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Pan-Asianism in Japanese history has not received much scholarly attention so far. Indeed, as some scholars have pointed out (Beasley 1987a), it is questionable whether the notion of an ideology that only existed as a loose set of ideas and, moreover, had its foundations in European concepts,...
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Although the mere observation of saving aggregates might have us believe differently, this article argues that Singapore's sustained high saving performance was far from extraordinary once the country's particular circumstances are econometrically controlled for. Singapore's saving performance...
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We evaluate the effect of delivery mechanisms for training provided by facilitators of self help groups (SHGs). Indian SHGs are unique in that they are mainly NGO-formed microfinance groups but later funded by commercial banks. We correct for both membership and training endogeneity. Training...
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We evaluate the effect of training, in both skill development and human capital, provided by facilitators of self help groups (SHGs). Indian SHGs are unique in that they are mainly NGOformed microfinance groups but later funded by commercial banks. The results suggest that, in general, training...
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This study uses heterogeneous panel Granger causality tests to investigate the causal relationships between quality of governance and economic growth at the provincial level in China during the reform era. I find a significant and positive effect of economic growth on subsequent quality of...
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The Asia and the Pacific region has the largest number of family farms in the world. It is home to 60 per cent of the … less than 2 hectares on average, family farmers in Asia and the Pacific produce 80 per cent of the total food needed to …-economic development and well-being of the entire population of Asia and the Pacific. As the reports for the Food and Agriculture …
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This paper studies the phenomenon of service-led growth in India over the past two decades from the perspective of household expenditure. We use consumption expenditure data from four recent "thick" rounds of the National Sample Survey in 1993-94, 2004-05, 2009-10 and 2011-12, and study...
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In this paper an attempt is made to evaluate the most efficient approach to regional economic integration in Asia. For … the purpose, Asia is defined as inclusive of ASEAN, the plus three economies of China, Japan, Korea and India that is the … ASEAN plus four. Given that ASEAN is an existing regional bloc in Asia, alternative approaches to the alignment of the plus …
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Though Japan had been one of the top five investors in India for long, its share in India's total FDI inflows has been dwindling since 2000. Other countries have surpassed Japan in terms of their investment and market share in the Indian economy. In this context, this study attempts to analyse...
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At a time when regional production networks have been resurgent, especially in Asia, why has India's integration in … equipment categories (HS 85). Our field level interviews bore out some of these emerging trends and showed that while East Asia …, inadequate infrastructure and logistics, high interest rates and land costs, and an unstable policy environment. Although some …
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