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This paper uses regional panel data to investigate the mechanism of how FDI has contributed to China’s regional … effects on regional export and regional income growth varied across east, central and west China since the second half of the … 1990s, depending on FDI-orientation in different regions. In east China, geographical advantage in export attracts FDI …
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This paper examines the impact of the global financial crisis on Cambodia, and the lessons learned. Cambodia is an interesting case study: after extremely rapid economic growth 2000-07, it experienced a sharp growth collapse in 2008-09. This highlighted a number of its peculiar vulnerabilities,...
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Thailand’s impressive long-term rate of economic growth has resulted mainly from accumulation of physical capital. Significant total factor productivity growth can be identified at an aggregate level, explaining as much as one third of the aggregate growth of output. But this TFP growth was...
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The end of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009 generated widespread expectations of a period of sustained economic growth, building on the achievements of the liberalisation reforms sustained over three previous decades. However, recent developments have dampened that optimism, rekindling...
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The objective of this paper is to examine whether financial development leads to economic growth or vice versa in the small open economy of Malaysia. We argue that the results obtained from cross-sectional studies are not able to address this issue satisfactorily and highlight the importance of...
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This paper examines the determinants of private saving in the process of economic development, in the light of the Indian experience during the period 1954 - 1998. The methodology involves the estimation of a saving rate function derived within the life cycle framework while paying attention to...
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This paper revisits the discussion about the contribution of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth to Indonesia’s economic growth during 1970-2007. It re-estimates the contribution of TFP to economic growth during this period on the basis of new estimates of GDP, capital stock,...
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This paper examines the export experience of China and other East Asian economies in the aftermaths of the global …
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. China has multiple objectives to develop a low carbon economy and to decrease carbon dioxide emission per unit of GDP … protection, poverty alleviation, employment and natural conservation). In this regard, China's actions are more at the active … side than from a pressure outside. However, there are some suspicions in the international society about whether China has …
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The Chinese leadership in November 2013 determined to embark upon a new wave of comprehensive reforms in China. This is … clearly reflected by the key decision of the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China to assign … in China, provides some analysis of these energy price reforms, and suggests few areas of reforms could take place in …
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