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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

Myanmarâ€™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 Myanmarâ€™s relations with the international community, and Western sanctions were largely lifted....

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Causality Relationships between Total Exports with Agricultural and Manufacturing GDP in Tanzania

Shombe, Nicolaus Herman - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

This paper, investigates causal relationships among agriculture, manufacturing and export in Tanzania by using time … variables out of three jointly cause the third one. There is also some evidence that manufacturing does not cause export and … agriculture. Regarding cointegration, pairwise agricultural GDP and export are cointegrated, export and manufacture are …

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Tracing CO2 emissions in global value chains

Meng, Bo; Peters, Glen; Wang, Zhi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

This paper integrates two lines of research into a unified conceptual framework: trade in global value chains and embodied emissions. This allows both value added and emissions to be systematically traced at the country, sector, and bilateral levels through various production network routes. By...

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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 …

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Do electricity supply constraints matter for comparative advantage? : a neoclassical approach

Sato, Hitoshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

This paper examines the extent to which electricity supply constraints could affect sectoral specialization. For this purpose, an empirical trade model is estimated from 1990-2008 panel data on 15 OECD countries and 12 manufacturing sectors. We find that along with Ricardian technological...

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An export strategy and technology networks in the Republic of Korea

Mizuno, Junko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

In Korea, trade with Japan has had a deficit since the normalization of Japan-Korea diplomatic relations in 1965. Koreaâ€™s trade balance with Japan has remained in deficit since then, although Korean companies have become bigger compared to Japanese companies. My hypothesis is that the...

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Cost Reduction Effects of "pseudo FTAs" in Asia -Application of a price model based on a multilateral I/O table-

Tamamura, Chiharu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010

This paper examines the repercussion effects on the production cost of industries in Asian countries when some countries eliminate tariffs and import commodity taxes on all imports. This kind of analysis is related in some sense to that measuring the effects of FTAs on economies, and thus may be...

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Changes in the foreign trade structure of the Russian Far East under the process of transition toward a market economy

Hiraizumi, Hideki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007

Under the process of transition toward a market economy, the economic connections of the Russian Far East (RFE) with external regions changed from a division of labor among the regions of the USSR (Russia) to an international division of labor. This happened due to factors including the...

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On the variety of Mexico's export goods

Ito, Tadashi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

This paper examines the evolution of the variety of Mexicoâ€™s export goods using disaggregated trade data. Both the …) methodology proposed in this paper show that NAFTA membership does not enhance the variety of Mexico's export goods. This finding … contrasts with NAFTA's positive association with the increase in export variety found in the literature. …

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Shock Transmission Mechanism of the Economic Crisis in East Asia : An Application of International Input-Output Analysis

Kuroiwa, Ikuo; Kuwamori, Hiroshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010

This paper investigates the impacts of the 2008 economic crisis on industries in East Asia. By using the updated Asian international input-output table for 2008, the paper attempts to identify the transmission mechanism and the magnitude of impact of the crisis on industries in East Asia. The...

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