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Policy Dilemmas in India - The Impact of Changes in Agricultural Prices on Rural and Urban Poverty
Polaski, Sandra; Panda, Manoj; Ganesh-Kumar, A.; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Trade policy reforms which lead to changes in world prices of agricultural commodities or domestic policies aimed at affecting agricultural prices are often seen as causing a policy dilemma : a fall in agricultural prices benefits poor urban consumers but hurts poor rural producers, while a rise...
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Trade Liberalization, Poverty and Food Security in India
Panda, Manoj; Ganesh-Kumar, A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper attempts to assess the impact of trade liberalization on growth, poverty, and food security in India with the help of a national level computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. It shows that GDP growth and income poverty reduction that might occur following trade liberalization need...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365106
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Reforms in Indian Agro-processing and Agriculture Sectors in the Context of Unilateral and Multilateral Trade Agreements
Ganesh-Kumar, A.; Panda, Manoj; Burfisher, Mary E. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
In this paper, we explore the potential impacts of trade and investment-related policy reforms on Indias agro-processing sector. We consider the direct effects of policy reforms within the processing sector, and the indirect effects on agro-processing of policy reforms in the primary agriculture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365124
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Does Finance Really Matter for the Participation of SMEs in International Trade? Evidence from 8,080 East Asian Firms
Jinjarak, Yothin; Mutuc, Paulo Jose; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
This paper studies factors associated with firm participation in export markets, focusing primarily on firm size and … interdependent relationships between export participation, firm size, and access to credit. SMEs participating in export markets tend … participation in export markets. The estimation results also point to the supportive influences of foreign ownership, worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010901622
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Does Finance Really Matter for the Participation of SMEs in International Trade? Evidence from 8,080 East Asian Firms
Jinjarak, Yothin; Mutuc, Paulo Jose; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
This paper studies factors associated with firm participation in export markets, focusing primarily on firm size and … interdependent relationships between export participation, firm size, and access to credit. SMEs participating in export markets tend … participation in export markets. The estimation results also point to the supportive influences of foreign ownership, worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010901625
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The economic impact of the Australia-United States free trade agreement
Armstrong, Shiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2015
The Australia–United States free trade agreement (AUSFTA) came into effect in 2005. It was the second preferential trade agreement that Australia signed, after its agreement with Singapore, and marked a departure from the primacy of Australia’s previous trade policy of unilateral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011152647
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Regional Trade Agreements and Enterprises in Southeast Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
The spread of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Southeast Asia has ignited a debate about their impact on business, and ways to avoid raising the business costs from the Asian ‘noodle bowl’ effect. This paper undertakes a comparative and firm-level analysis of the impact of RTAs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134331
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Regional Trade Agreements and Enterprises in Southeast Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
The spread of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Southeast Asia has ignited a debate about their impact on business, and ways to avoid raising the business costs from the Asian ‘noodle bowl’ effect. This paper undertakes a comparative and firm-level analysis of the impact of RTAs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134359
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Japan’s foreign economic policy strategies and economic performance
Drysdale, Peter; Armstrong, Shiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
The economic rise of Japan in the 1980s was underpinned by commitment to catching up through domestic reform and accommodated externally within the framework of the postwar multilateral institutions like the GATT/WTO. Regional cooperative processes like APEC later complemented that framework,...
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