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This paper examines how prices, markups and marginal costs respond to trade liberalization. Multi-product firms are used in the study. [BREAD WP No. 418].
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A lively debate is taking place over the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) on East Asia's business between those who view the agreements as a harmful Asian "noodle bowl"—i.e., overlapping regional trade agreements—of trade deals and others who see net beneficial effects in...
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The study seeks to answer two very basic questions in the Indian context: first, are there economies of scale and scope in Indian banking? In other words, are bigger banks better for India? And, second, to what extent has the domestic impetus, i.e., financial-sector policy reforms during the...
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Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor decisions? This question is examined in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline...
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This study attempts to provide an analysis of the gender concerns of the proposed EU India FTA in the field of agriculture and suggest policy changes both in the FTA text as well as in domestic policy. [Paper III].
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within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing …
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All foreign observers have interpreted China through the filter of their own era, as well as their personal background … and experiences. A virtual academic industry has developed, not on China itself but on 'interpretations', 'perceptions …' or 'images' of China, but the narrower, though not always separate, issue of scholarly approaches and interpretations …
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Ernest Morrison Lecture on Ethnography, 2003, The Contemporary China Centre] …
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In many Asian countries the ratio of male to female population is higher than in the West -- as high as 1.07 in China … campagins. Hepatitis B is common in many Asian countries, especially China, where some 10 to 15 per cent of the population is … hepatitis B can account for about 45 per cent of the "missing women": around 75 per cent in China, between 20 per cent and 50 …
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Reform in the People's Republic of China has seen a dramatic change in the discourse of localism, which has now moved … China, suggests to the contrary that the impact of new discourses of localism has actually strengthened the nationalist …, 2004, The Contemporary China Centre] …
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