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Health reform and service satisfaction in the poor : Turkey

Hazama, Yasushi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

Turkey began to reform its health care system in 2003 and introduced universal health insurance in 2008. This paper tests the effect of health reform in Turkey on satisfaction in the poor with public health services. An ordered logit model is applied to a pooled dataset compiled from the Life...

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of GMS Economic Corridors: Why is There More Focus on the Bangkok-Hanoi Road than the East-West Corridor?

Ishida, Masami - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007

Since the inauguration of the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program in 1992, road infrastructure projects have played a very important role. Their economic significance, especially, has become a focal point after the introduction of the concept of the three economic...

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Value Chain Dynamics and Growth of Local Firms:The Case of Motorcycle Industry in Vietnam

Fujita, Mai - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

Vietnamâ€™s burgeoning market for motorcycles has attracted global industry eaders,players from developing countries, and local firms. This has led to a dynamic evolution of value chains. This paper presents an explanation of the varieties of the growth patterns xperienced by the local...

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Is the Vietnamese garment industry at a turning point? : upgrading from the export to the domestic market

Goto, Kenta - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

Vietnamâ€™s garment industry has been loosely characterized by the duality based on market orientation: export and domestic. Export-oriented garment suppliers were typically SOEs and foreign invested firms, while those producing for the domestic market have been mostly small, private...

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The development of private farms in Vietnam

Kojin, Emi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

The objective of this paper is to explore the entities that have developed private farms (trang trai) in Vietnam … authorâ€™s field surveys in Vietnam from 2006 to 2011, the paper attempts to categorize patterns in the development of private …

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Adoption of ISO9001 through supply chain in Vietnam : impacts of FDI and product-related environmental regulation

Iguchi, Hakaru; Arimura, Toshi H.; Michida, Etsuyo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

Product-related Environmental Regulations on Chemicals (PRERCs) and FDI using the answers to several questions in our Vietnam … in the reduction of various environmental impacts in Vietnam. In addition, we found that FDI promotes the adoption of ISO … 9001. If FDI firms in Vietnam certify ISO 14001 after the adoption of ISO 9001, as in the case of Malaysia and the …

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International labor migration in Vietnam and the impact of receiving countries' policies

Ishizuka, Futaba - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

. Recent years, Vietnam has sent about 80,000 workers abroad per year. Vietnam has become a major source country of unskilled … and Japanese policies for receiving foreign workers applied to and implemented in Vietnam, as well as the impact of …

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Vietnamese Local State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) at the Crossroads: Implications of SOE Restructuring at the Local Level

Ishizuka, Futaba - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009

This paper aims to capture the changing features of local SOEs under the national SOE restructuring program in the 2000s. The national policy on SOE reform in this phase had an effect of considerably clarifying and narrowing down the raison d'être of SOEs, which has been put into practice at...

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The Feasibility of Cuban Market Economy: A Comparison with Vietnam

Yamaoka, Kanako - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009

system. On the contrary, Vietnam has introduced a market economy under communist rule, and succeeded in generally improving …

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Prioritization of Policies: A Prototype Model of a Flowchart Method

Kuchiki, Akifumi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2004

. We illustrated the effectiveness of our "flowchart method" in case studies of Morocco, Laos, Vietnam, and China. The … macroeconomic stability, and institutional capacity building at Steps 1, 2, and 3. Vietnam can focus on reforming the state …

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