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The Unabated Proliferation of Preferential Trade Agreements. The Case of EU and Japan

Ghibutiu, Agnes; Oehler-Sincai, Iulia Monica - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 5 (2013) 3, pp. 27-31

- the EU, U.S. and Japan - in the most recent period. Our paper aims to address these new deals, as illustrated by the … current negotiations for a deep and comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the EU and Japan launched in March 2013 …

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Personal Financial Literacy Among High School Students in New Zealand, Japan and the United States

Cameron, Michael P.; Calderwood, Richard; Cox, Ashleigh; … - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2013

this paper we compare financial literacy of high school students in Hamilton, New Zealand, with samples from Japan and the …, but is substantially worse in New Zealand and the United States than in Japan. The performance is similar across themes …

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Improving International Relations at the Grass Roots: Japanese Student Attitudes to Japanese - Korean relations

Meyer-Knapp, Helena; Matsuda, Yoko - In: Japan Social Innovation Journal 3 (2013) 1, pp. 1-11

surveyed. In response to various questions about the region, opinions varied in five arenas: travel, foreign language, history …, current affairs and popular culture. Over 100 raised questions themselves, wanting to learn more about Korea, Japan or the …

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Identifying vulnerabilities, exploring opportunities: reconfiguring production, conservation, and consumption in California rice

Mulvaney, Dustin - In: Agriculture and Human Values 25 (2008) 2, pp. 173-176

This paper describes a role for rural sociology in linking agrifood system vulnerabilities to opportunities for encouraging sustainability and social justice. I argue that the California rice industry is particularly vulnerable for two reasons. First, a quarter of rice growers’ revenues derive...

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Linkage between Benefit Expenditure and Premium Burden: Long-Term Care Insurance in Japan

Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi; Sugahara, Kota; Kunizaki, Minoru - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013

This study considers the discretionary premium-setting behavior of municipalities in the Japanese system of long-term care insurance (LTCI). Although, the LTCI system is managed by the municipality, but the financial system is controlled by national health insurers, and the municipality seems to...

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