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Services as a new engine of growth for ASEAN, the People's Republic of China, and India
Shepherd, Ben; Pasadilla, Gloria O. - 2012
An increasing services orientation is likely to be a key feature of the economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People's Republic of China, and India (collectively referred to as "ACI") over the medium-term. This paper aims to present a compendium of relevant data on...
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Global economic crisis : impact and restructuring of the services sector in India
Das, Abhijit; Banga, Rashmi; Kumar, Dinesh - 2011
The Indian economy has shown considerable resilience to the global economic crisis by maintaining one of the highest growth rates in the world. The services sector accounted for around 88% of the growth rate in real gross domestic product in 2008-09. To demystify the relatively resilient growth...
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Designing Instrument Packages for the Low-Carbon Transition : An Evaluation Framework with an Application to Austria
van der Werf, Edwin; Vollebergh, Herman R.J; Vogel, Johanna - 2021
commercial (buildings) sector in an ambitious country, Austria …
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Price Effects of the Austrian Fuel Price Fixing Act : A Synthetic Control Study
Becker, Maike; Pfeifer, Gregor; Schweikert, Karsten - 2021
whether they indeed help lower the overall fuel price level is unclear. In this paper, we study the effect of Austria’s Fuel … estimate Austria’s price trends in absence of the intervention. Our empirical results suggest, that immediately after the Fuel … prices appears to be less pronounced and amounts to 6.6% lower prices. Austria’s fuel price regulation seems to have been …
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Optimization of high-speed railway station location selection based on accessibility and environmental impact
Roy, Sandeepan; Maji, Avijit - 2019
High speed railway (HSR) planners aim to select locations that optimize the overall utility or benefit of HSR stations by satisfying various desirable requirements. Among other factors, accessibility and environmental impact are important considerations for HSR station location selection. The...
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COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination and household expenditures : regional evidence from Turkish credit card data
Gul, Selcuk; Hacıhasanoğlu, Yavuz Selim; Kazdal, Abdullah - In: Applied economics letters 31 (2024) 11, pp. 988-991
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The ASEAN services sector and the growth rebalancing model
Mercado-Aldaba, Rafaelita A.; Pasadilla, Gloria O. - 2010
The growth rebalancing model, which places the nontradable services sector on center stage, is important to spur on faster growth in this sector and tap its potential to become another engine of growth for ASEAN economies. While ASEAN countries have allocated the bulk of their fiscal stimulus...
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Impact of services trade liberalization on employment and people movement in South Asia
Chanda, Rupa - 2011
Services have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector employment in South Asia and the extent to which countries in this region are proactively undertaking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407784
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Service sector productivity and economic growth in Asia
Lee, Jong-Wha; McKibbin, Warwick J. - 2014
This paper explores the impacts of more rapid growth in labor productivity in the service sector in Asia based on an empirical general equilibrium model. The model allows for input-output linkages and capital movements across industries and economies, and consumption and investment dynamics. We...
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Trade Costs in Services : Firm Survival, Firm Growth and Implied Changes in Employment
Christen, Elisabeth M. - 2020
This paper provides new insight into the firm-level employment impacts of trade cost changes at the industry level in the Austrian services sector. We apply a two-part model of firm survival (exit) and firm growth. Separate regressions for firm entry rates at the industry-region level complete...
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