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Does Governance Cause Growth? Evidence from China

Wilson, Ross - 2015

This study uses heterogeneous panel Granger causality tests to investigate the causal relationships between quality of governance and economic growth at the provincial level in China during the reform era. I find a significant and positive effect of economic growth on subsequent quality 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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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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Asia and the global crisis: Recovery prospects and the future

Felipe, Jesus - 2010

The global crisis of 2007-09 affected developing Asia largely through a decline in exports to the developed countries and a slowdown in remittances. This happened very quickly, and by 2009 there were already signs of recovery (except on the employment front). This recovery was led by China's...

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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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