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When one country's land gain is another country's land loss...: The social, ecological and economic dimensions of sand extraction in the context of world-systems analysis exemplifi...

Franke, Maria - 2014

Singapore industrialised rapidly with continuously high growth rates since its independence in 1965 and its population … during the same period of time almost tripled. With development at this scale, Singapore had to grow in number of industrial …, Cambodia and Vietnam) for its sand supply. All major sand supplying countries successively prohibited sand exports to Singapore …

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India-Myanmar border trade

Taneja, Nisha; Joshi, Sanjana; Singh, Thiyam Bharat; … - 2019

As India seeks to strengthen trade, investment and other forms of economic cooperation with ASEAN, Myanmar is an essential strategic partner, since it is the only ASEAN nation with which India shares both land and maritime borders. As a "gateway" to South East Asia, Myanmar is also vital in...

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The Rhetoric of Policy Relevance in International Economics

Milberg, William - 1994

This paper addresses the link between the generation of economic knowledge and economic policy conclusions. Focusing on the case of research in international trade, I establish a taxonomy of rhetorical practices used to make such a link. The flexibility observed in these practices contrasts...

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The Buffett plan for reducing the trade deficit

Papadimitriou, Dimitri B.; Hannsgen, Greg; Zezza, Gennaro - 2008

This paper considers a plan proposed by Warren Buffett, in which importers would be required to obtain certificates proportional to the amount of non-oil goods (and possibly also services) they brought into the country. These certificates would be granted to firms that exported goods. Exporting...

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Special Interest Politics and Trade Policy – An Empirical Challenge

Belfrage, Carl-Johan - 2004

The model of protectionist support for individual industries as an endogenous outcome of special interest politics pioneered by Grossman and Helpman (1994) is generalized and then empirically examined using data for a number of OECD countries and regions. Cross-sectional regressions are...

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Rethinking export incentives in India

Hoda, Anwarul - 2020

India's graduation from the ranks of low-income countries, making it ineligible under the WTO rules to grant export subsidies on manufactures has thrown up a new policy challenge. In this context, this paper argues for the government to rethink its export incentives programme altogether and take...

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Servification of Firms and Trade Policy Implications

Lodefalk, Magnus - 2016

In the OECD countries, the decline of manufacturing and its employment implications have long been matters of concern. Recently, policymakers in several countries have set out to achieve reindustrialization. The servicification of firms is related to these concerns and aspirations. However,...

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OECD Agricultural Trade Reforms Impact on India's Prices and Producers Welfare

Mittal, Surabhi - 2007

Rich countries use a combination of domestic market interventions and border protection or export subsidies as a part of their domestic policies. Developed countries such as the United States and the European Union (EU) resort to trade distorting policies to make their crop more competitive -...

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Trade possibilities and non-tariff barriers to Indo-Pak trade

Taneja, Nisha - 2007

This paper aims to identify the bilateral trade possibilities and non-tariff barriers between India and Pakistan. The study shows that there is a large untapped trade potential between the two countries. Using the potential trade approach, the study finds that the export potential from India to...

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China and India: A Tale of Two Trade Integration Approaches

Kowalski, Przemyslaw - 2008

The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals that while much has already been achieved in both these economies, the Chinese reforms, especially with respect to manufacturing trade, have gone further and that this is likely...

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