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Philippines-Japan Free Trade Agreement: Analyzing Its Potential Impact Using a Computable General Equilibrium Model
Yasutake, Taeko - 2004
This study analyzes the potential impact of the Philippines-Japan Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on the Philippine economy in case of the Philippines' discriminately unilateral tariff reduction on import from Japan using a computable general equilibrium model for the Philippine economy. The result...
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The Trade and FDI Effects of EMU Enlargement
Brouwer, Jelle; Paap, Richard; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2007
This paper considers the nature and the distribution of trade and FDI effects of a potential enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) to the 10 countries that obtained EU membership in 2004. One-way and two-way error component gravity models are estimated using a data set of unbalanced...
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Size and Impact of Privatisation – A Survey of Empirical Studies
Chahyadi, Candra S.; Megginson, William L.; Netter, … - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 1, pp. 3-11
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A convex hull approach to counterfactual analysis of trade openness and growth
Funke, Michael; Gronwald, Marc - 2009
with the literature arguing that greater trade openness would unequivocally lead to higher growth in Africa. …
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Are there pre-programme effects of Swedish active labour market policies? Evidence from three randomised experiments
Hägglund, Pathric - 2006
In this paper experimental data from three Swedish demonstration programmes in 2004 are used to study pre-programme effects of active placement efforts. In one of the experiments, targeted towards a broad group of UI receivers, arranged job-search activities in groups combined with increased...
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Rural class differentiation in Nigeria: Theory and practice - a quantitative approach in the case of Nupeland
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 14 (1979) 3, pp. 295-315
The knowledge of social stratification within the peasantry is a decisive precondition of sustainable economic and political measures for an effective support of agricultural production in least developed countries. This is one of the reasons why also in Nigeria social scientist focus on the...
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The Asian Drivers and Africa: Learning from Case Studies
Goldstein, Andrea E.; Pinaud, Nicolas; Reisen, Helmut; … - In: The World Economy 32 (2009) 11, pp. 1538-1542
then to promote African voices from various backgrounds to reflect Africa's heterogeneity. The introductory section … presents a summary of findings about the economic impact of the two Asian giants in SSA countries by Africa-based economists …
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The political economy of China's aid policy in Africa
Pehnelt, Gernot - 2007
announcements and assessments of major projects in Africa suggest that China has already overtaken the World Bank in lending to … Africa. In this article, we analyze China's aid policy in Africa from a political economy perspective. We show that China is … advantages of the People's Republic, especially in unstable nations and "rough" states. China's engagement in Africa causes some …
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Civil wars beyond their borders: the human capital and health consequences of hosting refugees
Baez, Javier E. - 2008
Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and thousands were forcibly uprooted from their homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a...
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Brainy Africans to fortress Europe: for money or colonial vestiges?
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2009
by sub-regions, the magnitude of the colonial vestige in Africa is a significant determinant of emigration flows. Overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269549