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Political and Economic Opening as a Post-Crisis Strategy for Japan
Full text linkIn economics literature, the sources of economic growth in general and in Japan in particular have been appraised either from the supply-side, with the emphasis on capital accumulation, labour, total factor productivity and – given the advent of the new growth models – on technological change, or from the demand side. The study on Japanese growth by Chenery et al. (1962) was an early demand-based study that looked at the drivers of economic growth and structural change over the period 1914-1954. Using input-output methods and taking into account the contribution of technological change11 over this long-time period, the authors found two distinct early sub-periods of economic growth: the 1914-1935 and the 1935-1954 sub-periods. The first (1914-1935) is characterised by a rise in domestic income (by 4.5 per cent per annum) with large increases in exports. The second (1935-1954) is marked by the loss of colonial supplies of raw materials and by a substantial fall in exports; this second sub-period is also marked by import substitution policies and by the rising importance of technological change. The findings for the first sub-period mirror Japan’s emergence as an economic and geostrategic power, affirming first its colonial ambitions in East-Asia through the development of its many manufacturing networks, in the region as a whole and in Korea in particular (Inkster, 2001)
Eu enlargement and agricultural trade between new and old member states: any changes one year after accession?
No full textThe paper aims to evaluate whether or not the last EU enlargement to the new 10 member states (EUN-10) has influenced the intra EU trade of agricultural products. In particular, the analysis focuses on the effects on trade between two groups of countries EU-15 and EUN-8 (i.e. the Central-Eastern Europe new members countries) of the EU-accession process. The import-export flows show a noticeable increase in trade between the two areas over the last decade. This increase surely stems from the opening up process, but according to second best theory in international trade which applies to Customs Unions – it not necessarily favours efficiency as far as social welfare is concerned. The analysis shows also that the comparative advantages in certain products - which ten years ago fuelled trade- do not appear to have altered the position of the two groups of countries. Focusing on agricultural products the integration process, which was already underway during the pre-accession period, has maintained and not reduced their specific specialization
Analisi di redditività nell'impresa cooperativa di trasformazione e vendita: un confronto tra DPP e margine di contribuzione per prodotto
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The Role of Agriculture in Rural and Urban Areas of a Region with Widespread Industrialization
No full textThe paper proposes a methodology aiming at classifying a region into different areas in order to better modelling rural development policies and to highlight the specific multifunctional roles played by agriculture in areas characterized by different levels of rurality. In particular, by examining a case study, the paper highlights the need to adapt international methodologies to the specific socio-economic structure of a region, in order to better targeting policy actions. The case study is referred to Veneto, an Italian region well known for its diffused-industrialization model based on SMEs. A OECD-modified area classification is proposed and statistically and GIS-comparatively tested. The suggested area classification of Veneto should include: a) the rural area where agriculture plays a limited role in producing market goods but a relevant one in supplying environmental and recreational services and internalizing into the market some of them; b) the rural-urban area where market-oriented agriculture is relevant and it answers to important social needs such us low housing social cost, environmental friendly practices, high quality products supply and a balanced link between agriculture and low-medium scale manufacturing sector; c) the urban area where agriculture is marginal in food supply but it can play a relevant role in providing environmental, recreational and social services to its residents. Finally, the comparison of our results with other more general classifications shows that, in some cases, anchoring policy decisions on a general definition of rural areas could identify as rural only marginal areas
EU enlargement: the impact on agricultural and food exports from selected Asian countries to the EU market - A gravity approach
Full text linkThe process of EU economic integration took place gradually. The 5th enlargement in 2004 was the largest expansion of the EU. It affected the agricultural sector notably due to the economic structure of the new members from Central and Eastern Europe. This chapter aims to examine the effect of the 5th enlargement on exports of agricultural and food products from 8 major Asian countries toward the EU market. The refined gravity model is employed, using annual data during 1999 to 2015 with 12 product groups. The empirical findings reveal that the total exports of agricultural and food products from Hong Kong and Korea reduce, whereas exports from Indonesia increase. There was no significant change in exports of total agricultural products and food from China, India, Japan, Malaysia and Thailand. However, changes in exports of certain products in various countries are found
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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