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The Trade Performance of Asian Economies During and Following the 2008 Financial Crisis

Wang, Jing - 2010

This paper documents and compares the trade performance of the major Asian economies both during and following the 2008 financial crisis. We consider China, India, Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Chinese Taiwan. We access separate country data files giving monthly trade...

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The Higher Educational Transformation of China and Its Global Implications

Li, Yao Amber - 2008

This paper documents the major transformation of higher education that has been underway in China since 1999 and evaluates its potential global impacts. Reflecting China's commitment to continued high growth through quality upgrading and the production of ideas and intellectual property as set...

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The Post MFA Performance of Developing Asia

Whalley, John - 2006

This paper assesses the impact thus far that the termination of trade restrictions under the Multi Fibre Arrangement (MFA) which up to the end of 2004 applied to exports of clothing and textiles in key OECD markets has had on Asian suppliers. The speculation prior to MFA termination had been...

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Numerical General Equilibrium Analysis of China's Impacts from Possible Mega Trade Deals

Li, Chunding - 2014

This paper explores the potential impacts on both China and other major countries of possible mega trade deals. These include the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and various blocked deals. We use a numerical 13-country global general...

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How Close is Asia to Already Being A Trade Bloc?

Li, Chunding - 2014

FTA bilateral and regional negotiations in Asia have developed quickly in the past decade moving Asia ever closer to an … another. For countries in Asia there is negotiation of a China-Japan-Korea agreement, a China-India agreement, a Trans … potential full Asia integration in the form of a trade bloc. Our results reveal that these large Asia economies can be close to …

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Linking External Sector Imbalances and Changing Financial Instability before the 2008 Financial Crisis

Whalley, John - 2011

Here we focus on the external sector component of financial instability and link changes in country imbalances to individual economy growth rates in ways when summed across countries produce indices of expected worsening or improving financial instability at different points in time. We compute...

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The Contribution of Chinese FDI to Africa's Pre Crisis Growth Surge

Weisbrod, Aaron - 2011

In the 3 years before the 2008 Financial Crisis, GDP growth in sub Saharan Africa (averaged over individual economies) was around 6%, or 2 percentage points above mean growth rates for the preceding 10 years. This period also coincided with significant Chinese FDI flows into these countries,...

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The 2008 Financial Crisis and the Lack of Retaliatory Trade Intervention

Li, Chunding - 2016

The 2008 financial crisis did not precipitate global retaliatory trade intervention, in seeming contrast to the Great Depression in 1930s. This paper discusses the influence of model structure in optimal tariff (OT) calculations in explaining this puzzle. We emphasize how earlier literature...

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The Environmental Regime in Developing Countries

Jha, Raghbendra - 1999

This paper discusses the environmental externalities that are commonly found in the developing world (the environmental regime) along with the policy responses, if any, commonly used to deal with these. Included are the effects of industrial emissions, air and water quality impacts of untreated...

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An Alternative View of Tax Incidence Analysis for Developing Countries

Shah, Anwar - 1990

This paper revisits the long-standing issue of the incidence of taxes in developing countries. Its central theme is that despite many decades of studies, tax incidence analyses for developing countries continue to be based upon the same shifting assumptions used in developed country studies,...

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