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Trade and investment reforms in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) since the mid-1980s have boosted natural resource-based exports, underpinning recent economic growth. A high proportion of the proceeds from these exports accrue directly to the government. Over the 8 years preceding...
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We use a dynamic forecasting model to evaluate a wide array of opportunities for sustained economic growth in Myanmar. Our simulation results suggest that the government of Myanmar can advance potential growth drivers, by maintaining a stable macroeconomic environment that is conducive to...
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Since the onset of the ongoing United States (US)-People's Republic of China (PRC) trade dispute in 2017, stakeholders and experts alike have expressed deep concerns that the tensions would come at a cost for the countries involved and the global economy. In this paper, we endeavor to quantify...
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from the North Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade, and boosting SouthSouth trade. How will trade … patterns change over the next 2 decades in the course of economic growth and structural changes in developing Asia and the rest …, and (iii) various trade policy reforms in developing Asia without and with policy reforms also in the Northʺ and in …
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Developing Asia has the world's fastest greenhouse gas emissions growth. This study uses an economy …-energy-climate model to assess the effects of Paris Agreement pledges on Asia, in comparison with business as usual (BAU) and more … of less than 2 degrees Celsius (2°C) warming. The policy costs of Asia's pledges are found to be less than 1% of gross …
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This paper uses a global integrated assessment model to assess how developing Asia, the world's fastest-growing source … lowest-income subregions of Asia. Air quality would also improve, saving about 0.35 million lives in the region by 2050 …. Including these co-benefits raises the benefit-cost ratio for Asia under ambitious decarbonization to 5. Energy …
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Unless developing Asia decarbonizes its development, global warming is unlikely to stay below the internationally … pathways. This paper explores the evidence within that database to consider decarbonization pathways for developing Asia … Asia-and a substantial rise in renewable energy. The cost of the transition can be relatively low if mitigation efforts are …
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Over the last 2 decades the distribution of private household expenditures has become more unequal in the Lao People's Democratic Republic, with the Gini coefficient rising from 0.311 to 0.364, even though absolute poverty incidence has halved. The increase in inequality was statistically...
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Studies of the incidence of benefits from public services have rightly stressed the difference between average and marginal benefits. Cross sectional methods of analysis for Lao PDR indicate that for public education and health services, total benefits are highest for the best-off quintile...
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In the early 1990s, the People's Republic of China opened its urban water sector to nonstate capital to help meet increasing urban water demand under severe water resource constraints. By 2007, more than 30% of urban water utilities had attracted private sector participation (PSP). To understand...
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