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Historical Sources of Institutional Trajectories in Economic Development : China, Japan, and Korea Compared
Aoki, Masahiko - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
sources of institutional trajectories of economic development in China, Japan, and Korea. It stylizes the Malthusian-phase of … states of Qing China, Tokugawa Japan, and Yi Korea by focusing on the way in which agricultural taxes were enforced. It also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278162
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Historical Sources of Institutional Trajectories in Economic Development : China, Japan, and Korea Compared
Aoki, Masahiko - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
sources of institutional trajectories of economic development in China, Japan, and Korea. It stylizes the Malthusian-phase of … states of Qing China, Tokugawa Japan, and Yi Korea by focusing on the way in which agricultural taxes were enforced. It also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278220
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The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank : Should Asia Have Both?
Nehru, Vikram - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper examines the complementary and competitive roles of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Asia given the backdrop of a changing world in which development priorities and challenges are changing rapidly and the rapid expansion of financial flows to developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278044
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The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank : Should Asia Have Both?
Nehru, Vikram - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper examines the complementary and competitive roles of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Asia given the backdrop of a changing world in which development priorities and challenges are changing rapidly and the rapid expansion of financial flows to developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278196
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Bangladesh's Graduation from LDC Status : Timeline and Policy Implications
Bhattacharya, Debapriya - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Bangladesh g joined the LDC category in 1975 along with Central African Republic and Gambia. Starting with 25 countries, the current LDC list comprises of 49 countries : 33 in Africa, 13 in Asia Pacific & 1 in Latin America. Three eligible countries declined to be an LDC : Ghana, Papua New...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647687
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Bangladesh's Graduation from LDC Status : Timeline and Policy Implications
Bhattacharya, Debapriya - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Bangladesh g joined the LDC category in 1975 along with Central African Republic and Gambia. Starting with 25 countries, the current LDC list comprises of 49 countries : 33 in Africa, 13 in Asia Pacific & 1 in Latin America. Three eligible countries declined to be an LDC : Ghana, Papua New...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647707
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The Service Sector as India’s Road to Economic Growth?
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Among fast growing developing countries, India is distinctive for the role of the service sector. However, sceptics have raised doubts about both the quality and sustainability of the increase in service sector activity and its implications for economic development. Using National Accounts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363516
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The Two Waves of Service-Sector Growth
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363635
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Green Revolutions and Miracle Economies : Agricultural Innovation, Trade and Growth
Guha, Brishti - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
The purpose of this paper is to develop a simple model of an economy in which growth is driven by a combination of exogenous technical change in agriculture as well as by a rising world demand for labor-intensive manufactured exports. We explore the relative roles of agricultural innovation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365231
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The People’s Republic of China and Global Imbalances from a View of Sectorial Reforms
Ito, Hiro; Volz, Ulrich - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
€™s Republic of China (PRC). In particular, we investigate to what extent reforms pertaining to the financial sector, social … protection, and healthcare may contribute to a rebalancing of the PRC’s persistent current account imbalances. Our forecasting … results suggest that reforming the financial sector would be a significant contributor to the country’s rebalancing with an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278043