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The Japanese Experience with Highway Development

David, Dharish - In: Journal of Infrastructure Development 6 (2014) 1, pp. 17-42

Japan now has one of the worldâ€™s most highly developed multimodal transport systems. This was only made possible by successfully building an extensive highway network in a short period of time. The two remarkable aspects of this network have been the scale and layout, which were based not...

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Low carbon and clean energy scenarios for India: Analysis of targets approach

Shukla, Priyadarshi R.; Chaturvedi, Vaibhav - In: Energy Economics 34 (2012) S3, pp. 487-487

Low carbon energy technologies are of increasing importance to India for reducing emissions and diversifying its energy supply mix. Using GCAM, an integrated assessment model, this paper analyzes a targets approach for pushing solar, wind, and nuclear technologies in the Indian electricity...

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Framing and modeling of a low carbon society: An overview

Kainuma, Mikiko; Shukla, Priyadarshi R.; Jiang, Kejun - In: Energy Economics 34 (2012) S3, pp. 316-316

Asian Modeling Exercise (AME) studies show feasible GHG emissions pathways consistent with the 2degrees centigrade global stabilization target. The aim of the low carbon society subgroup is to propose frameworks, modeling methodologies, and workable roadmaps that will transform in-situ...

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The global recession and China's stimulus package: A general equilibrium assessment of country level impacts

Diao, Xinshen; Zhang, Yumei; Chen, Kevin Z. - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 1, pp. 1-17

A dynamic computable general equilibrium model is developed to assess the impact of the recent global recession and the Chinese government's stimulus package on China's economic growth. By designing two scenarios – one with and one without the stimulus package – the model results show that...

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Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth

Morck, Randall; Nakamura, Masao - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Rosenstein-Rodan (1943) and others posit that rapid development requires a 'big push' -- the coordinated rapid growth of diverse complementary industries, and suggests a role for government in providing such coordination. We argue that Japan's zaibatsu, or pyramidal business groups, provided...

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North Korea : the last transition economy?

Koen, Vincent; Beom, Jinwoan - 2020

The North Korean economy has been a statistical black hole for decades but is undergoing substantial transformations. Rapid post-war industrialisation was not sustained beyond the mid-1960s and South Korea’s economy far outpaced North Korea’s during the next three decades, during which trend...

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Mainstreaming health insurance for people with disabilities

Palmer, Michael G.; Nguyen, Thi Minh Thuy - In: Journal of Asian Economics 23 (2012) 5, pp. 600-613

survey data from Vietnam and an appropriate two-part model, this paper examines the targeting effectiveness of public health …

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Assessment of a social discount rate and financial hurdle rates for energy system modelling in Viet Nam

Coleman, Brendan - 2021

Viet Nam’s sustained economic development is driving increasing demand for electricity with generation capacity predicted to nearly double over the next decade. With the majority of economic hydropower resources utilised, delays in coal power pipelines, and increasing energy insecurity, Viet...

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Catching-Up Industrial Development of East Asian Economies and Its Application to Vietnam

Ha, Ngo Trinh - In: Journal of Developing Areas 39 (2005) 1, pp. 71-98

industrializing economies. The paper further finds that Vietnam joined the regional network. However, its trade policy has been … impeding industrial development so that labor-intensive production has been untapped, on one hand, and Vietnam selected the …

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The Institutional Root Causes of the Challenges to Vietnam's Long-Term Economic Growth

Vu, Khuong M. - In: Asian Economic Papers 13 (2014) 1, pp. 159-189

Vietnam has achieved impressive economic growth since the dramatic deepening of its economic reforms in March 1989 …. Although Vietnam's achievements are laudable, the economy appears to face increasingly serious challenges to sustained, robust … economic performance in the long term. This paper analyzes Vietnam's economic growth to identify the institutional root causes …

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