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The Impact of Public Spending on the Performance of Microfinance Institutions

Janda, Karel; Zetek, Pavel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper investigates the role of public expenditures and general government debt in microfinance performance. Our panel regression applied to the data of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Latin America and the Caribbean confirms the high significance of public finance for the growth of...

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The spillover effects of water supply infrastructure development: A theoretical model

Yoshino, Naoyuki; Setiawati, Santi; Siregar, Tifani Husna; … - 2023

One of the main challenges in low-income Asia and the Pacific countries is users' willingness to pay for water services. In contrast, investors and private operators in the water sector prefer a high rate of return. This has often led to the failure of public-private partnerships for water...

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Fiscal policy coordination in Asia: East Asian Infrastructure Investment Fund

Zainal Abidin, Mahani - 2010

East Asian countries were seriously affected by the 2008 global crisis through a steep fall in exports. This experience exposed the vulnerability of the East Asian growth model and emphasized the importance of generating regional growth by expanding domestic demand and enlarging intra-regional...

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Fiscal Policy Coordination in Asia : East Asian Infrastructure Investment Fund

Abidin, Mahani Zainal - 2010

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Removing poverty and inequality in India: the role of infrastructure

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Developing countries attach enormous importance to physical infrastructure for poverty reduction. We contend that this association is different across types of infrastructure and regions. The present paper explores the multidimensional association between infrastructure and poverty in India in a...

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Rural growth, food security, and poverty alleviation in developing Asian countries

Balisacan, Arsenio M. - 1996

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Understanding financial inclusion: What matters and how it matters

Park, Cyn-Young; Mercado, Rogelio - 2021

This paper introduces a new index of financial inclusion for 153 advanced, emerging, and developing economies using a comprehensive set of new indicators, grouped into four different dimensions: financial access, usage, financial development, and fintech infrastructure. The fintech...

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Service Sector Productivity and Economic Growth in Asia

Lee, Jong-Wha - 2014

This paper explores the impacts of more rapid growth in labor productivity in the service sector in Asia based on an empirical general equilibrium model. The model allows for input-output linkages and capital movements across industries and economies, and consumption and investment dynamics. We...

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The impacts of the food, fuel and financial crises on households in Nigeria. A retrospective approach for research enquiry

Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Chiripanhura, Blessing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on the livelihoods of low-income households Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household welfare. Our results indicate that aggregate shocks have...

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Is there economic convergence in Asia?

Canlas, Dante B. - 2020

This paper opens up a study of economic convergence in Asia. This convergence refers to the ability of developing … developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank. The study supports conditional convergence but not absolute … convergence. That is the lagging economies can catch up with the leading economies provided the former can adopt advanced …

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