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The study investigates the impact of changes in terms of trade in Pakistan on its income and consumption potentials, by … employing two measures of terms of trade, namely, barter terms of trade and income terms of trade. The study examines Pakistans … terms of trade behaviour using time series data from 1990- 2008, and works out the losses the country had to bear owing to …
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The study suggests an approach to reduce India’s sensitive list under SAFTA. The concept of Revealed Comparative Advantage has been used to pair the RCAs for products on India’s sensitive list with the corresponding RCAs of the SAARC countries. Four categories of items are...
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The study suggests an approach to reduce India’s sensitive list under SAFTA. The concept of Revealed Comparative Advantage has been used to pair the RCAs for products on India’s sensitive list with the corresponding RCAs of the SAARC countries. Four categories of items are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650943
Throughout Pakistans history, policy has sought to promote exports through government support and incentives. The government machinery is geared to export promotion especially through direct and indirect subsidies. Surprisingly, these policies have been continued without serious examination....
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This paper asks how opening up of wheat and sugar trade between two nuclear neighbours, India and Pakistan, would … affect welfare in the two countries. We conduct a partial equilibrium analysis to simulate welfare implications of trade … between the two countries under three alternative trade regimes : a) under an FTA between India and Pakistan, b) under SAFTA …
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, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, covering the period from 1980 to 2003. The analysis is done with the help of tables …
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"Seasonal poverty in Bangladesh, locally known as monga, refers to seasonal deprivation of food during the pre … targeted poor to contain income seasonality and poverty in this impoverished part of Bangladesh. "--World Bank web site …
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"This paper analyzes the distributional impacts of trade reforms in rural areas of Bangladesh. The liberalization of … trade in irrigation equipment and fertilizer markets during the early 1990s has led to structural changes in the … in rural areas tend to be poorer than net sellers, trade liberalization has benefited the poor. Although the authors are …
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scenario has negative implications for the overall macroeconomy, household welfare, and poverty in Bangladesh. Terms of trade …"The authors examine the effects of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare, and … poverty in Bangladesh. They use a sequential dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, which takes into account …
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impacts of rural road projects using household-level panel data from Bangladesh. Rural road investments are found to reduce …
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