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Automation will be a boon or a catastrophe depending on whom you listen to. This paper proposes an overlapping-generations model with endogenous school choice in which the quality of a country's education system determines how well skill supply can respond to increased demand from automation and...
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one of the most demanded skills by the employers. Although employers across India asks for the same set of soft skills …
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control trial implemented in an online job portal in India. Job seekers who registered in the portal were asked to take a Big …
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This paper applies a partial equilibrium model to analyze the fiscal revenue implications of the prospective economic partnership agreement between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union. The authors find that, under standard import price and substitution...
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The aim of this paper is to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon. During the recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon has enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty with the headcount index falling from 53.3 percent of inhabitants in 1996 to 40.2...
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This paper explores the economic implications of a potential free trade agreement between India and the United States … cuts for services. The overall impacts are likely to be positive for the United States and India. While gains from trade … initial protection in India is particularly high. India would experience an expansion of exports and output, especially in …
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India and Pakistan, the two largest economies in South Asia, share a common border, culture and history. Despite the … than half a percent of India's total trade, whereas Pakistan's trade with India was 5.4 percent of its total trade. However …, the recent thaw in India-Pakistan trade relations could signal a change. Pakistan has agreed to grant most favored nation …
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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 … India by 182 percent, and nearly 300 percent if transaction costs were also reduced through improved connectivity. These …
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Although both China and India are labor-abundant and dependant on manufactures, their export mixes are very different … twice as important for India as for China, which is much better integrated into global production networks. Even assuming … India also begins to integrate into global production chains and expands exports of manufactures, there seems to be …
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The authors examine the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in … between domestically produced goods and Chinese goods, whereas lower levels of protection toward goods imported from India can …
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