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This paper examines Cambodia's socioeconomic development since the early 1990s peace settlement. The country's economic …
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This study examines the role of special economic zones (SEZs) within the trade policy of Cambodia. It asks whether … Cambodia's establishment of SEZs since late 2005 has been successful, based on the evidence to date, and analyzes the … levels of foreign investment into Cambodia that would not have been present otherwise. These investments have created around …
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This paper uses over 20 years of data from Indonesia's labor force survey to study trends in female labor force participation (FLFP). We find that younger women in urban areas have increased their labor force participation in recent years, largely through wage employment, while younger women in...
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as well as droughts and heat waves. The Asia and the Pacific region has experienced some of the most damaging disasters … Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater … temperature linked to droughts and heat waves) and the frequency of intense natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific and its …
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Evidence-based economic policies - pragmatic policies that work - played a major role in Asia's success in raising its … environmental degradation if Asia continues on its established growth path. Evidence strongly argues for Asia to broaden its …. The paper focuses on how Asia can manage this ambitious goal. Possible resistance from vested interests is to be …
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producers of intellectual property. At the same time, developing Asia has attracted large amounts of foreign direct investment … the relationship between IPR and FDI in developing Asia. To do so, we develop a theoretical model which predicts that …
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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 …
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This paper studies the effects of the United States' (US) quantitative easing on Asia by examining capital flows and …
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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...
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, Cambodia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Uzbekistan, and Viet Nam. Sector growth has been supported by strong industrial growth in …
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