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Green Services and Emergence and Recovery from the Global Economic Slowdown in Developing Asian Economies
Stoughton, Mark - 2014
is becoming - one long-term response to the crisis by Asia's emerging economies. In the long run, sustainable economic … commercial and industrial enterprises in developing Asian states, particularly in Asia's more advanced developing economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070042
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Asia-Latin America free trade agreements: An instrument for inter-regional liberalization and integration
Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Ramizo, Dorothea; Burmeister, Luca - 2012
Trade integration and free trade agreement (FTA)-led cooperation between Asia and Latin America has increased since the … early 2000s. Using new criteria, this paper examines whether Asia-Latin America FTAs have facilitated market-led integration … by liberalizing trade and behind the border regulatory barriers. Overall Asia-Latin America FTAs provide the foundations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397259
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Bond Market Development in Asia : An Empirical Analysis of Major Determinants
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2011
One of the reasons behind the financial crisis in 1997 was the excessive dependence of Asian economies on commercial banks for domestic financing. Banks were the major source of corporate financing because bond markets were underdeveloped and small. To enhance corporate bond financing, it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122027
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The Relationship between Structural Change and Inequality : A Conceptual Overview with Special Reference to Developing Asia
Aizenman, Joshua - 2012
of the exceptionally rapid economic growth, which enabled developing Asia to raise living standards and reduce poverty at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098015
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Asia-Latin America Free Trade Agreements : An Instrument for Inter-Regional Liberalization and Integration?
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2014
Trade integration and free trade agreement (FTA)-led cooperation between Asia and Latin America has increased since the … early 2000s. Using new criteria, this paper examines whether Asia-Latin America FTAs have facilitated market-led integration … by liberalizing trade and behind the border regulatory barriers. Overall Asia-Latin America FTAs provide the foundations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065383
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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 … economies, and consumption and investment dynamics. We find that faster productivity growth in the service sector in Asia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050277
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Financial health and firm productivity: Firm-level evidence from Viet Nam
Thangavelu, Shandre M.; Chongvilaivan, Aekapol - 2013
Does financial health shore up firm productivity? This paper empirically investigates this question and presents productivity as another driving factor in translating financial development into real economic progress. Our empirical framework employs Levinsohn and Petrin's (2003) semi-parametric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397331
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Promoting Learning and Industrial Upgrading in ASEAN Countries
Thorbecke, Willem - 2010
This paper traces the effects of the "East Asian Miracle", the 1997-1998 Asian Crisis, the recovery, and the 2008-2009 global financial crisis on ASEAN countries. It also considers how ASEAN countries can sustain growth by leveraging production networks to facilitate technology transfer. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137724
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Why Geographic Dispersion before Its Time : Industrial Policy and Economic Geography in the People's Republic of China
Wu, Yiyun - 2017
This paper investigates the trends and determinants of geographic concentration and industrial specialization in the People's Republic of China (PRC) using interprovincial panel data for the period from 1999 to 2010. It shows that, after 2005, both geographic concentration and industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965182
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944201