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The core issue raised in Globalization and its Discontents, what is the critical evaluation of the IMF's role in the … financial crisis in Asian countries and modern Russian transition. The Asian crisis began in July 1997 when the Thai devaluation …
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In this paper the issue of indirect tax reform, with a special focus on customs duty reform is examined. [WP]
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products ranging from consumer goods to financial services. There are even hopes that the Asian consumer will replace the US as …
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This paper analyzes recent economic and diplomatic relations between Peru and Asia, with emphasis on China, Japan and … value-added exports to China and Japan. Furthermore, Peru´s booming extractive industries have not only benefitted from … Asian demand, but also from significant new direct investment, and from efforts by Asian firms to comply with global …
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This paper considers the choices facing the Asian tiger economies regarding growth strategies that foster trans … surplus but that there is considerable variation across the countries, with Hong Kong, China exhibiting the biggest increase …
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This brief gendered history of Taiwan’s and Korea’s labor markets indicates a recent reversal in the persistent gender wage gaps that were long sustained by state policies that created and reproduced surplus labor conditions. The relative decline of manufacturing employment since the...
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In recent years, crime has become a serious concern in Mexico as its increase has detrimentally affected government institutions and economic growth. There is considerable speculation among policy analysts about the causes of the increase in crime. Whereas some analysts attribute the increase to...
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After 1980, the Taiwanese economy was marked by technological change, growing overseas investment by Taiwanese firms, and continuing success with export-oriented manufacturing. In the manufacturing sector these developments coincided with a decline in women's employment opportunities relative to...
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A simple three-sector general equilibrium model has been developed with both male and female labour and factor market distortions. The effects of different liberalized economic policies have been examined on the gender-based wage inequality. The analysis finds that credit market reform and...
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This paper explores the connection between the external opening of China and differences in innovation across Chinese … levels and innovation, where both the lower middle-income and the most advanced regions gain from globalization in terms of … increased innovation and productivity. In relative terms, the higher middle-income regions gain less from globalization than the …
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