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Shaping APEC: Perspectives from the Philippines
Medalla, Erlinda M.; Balboa, Jenny D. - 2007
APEC's vision of integrating the APEC has remained, for the most part, intangible. Cultural differences, socioeconomic disparity, and lack of a defined structure and leadership have been cited by many as major obstacles. Lately, there has been a proliferation of regional groups in Asia, creating...
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Trading Profiles and Developing Country Participation in the WTO Dispute Settlement System
Francois, Joseph; Horn, Henrik; Kaunitz, Niklas - 2008
It has been alleged since its inception that the WTO Dispute Settlement (DS) mechanism is biased against developing countries, as manifested in e.g. allegedly too low rates of dispute initiation. To shed light on this issue, this study analyses the determinants of developing country...
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Integrating poverty, gender and environmental concerns into value chain analysis: A conceptual framework and lessons for action research
Bolwig, Simon; Ponte, Stefano; du Toit, Andries; … - 2008
Many contemporary development solutions and policy prescriptions place emphasis on the potential for closer integration of poor people or areas with global markets. But the prospects for the reduct-ion of chronic poverty depend in great measure on the nature of the broader economic processes...
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A strategic framework and toolbox for action research with small producers in value chains
Riisgaard, Lone; Bolwig, Simon; Matose, Frank; Ponte, … - 2008
The paper presents a strategic and practical guide for how to design and implement action research in value chains in a way that integrates poverty, environmental and gender concerns. The focus is on small producers in developing countries and other weak chain actors such as small trading and...
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Global Value Chains, Technology Transfer and Local Firm Upgrading in Non-OECD Countries
Brach, Juliane; Kappel, Robert - 2009
The productivity and competitiveness of local firms in non-OECD countries depends as much on technological capacities and successful upgrading as in industrialized countries. However, developing countries undertake very little to no original R&D and primarily depend on foreign technology....
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Value chain innovations for technology transfer in developing and emerging economies: Concept, typology and policy implications
Swinnen, Johan F. M.; Kuijpers, Rob - 2016
The adoption of modern technologies in agriculture is crucial for improving productivity of poor farmers and poverty reduction. However, the adoption of modern technology has been disappointing. The role of value chains in technology adoption has been largely ignored so far, despite the dramatic...
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Risk, entitlements and fairness bias: Explaining preferences for redistribution in multi-person setting
Kataria, Mitesh; Montinari, Natalia - 2012
Researchers frequently studied the casual relationships of other-regarding preferences by applying experimental methods in bilateral settings (e.g., dictator game and ultimatum game). We use a framed experiment on taxes to study preferences for redistribution in a multi-person setting. We find...
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Quantifying risk and uncertainty in macroeconomic forecasts
Knüppel, Malte; Tödter, Karl-Heinz - 2007
This paper discusses methods to quantify risk and uncertainty in macroeconomic forecasts. Both, parametric and non … macroeconometric model of the Bundesbank for Germany. Forecast intervals that integrate judgement on risk and uncertainty are obtained. …
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The stability of efficiency rankings when risk-preferences and objectives are different
Koetter, Michael - 2006
different risk preferences and measure efficiency with a structural model based on utility maximization. Using the almost ideal … demand system, we estimate input and profit demand functions to obtain proxies for expected return and risk. Efficiency is … then measured in this risk-return space. Mean risk-return efficiency is somewhat higher than cost and considerably higher …
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The Provision of Local Public Services in a Risky Environment: An Application to Crime
Traub, Stefan - 2006
We state efficiency conditions for the provision of congestable local public goods that diminish individual-specific proprietary risks. The optimum level of such a public service is determined by equating the sum of the reductions of the expected property losses due to a better service level...
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