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    Chinese presence in real estate in South Africa and Mauritius

    Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2016
    ­­­China has recently taken the global community by surprise with a surging interest in overseas real estate investment.
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    G-20 development agenda and african priorities: an update

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016
    The G-20 has come to be seen as one of the world’s most important gatherings for the discussion of a range of issues broadly related to global economic governance. While the G-20 is significantly more representative of developing countries’ interests than other informal structures (such as the G-7), there is still only one permanent member from Africa – South Africa.
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    World Trade Organization (second of two parts)

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
    The Philippine entry to GATT has paved the way for trade reforms such as removal of trade restrictions. At the early stage of implementation, adjustment costs have burdened a number of economic agents including the domestic firms and agriculture sector. However, advancement of information technology is expected to result to a better conduct of liberalizing and reforming the global trade.
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    The Philippines in the global trading environment: looking back and the road ahead

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002
    The government of the Philippines has implemented substantial trade and investment policy reforms during the last two decades following a th ree-track approach involving unilateral, regional and multilateral modalities towards freer trade and investment.
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    Analyzing the impact of trade reforms on welfare and income distribution using CGE framework: the case of the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003
    Tariff reform, particularly tariff reduction, is one of the major economic reforms implemented in the last one and half decades in the Philippines. The paper attempts to analyse the effects of the tariff reduction from 1994 to 2000 on household income and welfare using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model calibrated to the 1994 social accounting matrix (SAM).
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    East Asian regional cooperation: approaches and processes

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002
    East Asia has been caught with regionalism in recent years. There has been a proliferation of bilateral and regional trading arrangement initiatives across the region.
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    Philippine-Japan bilateral agreements: analysis of possible effects on unemployment, distribution and poverty in the Philippines using CGE-microsimulation approach

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    The ongoing negotiations on the possible bilateral agreements between the Philippines and Japan cover a number of issues. However, the scope of the paper limits only to analysing the possible effects of reducing Philippine tariffs on imports from Japan of non-agricultural products and the potential impacts of increasing Philippine exports to Japan of non-agriculture products.
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    Strengthening bilateral trade and investment relationship Between Latin America and the Philippines: beyond economic diplomacy

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    Trade with nontraditional and distant markets has always been regarded as worth exploring in an effort to increase market shares amidst the downside effects of globalization and regional trade cooperation.
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    An Analysis of Industry and Sector-Specific Impacts of a Japan-Philippines economic partnership

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    This paper aims to identify industry and macro-level factors that affect competitiveness of selected sectors upon the implementation of the JPEPA. Priority sectors identified by the Department of Trade and Industry, accounting for 82% of total Philippine exports to Japan in 2002, were included in the study.
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    Two essays on regional economic integration in East Asia

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    Regional economic integration in East Asia has gained momentum in the aftermath of the 1997 financial crisis and the escalation of international terrorism. In the first essay, the integration process in Europe and East Asia is compared briefly. This is followed by a discussion on the expansion process by the European Union and how East Asia can learn from this.

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