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Bureaucracy and Pro-poor Change
Cheema, Ali; Sayeed, Asad - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
investigate the role of the bureaucracy as a key catalyst in this process. Weber (1968) ascribes bureaucracies to be anchors of … competent bureaucracy from the British Raj [Braibanti (1966)]. While part of the blame for this disconnect can be ascribed to … of this structure. Based on a logical model which places the bureaucracy within the larger context of the objective …
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The Role of the Private Sector in Regional Economic Integration : a View from the Philippines
Rosellon, Maureen Ane D.; Yap, Josef T. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The private sector is the driver of growth in most ASEAN economies. It is therefore expected to play a significant role in the process of economic integration in ASEAN. In the Philippines, the private sector has dominated the economy, contributing about 95 percent of GDP, but it has not lived up...
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The Impact of Private Sector Growth on Poverty Reduction : Evidence from Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper assesses the effect of public and private sector growth on poverty in Indonesia. We use fixed capital formation growth as the proxy for the private sector and growth in government spending as the indicator of the public sector. We find that growth in both sectors significantly reduces...
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The Role of the State in Managing and Forestalling Systemic Financial Crises : Some Issues and Perspectives
Adams, Charles - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This paper reviews recent state interventions in financial crises and draws lessons for crisis management. A number of areas are identified where crisis management could be strengthened, including with regard to the tools and instruments used to involve the private sector in crisis resolution...
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Firms’ Perceptions of the Business Cycle and Their Managerial and Financial Conditions
Asako, Kazumi; Ando, Koichi; Matsumoto, Kazuyuki - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Perception of the business cycle can differ among firms, which has been confirmed by extensive survey data. The question we want to answer in this paper is "What causes differences in business cycle perception?" by utilizing a newly designed questionnaire. Specifically, we match properties...
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The Government and the Financial System : an Overview
Ikeo, Kazuhito; Goto, Yasuo - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
government, and for the government will be surveyed in turn. Furthermore, postal system privatization will be discussed in terms …
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Impacts of Privatization on Employment - Evidence from China
Huang, Lingwen; Yao, Yang - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper evaluates the impact of privatization on firm employment using a panel dataset of 386 firms in China in the … the dynamic impact of privatization on employment growth and find that the performance of privatized firms improves over … time. These findings are robust even after we control other performance and financial variables as well as the pre-privatization …
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Does partial privatization improve the environment?
Pal, Rupayan; Saha, Bibhas - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
) with the level of privatization, if the level of privatization is less (more) than certain level. It also shows that … partial privatization is optimal from the social welfare point of view. However, the social welfare maximizing level of … privatization damages the environment most. …
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Climate Change Mitigation and Green Growth in Developing Asia
Howes, Stephen; Wyrwoll, Paul - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Developing Asia is the driver of today’s emissions intensive global economy. As the principle source of future emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflecting this global reality and a range of related domestic issues, the governments of...
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How Should We Bank With Foreigners?—An Empirical Assessment of Lending Behavior of International Banks to Six East Asian Economies
Pontines, Victor; Siregar, Reza Y. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
The possible crucial role of international bank lending in transmitting adverse economic disturbance from developed economies to emerging economies in the 2008–2009 global financial crisis has placed capital flows into sharper scrutiny in academic and policy discussions. The...
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