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Securing Medical Personnel: Case Studies of Two Source Countries and Two Destination Countries

Yamagata, Tatsufumi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007

A shortage of medical personnel has become a critical problem for developing countries attempting to expand the provision of medical services for the poor. In order to highlight the driving forces determining the international allocation of medical personnel, the cases of four countries, namely...

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Trade obstacles, inventory level of inputs, and internationalization of enterprise activities : a comparison between Southeast Asia and Latin America

Ueki, Yasushi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of trade barriers such as customs clearance, subjective trade obstacles (customs and trade regulations), and inventory of inputs on the internationalization of enterprises in Southeast Asia and Latin America, using the World Bank's enterprise surveys. Empirical...

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On the variety of Mexico's export goods

Ito, Tadashi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

This paper examines the evolution of the variety of Mexicoâ€™s export goods using disaggregated trade data. Both the econometric estimation analyses using the raw data and the one using an improved version of Feenstra and Kee's (2004, 2007) methodology proposed in this paper show that NAFTA...

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Product quality and intra-industry trade

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

In this study, we argue that the conventional intra-industry trade (IIT) index does not address the quality issue directly and propose a methodology to make full use of unit-price gap information to deduce quality differences between simultaneously exported and imported products. By applying...

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The source of sustainable growth in Costa Rica

Nabeshima, Kaoru; Ito, Tadashi; Tanaka, Kiyoyasu; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

Costa Rica has some concerns for the "middle income trap" stemming from her perceived weakening export competitiveness, intensifying competition in attracting FDI inflow; and apparent lack of innovation capabilities. Quantitative analyses on the impact of recent FTAs suggest only large firms...

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Transition from black to official markets for foreign exchange in Myanmar

Kubo, Koji - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 5015

We address the puzzle why the black market for foreign exchange thrives in Myanmar despite the successful unification of multiple exchange rates. A closer look at the black market reveals that its enduring competitiveness stems from its lower transaction costs. A question arising from this...

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Strategic trade policy and non-linear subsidy : in the case of price competition

Yoshino, Hisao - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

In a strategic trade policy, it is assumed, in this paper, that a government changes disbursement or levy method so that the reaction function of home firm approaches infinitely close to that of foreign firm. In the framework of Bertrand-Nash equilibrium, Eaton and Grossman[1986] showed that...

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Export platform FDI and firm heterogeneity

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Tanaka, Kiyoyasu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically firms' productivity ranking among traditional horizontal foreign direct investment (HFDI), pure platform FDI (PFDI), and complex platform FDI (CFDI). Using data on Japanese outward FDI, we define firms conducting HFDI or PFDI as those...

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Food safety control system of Chinese eel exports and its challenges

Mori, Romio; Nabeshima, Kaoru; Yamada, Nanae - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

This paper analyzes factors associated with the rejection of products at ports of importer countries and remedial actions taken by producers in China. As an example, it uses one of the most competitive agro-food products of China: live and processed eels. This paper provides an overview of eel...

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Structural Changes in Asparagus Production and Exports from Peru

Shimizu, Tatsuya - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009

Asparagus is the star product among non-traditional agricultural exports (NTAXs) in Peru. The export of preserved … asparagus has expanded since the end of the 1980s. Although there was some stagnation in the mid-1990s, exports of fresh … case of preserved asparagus, Peruvian exports expanded because of Peruâ€™s competitiveness, which originated from favorable …

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