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India's growing economic strength of recent years has seen it adapting its foreign policy to increase its global … vision, most noticeably in Asia, and has broadened the definition of its security interests. As a result, India … global partnership between them.India and Japan share a special relationship as fellow democracies without hegemonic …
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The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals … of public ownership and important regulatory barriers continue to dominate the services sectors. India has gone a long … still persists which likely adds to the hurdles faced by the Indian manufacturing sector. India has revealed a comparative …
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The issues of privatization (and sometimes deregulation) have been reviewed in a large literature on the various … aspects of privatization, that has emphasized the potential efficiency gains. Hence, we provide some theoretical reasoning why … privatization is useful as well as profitable for an economy and empirically present the extent of privatization in Austria and …
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This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and bank performance covering approximately 50,000 observations for 119 countries over the 1995-2002 period. The paper then uses the dataset to reassess the relationship between bank ownership and bank performance, providing separated estimations...
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This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the role of state-owned banks and also presents some new results and a robustness analysis. The paper shows that state-owned banks located in developing countries have fiscal costs because they are characterized by lower returns than...
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. Martin Feldstein's pro-privatization rhetoric relative to Social Security is first analyzed. A subsequent comparison his … rhetoric to that of George W. Bush concludes that both the political and the economic rhetoric of Social Security privatization …
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The desirability of WTO membership for China depends on whether its economic successes have been the result of its discovery of new institutional forms (e.g. dual track pricing, SOE contracts, and fiscal contracts) that are optimal for China''s particular economic circumstances, or have been the...
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Critics of globalization claim that foreign ownership of privatized firms is linked to negative post-privatization … already better restructured before privatization. Additionally, this paper does not find evidence that foreign participation …
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