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This paper uses over 20 years of data from Indonesia's labor force survey to study trends in female labor force participation (FLFP). We find that younger women in urban areas have increased their labor force participation in recent years, largely through wage employment, while younger women in...
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In Asia, aging countries with slow population growth worry about a lack of workers in the futureand see older people …
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Broadly speaking, developing Asia and Latin America are at similar income and development levels. Relative to the … experience with inclusive fiscal policy can offer valuable lessons for developing Asia in its new-found quest to leverage public … general implications for Asia, of particular interest is its generally successful experience with conditional cash transfer …
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This study examines the effects of capital account restrictions on capital flows in nine Asian economies over the period 1995-2005 using panel regressions with fixed effects. The results show that capital controls significantly affect capital flows when such flows are disaggregated by asset type...
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conclusion is that a number of countries in developing Asia have significantly improved their basic infrastructure endowments in …
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commonality through return and volatility. Cross-market liquidity commonality in Asia increased significantly during and after the …
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While developing Asia has recovered strongly from the global crisis, the region faces the medium- and long … Asia's growth. Our results also confirm the relevance of supply-side factors, in particular human capital and openness to … trade, for developing Asia's medium- and long-term growth. The overarching implication for policy makers is that supply …
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of developing Asia, compared to the world average. The findings from panel instrumental variable regression confirm … of developing Asia, where this effect appears to be strongest. By contrast, domestic trade potential represented by … country size is found to be less relevant a factor in explaining the rise in income of developing Asia. In light of a likely …
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In this paper, we analyze the determinants of the domestic saving rate in developing Asia during 1966-2007 and find … project future trends in domestic saving rates in developing Asia for 2011-2030 based on our estimation results, and find that … the aging of the population will be the main determinant of future trends in domestic saving rates in developing Asia …
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This study reviews and analyzes the changes in total factor productivity (TFP) growth in 12 Asian economies – the People's Republic of China; Hong Kong, China; India; Indonesia; the Republic of Korea; Malaysia; Pakistan; the Philippines; Singapore; Taipei, China; Thailand; and Viet Nam – for the...
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