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Budget speech by Minister of Finance. [Ministry of Finance]. URL:[http://www.finance.gov.pk/budget/budget_Speech_12_13.pdf].
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. Section I gives the trends of imports and exports, as well as the composition and direction of external trade, since 1984 …-85. It also includes the latest available position of balance of trade and exchange reserves, exchange rate movement, the …
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This paper explores the key reasons behind the movements in the terms of trade and the real net gain and loss from … trade in the long run. Like some selected Asian countries (Vietnam, China and South Korea) except India, the terms of trade … of Bangladesh has been in falling almost continuously. Bangladesh’s trade performance has improved and gaining momentum …
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There has been much debate about how much poor people in developing countries gain from trade openness, as one aspect … structural modelling of the impacts of specific trade reforms. Case studies are presented for China and Morocco. Both the macro … and micro approaches cast doubt on some widely heard generalizations from both sides of the globalization debate …
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During the recent period, many countries compete with each other to attract foreign investment. When MNCs invest in a host country, it is assumed that a part of their technology spills to the host country firms. But empirical studies on spillover effects of FDI have failed to find robust...
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The Indian economy reached the trillion US dollar GDP milestone in 2007 and joined other countries of the trillion dollar club, namely, the US, UK, Japan, Germany, China, France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Brazil and Russia. In fact, over the period 1960 to the late 1980s, India’s GDP in US...
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This paper discusses the key issues related to foreign direct investment flows to developing countries in the globalised world. In particular, the paper focuses on the recent trend and direction of foreign direct investment flows to developing countries and the uneven distribution of the flows...
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This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: the export of skills, embodied in goods, services or capital from poorer to richer countries. A set of stylized facts is presented. Using a measure which combines the sophistication of a country’s exports with the...
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This study investigates the water demand of Indian manufacturing plants. It adopts an input distance function approach and approximates it by a translog form. Duality between cost function and input distance function is exploited to retrieve information concerning substitutability and the shadow...
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The tax base of tobacco in India is found to be heavily depended on about fteen per cent of the tobacco users who represent cigarettes smokers. Non-cigarette tobacco products used by the majority of tobacco users are largely out of the tax net. Analysis of the price elasticity of various tobacco...
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