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The voices and protests of China's labour NGOs and their effort to promote migrant worker rights

Yamaguchi, Mami - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

Labour NGOs in China are relatively new organizations that emerged in the 1990s and have spread during the 2000s. Migrant workers in China are weak both socially and economically and have been lacking ways of voicing grievances and protesting. Grassroots labour NGOs for migrant workers seem to...

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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

In agricultural societies, adjusting land and labor according to changes of labor endowment that result from family …. This paper examines how and how well households in pre-modern Japan reallocated land and labor, using a population register … households and the village as a whole to reallocate land and labor for the efficient use of resources. …

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Development and institutionalization of communitarian thought in Thailand

Shigetomi, Shinichi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

In Thailand, communitarian ideas have been widely accepted and even institutionalized as a principle of national development plans and the Constitution of Thailand. This paper examines how and why the communitarian body of thought, described as "community culture thought," and originally created...

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Inflation targeting in Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines : the impact on business cycle synchronization between each country and the world

Inoue, Takeshi; Toyoshima, Yuki; Hamori, Shigeyuki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) model developed by Engle (2002), we find that IT in Asia has little effect on …

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Establishing global value chains through the liberalization of trade in services

Ishido, Hikari - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

This paper addresses the importance of establishing global value chains through the liberalization of trade in services. A database has revealed rather disconnected policy arrangements across APEC members in terms of service trade liberalization. While the economic benefits arising from...

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The policy impact of product-related environmental regulations in Asia

Michida, Etsuyo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

countries to introduce regulations that are similar yet modified versions to the EU regulations. Asia as the world manufacturing …

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FTA utilization : certificate of origin data versus customs data

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Kim, HanSung; Nuttawut, Laksanapanyakul - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

This paper empirically examines what kinds of elements affect the gap in free trade agreement (FTA) utilization with regard to customs data and certificates of origin (CoOs) data. We focus on Thai exports to Korea under the ASEAN-Korea FTA in 2011. As a result, we found that the products with...

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Some practical guidance for the computation of free trade agreement utilization rates

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Nuttawut, Laksanapanyakul; Shiino, Kohei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

The literature on the use of free trade agreements (FTAs) has recently been growing because it is becoming more important to encourage the use of current FTAs than to increase the number of FTAs. In this paper, we discuss some practical issues in the computation of FTA utilization rates, which...

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Harmonization of trade in services by APEC members

Ishido, Hikari - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) and makes some comparative analyses. The study finds that the commitment level differs …

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Environmental consciousness, economic gain and consumer choice of energy efficient appliances in Thailand, China and India

Kusaka, Wakana; Kojima, Michikazu; Watanabe, Mariko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

In developing economies, consumption of electricity in residential and commercial sectors increased with economic development. In order to identify the factors for effective facilitation of standard and labeling programs, this article explores factors that affect consumer choice to...

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