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Developing Asia has undergone a dramatic shift over the past 5 decades from a region of mainly lowincome economies … toward one that is largely middle income. Compared with world aggregate data, developing Asia now has a much greater …
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Asia's rapid population aging fortifies the case for strengthening human capital investments. Further, the experience … positive effect on labor productivity and, hence, output. The positive effect is stronger for poorer households and, hence …. Overall, our evidence points to a positive effect of human capital on growth, equity, and fiscal balance in Asia. …
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In this paper, we propose a panel approach in the construction of the Asia-Pacific Regional Cooperation and Integration … principal components analysis. Findings suggest the pace of integration in Asia was broadly steady over the 11-year sample …. Based on global normalization, Asia comes second to the European Union (EU) in progress on regional integration, but in …
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This study assesses the impact of increased fertilizer prices under different scenarios on rice production, consumption, trade and prices. Using a global rice model based on a partial equilibrium framework, the simulation results show that a 30% to 100% increase in fertilizer prices would reduce...
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Asia and Pacific region between 1990 and 2019 based on three widely used green industry classifications, namely US BLS GGS …
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developing Asia's exports and growth. As a result, developing Asian countries are increasingly looking to the People's Republic … trade with the PRC can become an engine of growth for developing Asia. To do so, we examine the structure of PRC's trade … with developing Asia, in particular the relative shares of parts and components versus final goods in its imports from the …
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While developing Asia has recovered strongly from the global crisis, the region faces the medium- and long … estimate total factor productivity growth (TFPG) and account for the relative importance of labor, capital, and TFPG in growth … Asia's growth. Our results also confirm the relevance of supply-side factors, in particular human capital and openness to …
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Fiscal stimulus programs have contributed substantially to developing Asia’s faster and stronger than expected recovery …
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In this paper, we analyze the determinants of corporate saving in the form of changes in the stock of cash for 11 Asian economies using firm-level data from the Oriana Database for the 2002-2011 period. We find some evidence that cash flow has a positive impact on the change in the stock of...
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developing Asia. In our empirical analysis, we use disaggregated measures of governance to capture different dimensions of … effectiveness with which these resources are spent on social sectors. Along with the fact that governance quality is lower in Asia … developing Asia. …
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