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Health Systems in East Asia : What Can Developing Countries Learn from Japan and the Asian Tigers?

Wagstaff, Adam - 2012

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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Landlockedness, Infrastructure and Trade : New Estimates for Central Asian Countries

Grigoriou, Christopher - 2012

This paper assesses the impact of internal infrastructure and landlockedness on Central Asian trade using a panel gravity equation estimated on a large sample of countries (167 countries over 1992-2004). The panel structure of the dataset makes it possible to control for country-pair specific...

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Trade Costs, Barriers to Entry, and Export Diversification in Developing Countries

Dennis, Allen; Shepherd, Ben - 2012

This paper finds that a 1 percent reduction in the cost of exporting or the cost of international transport is associated with an export diversification gain of 0.3 percent or 0.4 percent respectively. Lower domestic market entry costs can also promote diversification, but the elasticity is...

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Trade Costs in the Developing World : 1995 - 2010

Arvis, Jean-Fran??ois; Duval, Yann; Shepherd, Ben - 2013

The authors use newly collected data on trade and production in 178 countries to infer estimates of trade costs in agriculture and manufactured goods for the 1995-2010 period. The data show that trade costs are strongly declining in per capita income. Moreover, the rate of change of trade costs...

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Economic Implications of a Potential Free Trade Agreement between India and the United States

Fukase, Emiko; Martin, Will - 2015

This paper explores the economic implications of a potential free trade agreement between India and the United States. A series of simulations is conducted assuming 100 percent ad valorem equivalent tariff cuts for goods and 50 percent cuts for services. The overall impacts are likely to be...

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Making Regional Cooperation Work for South Asia's Poor

Ahmed, Sadiq; Ghani, Ejaz - 2012

South Asia has attracted global attention because it has experienced rapid GDP growth over the last two decades. What is not so well known is that South Asia is the least integrated region in the world. South Asia has opened its door to the rest of the world but it remains closed to its...

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Can Sub-Saharan Africa Leap into Global Network Trade?

Subramanian, Uma; Matthijs, Matthias - 2012

This paper examines opportunities for Sub-Saharan African countries to effectively participate in globalization, particularly given the increasing interest of China and India in Sub-Saharan Africa. How can Sub-Saharan Africa fully engage and gain benefits from global network trade? Over the past...

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The International Financial Integration of China and India

Lane, Philip R.; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2012

Three main features characterize the international financial integration of China and India. First, while only having a small global share of privately-held external assets and liabilities (with the exception of China's foreign direct investment liabilities), these countries are large holders of...

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The Impact of Trade with China and India on Argentina's Manufacturing Employment

Castro, Lucio; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Saslavsky, Daniel - 2012

For many in Latin America, the increasing participation of China and India in international markets is seen as a looming shadow of two "mighty giants" on the region's manufacturing sector. Are they really mighty giants when it comes to their impact on manufacturing employment? The authors...

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Asian Century or Multi-polar Century?

Dollar, David - 2012

The "rise of Asia" is something of a myth. During 1990-2005 China accounted for 28 percent of global growth, measured at purchasing power parity (PPP). India accounted for 9 percent. The rest of developing Asia, with nearly a billion people, accounted for only 7 percent, the same as Latin...

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