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China’s Investment in African Special Economic Zones: Prospects, Challenges, and Opportunities
Farole, Thomas; Brautigam, Deborah; Xiaoyang, Tang - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2010) 5, pp. 1-6
China’s recent moves to establish special economic zones (SEZs) in several African countries can make a significant … contribution to industrialization in Africa. But the success of these projects is by no means guaranteed. Meeting the objectives of … both China and African countries will require an active partnership and a framework for collaboration that includes …
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The Chinese challenge to the EU25
Roubal, Gabriele; Taube, Markus; Vieweg, Hans-Günther - In: CESifo Forum 6 (2005) 3, pp. 37-42
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Risks in the North Korean Special Economic Zone: Context, Identification, and Assessment
Lim, Sung-Hoon - In: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 47 (2011) 1, pp. 50-66
This paper examines the key factors (firm-specific conditions, political risk, and countermeasures for reducing political risk) affecting the risk assessment of the Kaesong Industrial Complex, a North Korean special economic zone extremely sensitive to the North Korean nuclear issue. The...
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Special Economic Zones: What Have We Learned?
Farole, Thomas - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 64, pp. 1-5
, SEZs have been credited with underpinning the dramatic export-oriented growth of China and other East Asian countries …
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Integration in the Absence of Institutions: China-North Korea Cross-Border Exchange
Noland, Marcus; Haggard, Stephan; Lee, Jennifer - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2011
Theory tells us that weak rule of law and institutions deter cross-border integration, deter investment relative to trade, and inhibit trade finance. Drawing on a survey of more than 300 Chinese enterprises that are doing or have done business in North Korea, we consider how informal...
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The Role of India in the Korean War
ChanWahn, Kim - In: International Area Studies Review 13 (2010) 2, pp. 21-37
The role of India in the Korean War is relatively little known either in Korea or India. For a student of Indian Studies in Korea and a student of Korean Studies in India of our time, a study of the role of India in the Korean War might provide one more useful perspective to understand the...
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Production, Productivity, and Public Investment in East Asian Agriculture
Fan, Shenggen; Brzeska, Joanna - In: Handbook of Agricultural Economics
Since the 1950s, agricultural growth in East Asia (China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan) has reduced …
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Networks, Trust, and Trade: The Microeconomics of China–North Korea Integration
Noland, Marcus; Haggard, Stephan - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2012
expectations of the engagement model and may prove self-limiting. The results also cast doubt that integration between China and …
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China’s Multiple Role(s) in World Politics: Decrypting China’s North Korea Strategy
Noesselt, Nele - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2014
China’s foreign policy choices. It argues that ideas about what China’s role as an actor in the increasingly globalized … international system should be, and about world order in general, deeply impact on China’s foreign policymaking process. Taking the … North Korean issue as a case study, this paper postulates that China is cur-rently engaged in a search for a ‘new’ identity …
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Emotions and International Conflicts: Sociological, Evolutionary and Rational Views
Khalil, Elias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In March 2005, riots erupted in South Korea against Japan for claiming sovereignty over some rocky uninhabited islets (0.23 km2). Five weeks earlier, riots did not erupt in South Korea when North Korea proved that it has nuclear weapons. How can we explain moral outrage in one case, when the...
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