Preferential Tariffs (CEPT) under AFTA and similar arrangements under the ASEAN-China FTA, a product must satisfy the conditions relative to local content. The paper tries to calculate...

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Did Japanese direct investment in Korea suppress indigenous industrialization in the 1930s? : evidence from country-level factory entry patterns

Arimoto, Yutaka; Lee, Changmin - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

Foreign direct investment (FDI) can deliver both positive and negative spillovers to the local economy. Negative effects such as crowding-out or entry-barrier effects might outweigh the positive ones when the technological gap between foreign and local firms is significant. This paper examines...

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Pitfalls of location choice analysis : the finished goods producer versus the intermediate goods producer

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Matsuura, Toshiyuki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

In literature related to firm location choice, estimation equations are derived from the model of finished goods producers, but producer types are generally not considered. Research presented in this paper shows that the use of equations derived from such models against intermediate goods...

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International Competitiveness of Manufacturing Firms in sub-Saharan Africa

Fukunishi, Takahiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2004

productivity, labour cost and exchange rate are unfavorable in sub-Saharan Africa. Representative arguments attribute the weak …

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Causality Relationships between Total Exports with Agricultural and Manufacturing GDP in Tanzania

Shombe, Nicolaus Herman - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

This paper, investigates causal relationships among agriculture, manufacturing and export in Tanzania by using time series data for the period between 1970 and 2005. The empirical results show in both sectors there is Granger causality where agriculture causes both exports and manufacturing....

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Agglomeration Economies in Japan: Technical Efficiency, Growth and Unemployment

Mitra, Arup; Sato, Hajime - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006

the context of globalisation when countries are in dire need of raising productivity. …

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Industrial Networks between China and the Countries of the Asia-Pacific Region

Kuwamori, Hiroshi; Okamoto, Nobuhiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007

This paper investigates the changes in the structures of industrial networks that have occurred in the Asia-Pacific region in line with the rapid growth of the Chinese economy. Analyses using international input-output tables revealed that during the 1990s, there was a significant increase in...

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