Similar Search Results

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540321

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286149

Debt Policy and Economic Growth in a Small Open Economy Model with Productive Government Spending

Futagami, Koichi - 2010

In this paper, we examine the effects of introducing constraints on government borrowing using a continuous-time overlapping generations model of a small open economy. We consider government placing constraints on the amount of government bonds outstanding by establishing an upper limit, or...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144794

Fiscal Policy Coordination in Asia : East Asian Infrastructure Investment Fund

Abidin, Mahani Zainal - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192737

Probing beneath cross-national averages : poverty, inequality, and growth in the Philippines

Balisacan, Arsenio M.; Pernia, Ernesto M. - 2001

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001656253

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

Balisacan, Arsenio M. - 1996

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000976720

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807468

Why has Latin America sped up ahead of the Philippines in economic and political reform?

Alonso-Terme, Rosa - 2015

This paper compares trends in key economic, political and social development outcomes in the Philippines with those of Latin America, particularly since the 1990s. To do so, it uses standard indicators of development, including measures of institutional quality and good governance. The paper...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473137

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050277

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233447