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Regional Trade Arrangements and Economies in Transition: The Central Asian Countries [PDF]
When it dissolved in 1991, the members of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) contained half a billion people (Table 1) - more than either the European Union or NAFTA today - and these countries were largely insulated from the market-driven
Richard Pomfret
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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Asian Regional Policy Coordination [PDF]
This paper addresses two central questions for Asia and the world: (1) What is the purpose of Asian regional policy coordination going forward? (2) Will Asian regional policy coordination substitute or complement global policy coordination?
Edwin M. Truman
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The impact of geography an natural resource abundance on growth in Central Asia [PDF]
, 2010 This paper examines the growth experience of the Central Asian economies after the breakup of the Soviet Union. In particular, it evaluates the impact of being landlocked and resource rich.
Felipe, Jesus, Kumar, Utsav
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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China’s influence on Kazakhstan’s economic cooperation with Central Asian countries
Экономика: стратегия и практика, 2020 Currently, China, as the largest economic power, exerts a powerful influence on neighboring countries in the region on various aspects of regional and international interaction: from military issues to economic cooperation.
L. A. Medukhanova, Z. A. Seriyeva
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
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Public diplomacy of Japan in Central Asia: the examples of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan
Halyk̦aralyk̦ k̦atynastar ža̋ne halyk̦aralyk̦ k̦u̇k̦yk̦ seriâsì, 2020 This study focuses on the role of public diplomacy in shaping and implementing Japan’s foreign policy in Central Asia. Based on elements of cultural empathy, Japan creates an attractive image in Central Asia through the active use of public diplomacy ...
A. Palkova, K. Bukovskis, M. Shamilov
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INFORMATION SECURITY IN THE COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL ASIA: THE CASE OF KAZAKHSTAN
MGIMO Review of International Relations, 2016 The article discusses the history of the creation and development of the overall concept of information security, the current state of the information security, as well as the appropriate legal and regulatory framework in the countries of Central Asia on the example of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Introductory part of the article analyzes and provides a
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〈Research Note〉Japan\u27s ODA Policy toward Central Asia and the Caucasus: An Analysis of Japanese Assistance to Economic Development in Kyrgyzstan and Armenia [PDF]
, 2018 Since the end of the Cold War, establishing partner relationships with other regions beyond Southeast Asia, such as Central Asia and the Caucasus, has served as a primary goal for Japan in asserting its foreign policy.
NAZARMUHAMEDOV Bobur
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