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the late 1990s. The paper concludes that for ASEAN middle-income countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and …
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. The instruments used include export taxes, price controls, production quotas, and domestic producer and consumer taxes …
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We verify whether cocoa prices could be a source of inflation in five countries of the West African region within a … influence of cocoa prices on consumer price inflation is strong and statistically significant. The influence of the budget …
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This study investigates the Indonesian cocoa production to reveal the possibilities for poverty alleviation while … frontier analysis, the technical efficiency of cocoa production and decompose productivity growth. According to our results …, the productivity of Indonesian cocoa farming increased by 75 percent between 2001 and 2013. Technical efficiency growth …
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. It traces the historical development of the cocoa industry in Malaysia, with emphasis on the policies which have been … protection for a fairly large number of developing countries, and a detailed analysis for three developing countries. Malaysia … presents parts of the findings of the Subproject on The Magnitude and Structure of Agricultural Price Protection in Malaysia …
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The paper analyzes the link between human capital and firm-level productivity in five Asian countries. It draws on a dataset of over 4,000 enterprises and considers both the prior educational attainment of workers and in-service training programs of enterprises. Differences between small,...
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Commodity prices have become volatile over the past 2 decades, and their recent sharp decline has decreased the consumer price index inflation rates for most economies. While many Asian economies have benefited from low international oil and food prices, commodity exporters have suffered. Thus,...
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natural rubber, synthetic rubber and crude oil are cointegrated. Both policies under consideration {an export tax and several …
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. These economies are: China, Hong Kong, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore …
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sample comprised of 29 domestic and foreign Islamic banks from Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei over the period of 2006 …
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