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The standard approach to 'nowcast' disaster impacts, which relies on risk models, does not typically account for the compounding impact of various hazard phenomena (e.g., wind and rainfall associated with tropical storms). The alternative, traditionally, has been a team of experts sent to the...
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Estimating regional integration faces challenges because of incomplete data from missing values and insufficient time spans. A key advantage of a dynamic factor model estimated using the Bayesian state-space approach is its ability to handle missing values and aggregation of the regional...
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sector. In light of the Republic of Korea's high income and development level, the poor performance of modern services is of …
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in business services. Developing Asia would benefit from liberalizing services trade as it has benefited from … liberalizing goods trade. This argument rests on these key findings: business services are important for growth, developing Asia is … relatively under- endowed with business services, many business services are tradable, and developing Asia has relatively high …
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, somewhat surprisingly in light of the difficulty of achieving productivity gains in services, we also find that services labor …
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balanced growth in which the service and industry sectors support and reinforce each other. As services tend to be more labor …
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export of services is less than that of the People's Republic of China, and exports are competitive in only a few services … and are concentrated in a few markets. Most of the poor in India do not have access to basic services such as healthcare … employability. Policy measures are suggested for inclusive growth that will also enhance India's global competitiveness in services. …
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economic development. The share of employment in services is still lagging behind that of output and is also below the … international norm. Moving from traditional services to modern business services has been the focus in recent decades, but the …
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outsourcing (IT-BPO) services industries. India and the Philippines in particular have offered educated human resources at low …
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The Philippines is often referred to as a country from which export of services rather than manufactured goods is the … other modern services in urban areas. Second is expanding tourism to foster economic development across social groups and …; and education, healthcare, financial, legal, and public administration services and more generally the overall business …
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