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The Lancang-Mekong River Basin: Reflections on Cooperation Mechanisms Pertaining to a Shared Watercourse
Sunchindah, Apichai - eSocialSciences - 2013
The ambitious development plans for the Lancang-Mekong River Basin (LMRB) could have serious environmental, social, cultural and even geopolitical ramifications that could in turn destabilise the Mekong Subregion (MS). On the premise that frameworks for regional cooperation offer a viable route...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945328
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Asian Century: A Comparative Analysis of Growth in China, India and other Asian Economies
Basu, Kaushik - eSocialSciences - 2010
fact that China has succeeded therefore should lead us to question our textbook doctrines of development. Much of this … paper is presented as a comparative study of India, China and, briefly, other Asian nations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752338
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Water Democracy: Reclaiming Public Water in Asia
FGS, Focus on the Global South - eSocialSciences - 2010
This collection of 19 new essays written by civil society activists, trade unionists and other water practitioners, presents examples of ongoing struggles against water privatization and commercialization as well as inspiring examples of people-centered public water management from across Asia....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513088
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Can Ethical Trade Certification Contribute to the Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals? A Review of Organic and Fair-trade Certification
Setboonsarng, Sununtar - eSocialSciences - 2009
The growth of ethical consumerism in developed countries has led to increased imports of environmentally and socially certified products produced by the poor in developing countries, which could potentially contribute towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045002
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The Exchange Rate Regime in Asia: From Crisis to Crisis
Shah, Ajay; Patnaik, Ila; Sethy, Anmol; … - eSocialSciences - 2010
Prior to the Asian financial crisis, most Asian exchange rates were de facto pegged to the US Dollar. In the crisis, many economies experienced a brief period of extreme flexibility. A `fear of floating' gave reduced flexibility when the crisis subsided, but flexibility after the crisis was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008599384
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Asia Confronts the Impossible Trinity
Shah, Ajay; Patnaik, Ila - eSocialSciences - 2010
Capital account openness and exchange rate flexibility in 11 Asian countries are examined. Asia has made slow progress on de jure capital account openness, but has made much more progress on de facto capital account openness. While there is a slow pace of increase in exchange rate flexibility,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480381
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The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Information and Communication Technologies
Rao, C Niranjan - eSocialSciences - 2008
The paper starts by recapitulating the basic arguments provided by economic theory to explain the existence of the patent system. The paper then concentrates on the three important ICT industries viz., telecommunication equipment, computer hardware and semiconductor industries. The issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487573
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People’s Republic of China and its Neighbors: Partners or Competitors for Trade and Investment?
Weiss, John - eSocialSciences - 2010
between PRC and its trading partners, finding that PRC’s current structure is closest to that in Korea and Taipei, China in …The very rapid economic growth of the People’s Republic of China (henceforth PRC), its dramatic success in world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008763394
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The China-Japan-US Triangle
Vogel, Ezra F. - eSocialSciences - 2006
between the three great powers in the region: China, Japan and the United States. This paper discusses relations between China … fates of the three countries are interlinked. The challenge for the US-Japan-China triangle is to create the positive …, Japan and the United States since World War II. It looks at three periods of critical changes in their relations - 1947 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341800
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On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Qian, Nancy - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652075