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The Silk Road Economic Belt – a Strategic Opening of the Chinese Economy
Dumitrescu, George Cornel - In: Revista de Economie Mondiala / The Journal of Global … 6 (2014) 2
consolidation of China`s position and prestige in Central Asia and worldwide. This includes the recent launch of a strategic project …
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Service Exports: The Next Engine of Growth For Hong Kong?
Leung, Frank; Chow, Kevin; Szeto, Jessica; Tam, Dickson - Hong Kong Monetary Authority - 2008
Increasing economic integration with Mainland China has contributed to the rapid expansion of service exports in Hong …
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Market Access: Unfinished Business: Post-Uruguay Round Inventory and Issues
Marc Bacchetta. - eSocialSciences - 2007
This study has two closely related objectives: to evaluate post-Uruguay Round market access conditions and to contribute to a clarification of the stakes in the ongoing process of multilateral trade negotiations in the market access area. Industrial tariffs are included along with and...
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India-ASEAN Cooperation in Services: An Overview
Karmakar, Suparna - eSocialSciences - 2005
This paper analyses the opportunities in services trade that may arise out of the India-ASEAN Economic Cooperation to makes an assessment of the net gains that could arise from liberalisation of the commercially traded service sector. The study suggests that at least in the medium term, there is...
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Public Services and GATS
Adlung, Rolf - eSocialSciences - 2005
The status of public services is one of the most hotly debated issues surrounding the GATS. There are two approaches to distinguish such services from any other services: an institutional approach that focuses on the legal and institutional conditions governing supply (e.g. ownership status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528335
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The Contribution of Services Liberalisation to Poverty Reduction: What Role for the GATS?
Adlung, Rolf - eSocialSciences - 2007
There are various conceivable links between services liberalization and poverty reduction, including the efficiency effects associated with increased competition in intermediate (infrastructural) services, income transfers generated by workers moving abroad, or the mobilization of private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699050
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Outline of the 12th Five Year Plan: Plan for Development of Trade in Services
China, Ministry of Commerce - eSocialSciences - 2012
. The period of the plan is from 2011 to 2015. [Ministry of Commerce, China]. …
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Are Housing Prices Rising Too Fast in China?
Ahuja, Ashvin; Cheung, Lillian; Han, Gaofeng; Porter, Nathan - eSocialSciences - 2011
Sharp increase in house prices combined with the extraordinary lending growth in Mainland China during 2009 has led to … concerns of an emerging real estate bubble. We find that, for China as a whole, the current levels of house prices do not seem …€™ mass-market and luxury segments. Unlike advanced economies before 2007-8, prices have tended to correct frequently in China …
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Managing labour migration : the case of the Filipino and Indonesian domestic helper market in Hong Kong
Ignacio, Emilyzen; Meijia, Yesenia - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2009
Examines and compares the various institutional arrangements for regulating migration that have been developed in Indonesia and the Philippines, referring to them generally as "migration infrastructure". The study sought to determine whether these have any impact on the relative conditions of...
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Third world multinationals: technology choice and employment generation in Nigeria
Nambudiri, C. N. S - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1983
ILO pub. Working paper on the role of developing countries multinational enterprises as regards choice of technology and employment creation in Nigeria - based on a literature survey and five case studies of industrial enterprises, analyses characteristics of labour intensiveness, use of local...
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