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Energy access and energy security in Asia and the Pacific
Sovacool, Benjamin K. - 2013
Lack of access to electricity and modern cooking fuels constitutes energy poverty. Access to modern energy requires improved technologies and financing instruments and sources. The pro-poor public-private partnership model is one useful vehicle for raising capital to finance projects. Five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241520
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Sovereign risk, elections, and contagion
Li, Chi; Balding, Christopher; Lee, Minsoo - 2013
This paper aims to quantify the political risk effect and its different economic implications in normal and crisis situations through the proxy analysis of election and the sovereign bond spreads. Our study leads to three main findings. First, in normal economic situations, elections and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781196
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Catching up, structural transformation, and inequality : lessons from Asia
Martorano, Bruno; Park, Donghyun; Sanfilippo, Marco - 2016
contributed to Asia's sustained rapid growth, its effect on income inequality is uncertain. The central objective of our paper is … to empirically examine the effect of structural change on wage inequality in Asia, using industry-level data for three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011579027
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Asian capital market integration : theory and evidence
Park, Cyn-Young - 2013
borderless. This paper assesses the progress achieved thus far in capital market integration in Asia, and compares regional … that while the pace of regional integration of financial markets in Asia's emerging economies has accelerated in recent …-market returns driven by financial turmoil originating at both the regional and global levels spills over into emerging Asia domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781172
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Capital account policies in emerging Asian economies : are they effective in the 2000s?
Juthathip Jongwanich - 2019
This paper examines the effectiveness of capital account policy in terms of its ability to affect the volume and composition of capital flows, relieve pressures on real exchange rates, and foster monetary policy independence. Ten emerging Asian economies are used as case studies to assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020535
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Contingent claims analysis of sovereign debt sustainability in Asian emerging markets
Brière, Marie; Ferrarini, Benno; Ramayandi, Arief - 2016
analysis and market-based risk measures well complement conventional debt sustainability analysis for Asia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011579024
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Decoupling Asia revisited
Park, Cyn-Young - 2017
The issue of decoupling is controversial. On the back of Asia's sustained high growth, the hypothesis that the region …'s business cycles would become increasingly independent of the global trend gained considerable attention. Asia was nonetheless … of macroeconomic interdependence between emerging East Asia and Group of 3 economies. First, the progress of regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581854
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Pats and future of the labor force in emerging Asian economies
Kim, Jinyoung - 2010
"This paper investigates the determinants of past changes in the labor force of 12 emerging Asian countries, and attempts to make projections of the labor force in those countries for the period 2010-f 2030. Results from the regression analysis indicate that the labor force has grown faster than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008749747
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Surfing the waves of globalization : Asia and financial globalization in the context of the trilemma
Aizenman, Joshua; Chinn, Menzie David; Itō, Hiro - 2009
Using the "trilemma indexes" developed by Aizenman et al. (2008) that measure the extent of achievement in each of the three policy goals in the trilemma - monetary independence, exchange rate stability, and financial openness - this paper examines how policy configurations affect macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003913743
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The influence of US dollar funding conditions on Asian financial markets
Lee, Junkyu; Rosenkranz, Peter; Ramayandi, Arief; Pham, … - 2021
More than 20 years after the Asian financial crisis, the region's continued high reliance on United States (US) dollar-denominated funding has significant implications for the transmission of global financial conditions to domestic financial and macroeconomic circumstances. Given limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485240