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Using highly disaggregated, Harmonized System (HS) 8-digit, product-category level data collected by the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) Customs Office for 2000 and 2008, we perform an in-depth anatomy of the PRC's trade in manufactured goods. First, we distinguish between foreign firms...
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“Factoryless” manufacturers, as defined by the U.S. OMB, perform underlying entrepreneurial components of arranging the factors of production but outsource all of the actual transformation activities to other specialized units. This paper describes efforts to measure “factoryless”...
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contract for manufacturing services, I show that domestic fragmentation: i) is far more prevalent than offshoring; ii) changes …
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This paper investigates the pattern of globalizing corporate activities of Japanese manufacturing firms and their domestic operations and international trade. More specifically, we compare changes in domestic operations and international trade of firms expanding operations in East Asia with...
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We examine how the structure of Australian production and trade has been affected by the expansion of global production networks. As conventional measures of international trade do not fully capture the impact of global supply chains, we present complementary estimates of value-added trade for...
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disconnected fragmentation of contributions to a topic. We believe, in fact, that such fragmentation is rife in modern social … a concern with advancing a ‘the pluralist project’ in which, where feasible, an integration of ideas takes centre stage. …
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fragmentation issue, a phenomenon discussed and analysed by financial experts, analysts, researchers and political leaders. The term … fragmentation can be seen in antithesis with the concept of integration, the presence of one not involving the entirely cancellation … of the existence and the effects of the second. However, a reduction in the effects of fragmentation may contribute to …
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period from 1995 to 2011. This picture changes when the fragmentation of production is considered. We find that the relative …
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conservation in a world of increasing population and a drying, fire-prone environment. At just 0.1% of Australia’s terrestrial land …
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