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    Determinants of export performance in the Philippine manufacturing sector

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2006
    The importance of export as an economic activity and a driver of growth has long been established in various research endeavours. Issues addressed in these studies include quantifying the contribution of export to economic growth, designing appropriate trade and industrial policies, and identifying macroeconomic factors that affect trade performance.
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    An analysis of Philippine trade reforms in 1995-2000 using the 1994 APEX model

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
    There are three major developments in the area of foreign trade in 1990s: (a) the WTO-Uruguay Round agreement in 1995; (b) the AFTA agreement; and (c) the series of unilateral trade reform programs of the government.
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    Direct distribution of oil revenues in Venezuela: a viable alternative?

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2012
    Venezuela is the textbook case of a resource-rich country. Between 1950 and 2008, oil generated over $1 trillion of income for the state. The country’s proven reserves, at 7 million barrels per Venezuelan, are the largest in the world and will last 270 years at current production rates.
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    Why a new industrial policy for the Philippines is critical

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    For the past two decades, the Philippine manufacturing sector has failed to generate sustained growth and employment for the economy. This can be attributed to the stagnation of the sector due to its inability to generate foreign direct investments and to the absence of structural transformation from agriculture to manufacturing.
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    Key reforms for an effective regional comprehensive economic partnership

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is looking at Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a region-wide free trade agreement, as an important step toward a deeper and integrated production base in the region that is also open to the rest of the world.
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    Local Content Frameworks in Latin American and African oil and gas sector

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2015
    The limited nature of mineral resources and demands of the extractive sector require policymakers to find mechanisms to maximise the sector’s benefits.
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    The employment situation in Latin America and the Caribbean: challenges and innovations in labour training

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014
    In recent decades, vocational training institutes in Latin America and the Caribbean have made progress in finding responses to the challenges arising from the economic, production and technological changes taking place in the region.
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    Global boom, local impacts: mining revenues and subnational outcomes in Peru 2007-2011

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2014
    The relationship between the abundance of natural resources and socio-economic performance has been a main object of study in the economic development field since Adam Smith.
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    Building an employment service system for efficient utilization of national human resources

    Korea Development Institute, 2013
    Employment service is a core infra-service of the national economy by supporting lifetime job activity, business management, and effective utilization of national human resources through comprehensive job-related services.
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    Energy policies - Knowledge sharing program

    Korea Development Institute, 2013
    Korea rose from being one of the poorest countries in the 1960s to one of the top ten economies in the 21st century. Such an unprecedented economic achievement would not have been possible without a key role of energy.

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