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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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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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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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Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis on Small and Medium Enterprises in the People's Republic of China

Liu, Xiangfeng - 2010

This paper conducts an in-depth analysis of the impacts of the global financial crisis on the People's Republic of China's (PRC's) small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It also provides relevant policy suggestions at the end. First, this paper reviews the impacts of the 1997 Asian financial...

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Natural disasters, public spending, and creative destruction: A case study of the Philippines

Jha, Shikha; Martinez, Arturo; Quising, Pilipinas; … - 2018

Typhoons, floods, and other weather-related shocks can inflict suffering on local populations and create life-threatening conditions for the poor. Yet, natural disasters also present a development opportunity to upgrade capital stock, adopt new technologies, enhance the risk-resiliency of...

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Female rural-urban migrants and online marketplaces in emerging economies: Evidence from Thailand and Viet Nam

Nguyen, Trung Thanh; Do, Manh Hung - 2022

This research aimed to examine the factors affecting the participation of female rural-urban migrants in online marketplaces, and the welfare gains and their distribution from their participation. Our analysis was based on a unique data set of rural households, villages, and rural-urban migrants...

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