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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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Developing Asia has traditionally relied on exports to the United States (US) and other industrialized countries for …
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appropriate MSME policies in Asia and the Pacific. To identify factors affecting MSME development and promote evidence … Asia Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Monitor project. The estimation results suggest that sound MSME credit markets … play a critical role in ensuring a smooth business recovery from various crises and shocks affecting developing Asia and …
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Adverse foreign output shocks have a sizable impact on the welfare of small open economies. Therefore, one of the key roles of monetary policy in those economies is to minimize the welfare losses arising from such shocks. To assess the welfare impact of external shocks under different monetary...
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The Chinese economy is slowing down and, at the same time, it is in the midst of a structural transformation from an export- and investment-led economy to a domestic demand- and consumption-led growth paradigm. While there are widespread concerns in the People's Republic of China's (PRC) trading...
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Asia from meeting their health-care needs when sick. Our analysis of household survey data from Cambodia, the Philippines …
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Infrastructure development in Southeast Asia has been financed mainly by public funds, which leave wide gaps in …
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Over the past 2 decades, income inequality has moderated in three middle-income countries in Southeast Asia …
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Equity is an abstract concept covering philosophical issues such as fairness and social justice, making its definition and measurement very complex. This study attempts to define and measure equity in health status and health care utilization using the equity index of opportunity. The study...
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We delineate metropolitan areas (MAs) in the Philippines using cellphone user flow data to proxy for daily commutes. The exercise identifies a number of large MAs that are not officially recognized, and different spatial extents for the three officially designated MAs. The urban system aligns...
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