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    Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos (IESE) (IESE)

    IESE is an independent Mozambican nonprofit organisation, which conducts and promotes interdisciplinary scientific research on problems of social and economic development in Mozambique and Southern
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    Transformations for sustainable development: promoting environmental sustainability in Asia and the Pacific

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2016
    Asia and the Pacific is a dynamic region. Regional megatrends, such as urbanization, economic and trade integration and rising incomes and changing consumption patterns, are transforming its societies and economies while multiplying the environmental challenges.
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    South-South cooperation: mapping new frontiers

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2016
    Ideological solidarity apart, what has imparted an added traction and resonance to South-South Cooperation is a marked increase in intra-South trade, investment and developmental cooperation.
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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.
  • Document

    World Trade Organization (first 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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    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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    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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    Preferential rules of origin for the Japan-Philippine economic partnership: issues and prospects

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    The design of rules of origin (ROO) in preferential trade agreements is critical because to the extent that it determines which products are eligible for trade preferences, it influences the magnitude of economic benefits arising from a free trade area (FTA) and who gets them. The challenge in the JPEPA is to craft an ROO that fosters trade but at the same time pegs transaction costs low.
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    Prospects and problems of expanding trade with Japan: a survey of Philippine exporters

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004
    This paper looks at firm-level factors that affect Philippine exports to Japan with the main objective of recommending provisions for the proposed Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) that will enable existing and prospective Philippine exporters to fully exploit the potential of the Japanese market.
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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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