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Pro-poor growth or poverty trap? : estimating intergenerational income mobility in rural Philippines
Takahashi, Kazushi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
Using an intergenerational database covering nearly a quarter of a century, we explored the degree of intergenerational income mobility among individuals who had grown up in rural Central Luzon, the Philippines. We found that the intergenerational income elasticity is significantly lower than...
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Financial permeation as a role of microfinance : has microfinance actually been helpful to the poor?
Inoue, Takeshi; Hamori, Shigeyuki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
This article is distinct in its application of the logit transformation to the poverty ratio for the purpose of empirically examining whether the financial sector helps improve standards of living for low-income people. We propose the term financial permeation to describe how financial networks...
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Clothing Export from sub-Saharan Africa : Impact on Poverty and Potential for Growth
Fukunishi, Takahiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
Increases in clothing exports after 2000 signaled the first incidence of large-scale manufacturing exports from sub-Saharan Africa. Using firm-level information, this paper explores the potential of clothing exports for poverty reduction and further growth as seen in other low income countries....
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The Garment Industry in Cambodia: Its Role in Poverty Reduction through Export-Oriented Development
Yamagata, Tatsufumi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006
Cambodia's export-oriented garment industry has contributed greatly to poverty reduction in the country through employment of the poor. This paper provides a statistical verification of this contribution based on firm-level data from 164 sampled companies collected in 2003. Its main conclusions...
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Competitiveness of the knitwear industry in Bangladesh : a study of industrial development amid global competition
Bakht, Zaid; Salimullah, Md.; Yamagata, Tatsufumi; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
This paper assesses the technical efficiency and profitability of the knitwear industry in Bangladesh taking into account the sector’s role in poverty reduction. While stochastic frontier analysis was invoked to assess technical efficiency, three alternative measures, namely the rate of...
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Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction under Mubarak's Program
Yamada, Toshikazu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
This paper describes and analyzes the major features of economic development and poverty reduction in Egypt during its transition to a market Economy. It focuses on the changes in the situation of poverty and economic policies pursued as remedies by the government of Egypt and the ruling NDP....
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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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Competition of the mechanisms : how Chinese home appliance firms coped with default risk of trade credit?
Watanabe, Mariko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
During the transition period from a planned economy to a market economy in 1990s of China, there was a considerable …
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