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Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board and the Regulation of Chinese Investment
Mendelsohn, Rebecca; Fels, Allan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
Foreign investment has played an important role in the Australian economy since the country's foundation. Part of the latest wave of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Australia has been by Chinese firms, and largely by state-owned enterprises with connections to the Chinese state. Despite the...
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Education Impact Study : The Global Recession and the Capacity of Colleges and Universities to Serve Vulnerable Populations in Asia
Postiglione, Gerard - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This paper reviews the capacity of colleges and universities to serve poor and vulnerable populations during past and present economic shocks. The main argument is that the environment of the global recessionan Asia far more economically integrated than during past economic shocks, with more...
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Alternative Approaches to the Development of Early Childhood Education in Singapore
Wei, Yong Yik; Chongvilaivan, Aekapol; Yang, Chew Jing - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
A knowledge-intensive, innovation-driven economy needs innovative and creative individuals in business, government, and the various professions. Singapores education system has an important role to play in equipping the young with the right qualities. This could be better achieved by moving away...
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Higher Education in India - Seizing The Opportunity
Kaul, Sanat - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
India is well known for its large pool of technical manpower, a fair proportion of which finds employment in developed … countries, especially in the West. As a happy sequel to the story, India has recently witnessed a big boom in the BPO/KPO sector …. In order to sustain this trend, and to ensure that India does not throw away this key advantage, it is imperative that we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365276
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The Effects of Parental Death and Chronic Poverty on Children’s Education and Health : Evidence from Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Pakpahan, Yus Medina; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Using a sufficiently long-spanning longitudinal dataset, we estimate the short and long term effects of maternal and paternal death on childrens school enrollment, educational attainment, and health in Indonesia, then compare them to the effect of chronic poverty. We also investigate whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363492
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The Effects of Parental Death and Chronic Poverty on Children’s Education and Health : Evidence from Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Pakpahan, Yus Medina; Suryahadi, Asep - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Using a sufficiently long-spanning longitudinal dataset, we estimate the short and long term effects of maternal and paternal death on childrens school enrollment, educational attainment, and health in Indonesia, then compare them to the effect of chronic poverty. We also investigate whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363555
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A Reassessment of Inequality and Its Role in Poverty Reduction in Indonesia
Suryadarma, Daniel; Artha, Rima Prama; Suryahadi, Asep; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
This study provides an overview of inequality in Indonesia for the period of 1984 to 2002 using several widely used measurements of inequality. Firstly, unlike previous studies, our paper uses real consumption expenditure that takes into account the high regional price disparity across regions...
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Gender-based Indicators in Human Development - Correcting for ‘Missing Women’
Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure are two gender-based indicators provided by the United Nations Development Program. Population share of the genders enter the formulation of these indicators in such a way that it favours the better performing gender. This can lead to...
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An Alternative Approach to Measure HDI
Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle; Mishra, Srijit; Reddy, B. … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
The popularly known Human Development Index (HDI) is obtained through linear averaging (LA) of indices in three dimensions - health, education and standard of living. LA method assumes perfect substitutability among the indices. We question its appropriateness and propose an alternative measure,...
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On A Class of Human Development Index Measures
Mishra, Srijit; Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Using Minkowski distance function we propose a class of Human Development Index measures. Special cases of this turn out to be the popularly used linear average method as also a newly proposed displaced ideal method. Two measures of penalty are suggested. One captures the non-uniform attainment...
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