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Imports are increasingly becoming a significant source of Japan's pork supply. Japan's share of imports to total consumption increased from 9 percent in 1980 to 24 percent in 1990, reaching a maximum of 44 percent in 1996. Under the World Trade Organization (WTO) safeguard provisions for pork,...
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This paper provides a summary measure of the possible new commitments in the area of market access undertaken by the European Union and the United States, using the Trade Restrictiveness Index (TRI) as the tariff aggregator. Indicators such as the TRI, based on welfare theory, integrate economic...
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This article deals with fundamental and topical problems of taxation policy, viewing the subject from both a German and an international perspective. Traditional income tax regimes in developed countries with their progressive tax rates are still based upon the redistributive philosophy which...
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New trends in global economy require greater capacity of the agricultural workforce. In order improve agricultural productivity it is needed to increase the level of human capital of the agrarian population. Human capital is accumulatedknowledge, created in the long term process of human...
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Large estimates of the benefits of microeconomic reform have been put forward in official studies. By contrast, Quiggin …. Overstated claims about the benefits of microeconomic reform have distorted Australia's economic priorities and encouraged an …
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contrast two insurance regimes; the status quo of mandated pooling of all risk types and the reform proposal being insurance … with risk-type separation over time, using Bayesian updating. Most individuals would benefit from the reform since their … risk type is better than the average but the reform does not occur due to individual uncertainty. …
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-history analysis of the determinants of reform in the telecommunications and electricity sectors of as many as 205 countries and … borrowing countries. We discuss the possibility that, by pressuring countries into policy reform, cross-national coercion and …
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-income tax is the best option when looking at tax reform. …
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While reform of the financail system has been high on the political agenda in Japan since the 1990s, consumer …
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enterprises (SOEs) in this industry were included in the Master Plan for State Enterprise Sector Reform. Considering the extent of … political background material on: the SOE sector; reform and privatisation of SOEs; SOEs, restructuring and regulation in the … in light of Thai characteristics and economy. ESI reform requires proper sequencing. Building up regulatory capacity and …
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