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China and India’s Development Strategies: Lessons for Developing CountriesAmelia U. Santos-Paulino and Guanghua Wan China and India have become global economic powers. Even at the market exchange rate, China overtook Japan...
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Spillover Effects of International StandardsMost studies focus on trade effects and organizational outcomes of international standards, neglecting the effect of standards on employees. Using a two-year matched firm–employee panel dataset, this paper finds that the application of standards...
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Labour Standards in Exports and Developing CountriesThis paper investigates the impact labour regulation, as defined by labour standards, have on the international trade regime. After providing a description of the debate's landscape, the paper focuses on the questions: Could the adoption of a...
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Unemployment, Labour Policies and Health in TransitionA sharp rise in unemployment and a sharp rise in mortality have been two recurrent aspects of the process of transition. In response to the unemployment challenge transitional economies have equipped themselves with labour market policies (LMPs)...
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From The Editor's Desk (December 2012)
Tony Addison This year has rushed by at speed. For UNU-WIDER it’s been a year of big successes. We will have published some 110 working papers by the...
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Viet NamIn analyzing Viet Nam's recent economic adjustments, this paper attempts to distinguish events and policies that are properly assigned to the transition effort (defined as the process of increasing the market determination of economic outcomes) and...
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Global Labour Standards and Local FreedomsPart of Book Wider Perspectives on Global Development
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Labour Standards in Exports and Developing CountriesPart of Book Globalization, Marginalization and Development
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What Can Latin America Learn from China's Labour Market Reforms?Part of Book Falling Inequality in Latin America
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Global Labour Standards and Local FreedomsKaushik Basu is known for the expert way in which he brings the tools of economic and philosophical analysis to bear on current development issues. In recent years his interests have included questions concerned with international labour standards...
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Fighting Unemployment and StressPart of Book The Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies
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