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Japan’s Positive and Negative Aid Sanctions Policy Toward Asian Countries: Case Studies of Thailand and Indonesia
Furuoka, Fumitaka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper, Japan’s positive and negative aid sanctions policy toward Asian countries since the introduction of new … aid guidelines will be examined and discussed. Japan can choose to impose negative aid sanctions (the suspension or a … increase in foreign aid) would be applied to aid recipients that conduct desirable polices in the light of Japan’s ODA Charter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260289
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Climate Change, Trade, and Competitiveness: Climate Trade Performance of India, SAARC and Asia Pacific Region
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
China, Hong Kong and Japan, and Asia Pacific region are major exporter of CFG during 2002-2008. Competitiveness of India … identifies India’s performance in CFG trade with other Asian nations. Most of the countries in Asia are importers of climate … friendly goods and technologies. The Comparative advantage analyses indicate that Hong Kong, China, and Japan have comparative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113190
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Political and Economic Determinants of Free Trade Agreements in the Presence of Foreign Lobbying
Gu, ZhenHua - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Will a free trade agreements (FTAs) between nations be politically viable？Under political lobby what incentives determine whether FTAs will be signed or not? Will FTAs include steadily more countries until we reach worldwide free trade? The paper addresses these questions using a theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108479
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Growth and Pattern of Intra-Industry Trade in Manufactures in Inida's Overall Trade:A Quantitative Analysis
Das, Gouranga G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
This paper analyses empirical evidences of growing volume of Intra-industry trade in India during 1975-1992. Quantitative evidences show that trade in manufactured products has increased with rapid industrialisation leading to genesis of intra-industry trade. Measures of Grubel-Lloyd...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259248
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Assessing Indicators of Currency Crisis in Ethiopia: Signals Approach
Megersa, kelbesa; Cassimon, Danny - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Currency crises, generally defined as rapid depreciation of a local currency or loss of foreign exchange reserves, are common incidents in modern monetary systems. Due to their repeated occurrence and severity, they have earned wide coverage by both theoretical and empirical literature. However,...
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Korea investment corporation: its origin and evolution
Kim, Woochan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper, I give a detailed account of the creation and the evolution of Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) – a sovereign wealth fund established in 2005 by the Korean government. In doing so, I highlight three of its unique features. First, the case of KIC effectively shows the problem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259985
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The Art of Gracefully Exiting a Peg
Asici, Ahmet; Wyplosz, Charles - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
The wave of liberalization of capital movements, which swept Europe in the 1980s and the emerging market countries in the 1990s, has given rise to the two-corner strategy. According to this view only two exchange rate regimes are sustainable: hard pegs and fully flexible rates. Soft pegs in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260122
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After ten years the Russian crisis how IMF intervention might be evaluated?
Sulimierska, Malgorzata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The ongoing global financial crisis has become prominently visible since September 2008. This crisis affected the whole world and enhanced the importance of policy implementation to mitigate financial crises in future. Many academics blamed insufficient domestic regulation as the reason of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643757
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The single global currency - common cents for the world (2008 Edition)
Bonpasse, Morrison - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Abstract This is the 2008 Edition of one of only two book in print in the world about the Single Global Currency, and is the only book in the world priced in 141 currencies (down from 147 in the 2006 edition.).This number is significant, as it's the number of currencies required among the 192...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835646
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Special Interests, Regime Choice, and Currency Collapse
Lim, Jamus Jerome - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
With heterogeneous productivity and sticky prices in the short run, exchange rate changes can generate real effects on agents in the economy; the result is that the currency regime becomes a policy variable amenable to political competition. This paper discusses how special interests and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836101