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The Bangladesh gender gap in education : biased intra-household educational expenditures

Shonchoy, Abu S.; Rabbani, Mehnaz - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

rounds of nationally representative Household Income & Expenditure Surveys this study reveals that households spend less on … components, we find persistent gender imbalance in educational expenditure where households provide better quality of education …By investigating the educational expenditure of children over the ten years (2000 to 2010), we evaluate whether there …

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The Shrimp Export Boom and Small-Scale Fishermen in Myanmar

Okamoto, Ikuko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

gloomy due to the possibility of over exploitation of shrimp resources. …

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Who Eats the Most? :Quantitative Analysis of Pork Barrel Distributions in the Philippines

Kawanaka, Takeshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007

Since a pork barrel is crucial in buying off voters, competition over the distributions among legislators has been considered as one of the main factors in producing congressional political dynamism and congressional institutions. This paper aims to test the theory of pork barrel distributions...

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Political institutions and policy outcomes : effects of presidential vetoes on budget making

Kawanaka, Takeshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010

clarify and explain the model, we present the case of budget making in the Philippines between 1994 and 2008. In the … Philippines, the presidential partial veto has been bringing expenditure programs closer to the President's ideal point within … what may be called the Congress's indifference curve. The Congress, however, has not always passed budget bills and from …

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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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