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The first price runs for Korean rice help us develop a Smithian physiocratic model to explain the low, stable prices of the eighteenth century and the rising, volatile prices of the nineteenth. Ownership rights provided incentives, and productivity after 1600 exceeded subsistence to achieve...
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Abolishing a nearly 50-year-old policy for rice price support, Korea adopted a new direct payment program in 2005 …
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Abolishing a nearly 50-year-old policy for rice price support, Korea adopted a new direct payment program in 2005 … the WTO disciplines, Korea may continue to transfer its support into a decoupled, Green Box type measure. …
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This study analyses the trends in the real prices of steers destined for the Japanese and Korean market, and cows destined for the USA market when sold in Queensland (QLD) or New South Wales (NSW). The aim of this paper is to explore how these prices have influenced each other when faced with...
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The possession of key international technical standards in some technology-based sectors can provide considerable advantages for firms wishing to internationalize rapidly and early. Avaro, a start-up Korean company, developed and owned a critical standard in the emerging international mobile...
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Since the early 1960s, South Korea has been going through a rapid fertilitydecline, along with its socioeconomic … totalfertility rate (TFR) of Korea has gradually declined to the level of lowest-low fertility.According to 2004 vital statistics …, the TFR for Korea was 1.16-below the lowest-lowfertility level of 1.3. Also, Korea's fertility rates have fluctuated and …
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-reaching, they are poorly understood. Overweight and obesity have become a major public health problem in South Korea, along with its … Korea Health and Nutrition Survey, conducted in 1998 and 2001, and time series data, such as those on imports and prices … national health policies affect obesity in South Korea?; which factors among dietary intake, physical exercise, prices, income …
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Japan, Korea, and China, while at the same time illuminating the mechanism that has driven the narrowing in the productivity …, fluctuations in the ranking are relatively frequent in the case of Korea. Third, in Korea, the TFP levels of low-performing firms …
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Japan and South Korea, this paper aims to investigate the impacts of outsourcing on different sectors of the labor market … attainment have changed substantially both in Japan and Korea. Second, the overall effects of total outsourcing in terms of … increasing (decreasing) the relative demand for workers with higher (lower)education have been insignificant in Korea partly …
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material flow accounting and related policies in Korea.The compiled national economy-wide material flow account by this project … reveal the trend of total material input and consumption during the past 15 years in Korea. Total volume of material input … in Korea under the OECD guidance, with identified weaknesses in the current statistics system, areas of concern and …
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