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There is a strong presumption among economists that domestic reforms are promoted by regionalism. Yet strong empirical evidence for this proposition is lacking. This paper examines both the theoretical arguments and empirical evidence on this issue, drawing on the relevant economic, political,...
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There is a strong presumption among economists that domestic reforms are promoted by regionalism. Yet strong empirical evidence for this proposition is lacking. The purpose of the paper is to examine in some detail both the theoretical arguments and empirical evidence on this issue, drawing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120660
There is a strong presumption among economists that domestic reforms are promoted by regionalism. Yet strong empirical evidence for this proposition is lacking. This paper examines both the theoretical arguments and empirical evidence on this issue, drawing on the relevant economic, political,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315807
The 30 years of reform and opening have brought great material progress to China. By becoming a big country, China …’s actions created huge spillovers on other countries. The result has been a rise in trade tension between China and its trade … partners. Recently, some have claimed that China’s prolonged large trade surpluses have undermined global financial stability …
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Conventional wisdom holds that international trade agreements can be used as external pressures and credible commitments to overcome opposition and lock in domestic economic reforms. This belief, however, underestimates the ability of politicians to use international trade agreements to leverage...
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The purpose of this study is to discuss the trends of integration into the global economy since political and economic reforms (so-called Doimoi) and its influence on every presence of foreign investment in Vietnam. Lasting 20-year-war period and ended in 1975, by the mid-1980s per capita income...
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The recovery from the current deep recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will require raising productivity through structural reforms. This implies a number of challenges for economic policies. With large parts of the economy shielded from competition, firms face weak incentives to become...
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Vietnam has been following China's path closely and very successfully for the last two decades, since the adoption of … is the highest of all major Asian exporters (including China) since the mid-1990s. In the current international context … of emerging countries. Several obstacles might block this emergence, such as the rise of China and the stringent rules of …
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This paper analyzes the constitutional history of China, with the aim of explaining how and why the policies that … produced its rapid growth came to be adopted. The paper argues that constitutional reforms played important roles in China … influence of urban interests along China's east coast, which indirectly increased support for international trade and the …
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