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Myanmar's apparel industry in the new international environment : prospects and challenges
Kudo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
Myanmar’s apparel industry had long been denied access to Western markets due to sanctions against its military government. The birth of a "civilian" government in March 2011 improved Myanmar’s relations with the international community, and Western sanctions were largely lifted....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147336
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The Shrimp Export Boom and Small-Scale Fishermen in Myanmar
Okamoto, Ikuko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
This paper examines the impact of the recent shrimp export boom in Myanmar on the economic state of small …-scale fishermen. Results indicate that there has been an active increase in shrimp fishing stimulated by expanding export demand. With …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005222504
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The middle-income trap from the viewpoint of trade structures
Kumagai, Satoru - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
regression analyses on the relationship between income level and net export ratios for different types of goods for trapped and … the flying-geese model for non-trapped countries while trapped countries tend to depend on the export of primary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960464
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Trade policies and trade mis-reporting in Myanmar
Kubo, Koji - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
partner countries indicate deficits. Such discrepancies in mirror trade statistics are analyzed in connection with the ‘export … export-tax-deducted export earnings. Under this policy, the recorded imports and exports of the private sector have been …-reporting in accordance with the supply and demand of the export earnings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650722
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Bilateral tariff rates in international trade : finished goods versus intermediate goods
Hayakawa, Kazunobu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
In this paper, we examined back-and-forth international transactions through tariff reduction by estimating modified gravity equations for finished goods and intermediate goods separately. Our main findings are as follows. Exports of finished machinery products are negatively associated with not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351446
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Tariff reductions and labor demand elasticities : evidence from Chinese firm-level data
Sato, Hitoshi; Zhu, Lianming - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
heterogenous firm model in which firms are allowed to export their products and to use imported intermediate inputs. The model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757634
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Analysis on International Trade of CLM Countries
Lwin, Nu Nu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009
Since their accession to AFTA, trade volumes of CLM countries have being grown rapidly while their trade patterns and directions have significantly changed. Recognizing the importance of international trade in CLM economies, this study attempts to analyze the trade patterns of CLM countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522408
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Sri Lanka's Trade Policies: Back to Protectionism
Pursell, Garry; Ahsan, F.M. Ziaul - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
In 1977 Sri Lanka was the first of the South Asian countries to decisively move away from the protectionist import-substitution trade policies that for many years had damaged their economic efficiency and hobbled their economic growth. Albeit with back-tracking episodes, Sri Lanka's liberalising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861949
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Myanmar's non-resource export potential after the lifting of economic sanctions : a gravity model analysis
Kubo, Koji - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
disease". This study projects Myanmar's export potential by calculating counterfactual export values with an augmented gravity …
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