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Impacts of solar lanterns in geographically challenged locations : experimental evidence from Bangladesh
Kudo, Yuya; Shonchoy, Abu S.; Takahashi, Kazushi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
significantly increased home study hours among schooled children, especially in the night and before exams. School attendance rate … study time and initial school attendance rate, however, did not improve children's exam results. We also found marginal …
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Comparative analysis of bilateral memoranda on anti-human trafficking cooperation between Thailand and three neighboring countries : what do the origin and the destination states a...
Yamada, Miwa - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
In order to prevent, suppress and punish human trafficking, bilateral agreements between origin of victim countries and destination countries are crucial, because their cooperation involves cross-border activities such as repatriation of victims, extradition of criminals and information-sharing....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547638
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Deprivation of Education in Urban Areas: A Basic Profile of Slum Children in Delhi, India
Tsujita, Yuko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009
This paper showed the basic educational status of slum children between 5 and 14 years old. The attendance ratio of … slum children is much lower than that of children in Delhi as a whole. Parental perception of education and financing … education are the major constraints. Even if children are attending schools, the majority of them are over-aged. There are both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029397
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Environmental provisions in Japanese regional trade agreements with developing countries
Yanai, Akiko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
the first step in examining the environmental provisions in RTAs, this paper focuses on the RTAs that Japan has concluded … environment in Japanese RTAs has gradually changed since the signing of the Japan-Chile EPA in 2007, in which a joint …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147333
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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
Labor export has been part of Vietnam’s socio-economic development strategy since the beginning of the doi moi era. Recent years, Vietnam has sent about 80,000 workers abroad per year. Vietnam has become a major source country of unskilled foreign workers for high-income East Asian...
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Emergence of Asian GAPs and its relationship to global G.A.P.
Nabeshima, Kaoru; Michida, Etsuyo; Vu, Hoang Nam; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
increasing impacts of Global G.A.P., many Asian countries have introduced the country versions of GAPs; China GAP, Japan GAP … bodies as well as focus differ from each other. This paper examines the development and motivation behind how the Asian GAPs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213709
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Land and labor reallocation in pre-modern Japan : a case of a northeastern village in 1720-1870
Arimoto, Yutaka; Kurosu, Satomi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
. This paper examines how and how well households in pre-modern Japan reallocated land and labor, using a population register …
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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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Production networks in the Asia-Pacific region : facts and policy implications
Hiratsuka, Daisuke - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
Production networks have been extensively developed in the Asia-Pacific region. This paper employs two micro-level approaches, case studies and econometric analysis, using JETRO's firm surveys which investigate Japanese affiliates operating in Southeast Asia. These two approaches found that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365994
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Do export promotion agencies increase exports?
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Lee, Hyun-Hoon; Park, Donghyun - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
In this paper, we examine the role of export promotion agencies (EPAs) in promoting exports from Japan and Korea …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365995