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Estimating trade restrictiveness indices
Olarreaga, Marcelo - 2006
"The objective of this paper is to provide indicators of trade restrictiveness that include both measures of tariff and nontariff barriers for 91 developing and industrial countries. For each country, the authors estimate three trade restrictiveness indices. The first one summarizes the degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522220
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Import demand elasticities and trade distortions
Nicita, Alessandro - 2004
"To study the effects of tariffs on gross domestic product (GDP), one needs import demand elasticities at the tariff line level that are consistent with GDP maximization. These do not exist. Kee, Nicita, and Olarreaga modify Kohli's (1991) GDP function approach to estimate demand elasticities...
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The challenge of reducing subsidies and trade barriers
Anderson, Kym - 2004
"This is one of 10 studies for the Copenhagen Consensus Project that sought to evaluate the most feasible opportunities to improve welfare globally and alleviate poverty in developing countries. Anderson argues that phasing out distortionary government subsidies and barriers to international...
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Informal export barriers and poverty
Porto, Guido Gustavo - 2004
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Trading market access for competition policy enforcement
Saggi, Kamal - 2004
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A general equilibrium estimation of the effects of reductions in tariffs and quantitative restrictions in Turkey in 1978
Grais, Wafik - 1984
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Learning from megadisasters : lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake
Ranghieri, Federica (ed.); Ishiwatari, Mikio (ed.) - World Bank - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394042
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The regional dimension of North-South trade-related r&d spillover
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2009
"This paper examines the impact of trade with Japan, North America, and the European Union on technology diffusion and … from trade with the European Union, Korea from trade with Japan, and Mexico from trade with North America. In other words …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394120
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University-local industry linkages : the case of Tohoku University in the Sendai area of Japan
Jiang, Juan - 2006
"This paper focuses on Tohoku University in Sendai in the nonmetropolitan area of Japan. Both a long historical and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522071
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Health systems in East Asia : what can developing countries learn from Japan and the Asian tigers ?
Wagstaff, Adam - 2005
"The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan …. On the delivery side, too, Japan and the Tigers offer some interesting lessons. Singapore's experience with corporatizing … with regulated prices to uninsured services with unregulated prices. Japan, in its approach to rate-setting for insured …
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