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IS THE INDUSTRIAL POLICY RELEVANT IN THE 21ST CENTURY?
Shafaeddin, Mehdi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine whether industrial policy has any place in industrialization and economic development of developing countries in the new world economy. The author argues that the answer to this question depends on the development objective of the country and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790086
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Economic Reforms and Agriculture in Bangladesh: Assessment of Impacts using Economy-wide Simulation Models
Raihan, Selim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
to note that under bilateral trading arrangements, such as India-Bangladesh bilateral FTA, there are scopes for increased … scenarios (a global agricultural trade liberalization scenario under WTO-Doha agreement, Bangladesh – India bilateral FTA, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259120
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Employment Effects of FTA Agreements: The Perspectives from Bangladesh
Raihan, Selim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Bangladesh has entered into several regional FTA agreements and is in the process of signing bilateral FTA agreements … different FTA scenarios. In the WITS/SMART model, three FTA scenarios are run which assume full elimination of bilateral tariff … between Bangladesh and India (under Bangladesh-India bilateral FTA), full elimination of bilateral tariff between Bangladesh …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108236
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Costs and benefits of trade liberalization
Hasan, Arsalan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Conventional economic theory advocates trade liberalization, and ultimately free trade because its benefits are said to outweigh its costs. This paper states the arguments for and against the liberalization of trade and then analyzes the case of Pakistan's trade liberalization. Some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685565
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Regional Trade Agreements in East Asia: Will They Be Sustainable?
Park, Innwon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Searching for sustainable regional trade agreements (RTAs) for East Asia, we quantitatively evaluated the likely impact of proposed East Asian RTA strategies─(i) the AFTA (a being-left-alone strategy), (ii) an ASEAN Hub RTA (a hub-and-spoke type of overlapping RTA strategy), (iii) the AFTA vs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837424
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South-South Trade: A Quantitative Assessment
Raihan, Selim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
a scenario of FTA among Emerging South, LDCs and SVEs and other developing countries would lead to some large welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109174
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Brazil’s Place in the Global Economy
Porzecanski, Arturo C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Brazil is a country with long-standing ambitions for a major role in the world economy and in global governance, but its footprint in various measures of both remains relatively modest. On current trends, the gap between ambition and achievement will likely remain large, so we provide a critique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257894
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Globalization and the Polish economy: stylized facts and simulations using a Computable General Equilibrium Model
Gradzewicz, Michał; Hagemejer, Jan; Zbigniew, Żółkiewski - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The aim of the paper is to quantitatively assess the impact of globalization on the economy of Poland in the medium term. Four channels of the impact of globalization are distinguished: (i) trade openness, (ii) productivity improvement, (iii) labour migrations, (iv) liberalization of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805822
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Trade Performance and Potential of the Philippines: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Gravity Model
Deluna, Roperto Jr - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This study was conducted to investigate the issue of what Philippine merchandise trade flows would be if countries operated at the frontier of the gravity model. The study sought to estimate the coefficients of the gravity model. The estimated coefficients were used to estimate merchandise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107897
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Literature review concerning the relationship between globalization and regionalization in the world economy
Balasan, Andrei-Cristian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper we review the literature on regionalization and globalization and implicitly the impact these two processes have over the world economy. Characterized by a several number of studies, this research is focused on different time periods, methodologies and model parameters. We identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108874