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Integration under 'One Country, Two Systems' - The Case of Mainland China and Hong Kong-

Takeuchi, Takayuki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006

Ever since the handover of the territory in 1997, Hong Kong has had its own unique law and its own economic system and international legal personality, and has not been integrated with Mainland China. The Basic Law guarantees the uniqueness of the Hong Kong SAR until 2047. But close economic...

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Measuring Fiscal Decentralization in the Philippines

Uchimura, Hiroko; Suzuki, Yurika - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009

This paper focuses on the fiscal decentralization in the Philippines after the 1991 Local Government Code. It first … examines the intergovernmental fiscal relationship between central and local governments by using fiscal decentralization … indicators, and then investigates its impact on local finance. After fiscal decentralization, the local expenditure …

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Yangtze River Delta's system integration: institutional barriers and countermeasures

Zhang, Yu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010

This paper addresses the issue of institutional barriers to the Yangtze River Delta integration and the resulting slow development. It analyzes the problems including the coordination of local interests and regional interests, market segmentation during the regional integration, competition for...

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Border Industry in Myanmar: Turning the Periphery into the Center of Growth

Kudo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007

The Myanmar economy has not been deeply integrated into East Asiaâ€™s production and distribution networks, despite its location advantages and notably abundant, reasonably well-educated, cheap labor force. Underdeveloped infrastructure, logistics in particular, and an unfavorable business...

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Rules of Origin and Local Content in East Asia

Kuroiwa, Ikuo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006

Rules of Origin (RoO) are an integral part of all trade rules. In order to be eligible for Common Effective Preferential Tariffs (CEPT) under AFTA and similar arrangements under the ASEAN-China FTA, a product must satisfy the conditions relative to local content. The paper tries to calculate...

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Border Trade and Economic Zones on the North-South Economic Corridor: Focusing on the Connecting Points between the Four Countries

Tsuneishi, Takao - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009

The North-South Economic Corridor (NSEC), the road between Bangkok and Kunming, China, including the Laos route (R3B) and the Myanmar route (R3B), has been developed since 1998 following the GMS program. The region covering Yunnan Province in China, Shan State in Myanmar, Northern Laos and...

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Geographical simulation analysis for logistics enhancement in Asia

Kumagai, Satoru; Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Isono, Ikumo; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

This paper presents a simulation of the reduction of several components in trade cost for Asia and examines its impact on the economy. Our simulation model based on the new economic geography embraces seven sectors, including manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors, and 1,715 regions in 18...

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Impacts of common rules of origin on FTA utilization

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Nuttawut, Laksanapanyakul - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

This paper examines empirically the impacts of sharing rules of origin (RoOs) with other ASEAN+1 free trade agreements (FTAs) on ASEAN-Korea FTA/ASEAN-China FTA utilization in Thai exports in 2011. Our careful empirical analysis suggests that the harmonization of RoOs across FTAs play some role...

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Export platform foreign direct investment : theory and evidence

Ito, Tadashi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

This paper proposes a model that accounts for â€œexport platformâ€ FDI â€“ a form of FDI that is common in the data but rarely discussed in the theoretical literature. Unlike the previous literature, this paperâ€™s theory nests all the typical modes of supply, including exports,...

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Value added trade and structure of high-technology exports in China

Kuroiwa, Ikuo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

This study focuses on the technological intensity of China's exports. It first introduces the method of decomposing gross exports by using the Asian international inputâ€“output tables. The empirical results indicate that the technological intensity of Chinese exports has been significantly...

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