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Cross-Border Electricity Cooperation in South Asia
Singh, Anoop - 2017
South Asian countries, facing challenges in efficiently meeting growing electricity demand, can benefit from increased cross-border electricity cooperation and trade by harnessing complementarities in electricity demand patterns, diversity in resource endowments for power generation, and gains...
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What Does Regional Trade in South Asia Reveal About Future Trade Integration? Some Empirical Evidence
Pitigala, Nihal - 2021
In 1995 the seven South Asian countries - Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka …
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The Global Apparel Value Chain, Trade and the Crisis : Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries
Gereffi, G. - 2017
industry. On the country side, China has been the big winner, although Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam have also continued to …
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Employment Growth Patterns in South Asia : Some Evidence from Interim Enterprise Survey Data
Friesenbichler, Klaus - 2017
This paper analyzes firm growth patterns in South Asia, using establishment level data from an Interim Enterprise Survey. The survey was conducted by the World Bank in 2009 and 2010 and covers seven countries in the region. The first finding suggests that size in the base year gains importance...
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Effects of Trade Liberalization on Textile and Apparel Exports from Sub-Sahara Africa
Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2019
This paper estimates the impact of market access liberalization in high-income countries on sub-Saharan African exports. The methodology exploits the large reduction in trade barriers that was induced by three unilateral trade liberalization initiatives: (1) the dismantling of the Multi-Fiber...
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The Textile-Clothing Value Chain in India and Bangladesh : How Appropriate Policies Can Promote (or Inhibit) Trade and Investment
Kabir, Mahfuz - 2019
There are significant value chain linkages between India and Bangladesh, particularly in the textile and apparel sector … Bangladesh. Bangladesh specializes in the downstream final apparel segment, exporting worldwide as well as to India. Tariffs and …. India specializes in the upstream segment, supplying such intermediate inputs as silk, cotton, yarn, and fabrics to …
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When Measure Matters : Coresidency, Truncation Bias, and Intergenerational Mobility in Developing Countries
Emran, M. Shahe - 2017
Biases from truncation caused by coresidency restriction have been a challenge for research on intergenerational mobility. Estimates of intergenerational schooling persistence from two data sets show that the intergenerational regression coefficient, the most widely used measure, is severely...
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Integrating Border Regions : Connectivity and Competitiveness in South Asia
Calì, Massimiliano - 2017
contiguous districts of India, Nepal, and Bangladesh in the northeast of the subcontinent to measure the degrees of trade …
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Unlocking Bangladesh-India Trade : Emerging Potential and the Way Forward
De, Prabir - 2017
The primary objective of this study is to analyze the impact on Bangladesh of increased market access in India, both … within a static production structure and also identifying dynamic gains. The study shows that Bangladesh and India would both … from a Free Trade Agreement. A Free Trade Agreement would also raise India's exports to Bangladesh. India's provision of …
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Shorter, Cheaper, Quicker, Better : Linking Measures of Household Food Security to Nutritional Outcomes in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Uganda, and Tanzania
Tiwari, Sailesh - 2017
Using nationally representative household survey data from five countries -- three from South Asia (Bangladesh …, Pakistan, and Nepal) and two from Sub-Saharan Africa (Tanzania and Uganda) -- this paper conducts a systematic assessment of …
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