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labor in Asia and the Pacific has stagnated in recent years even as the flow of goods, services, and investment have …
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comparison of Asia's regional integration performance with those of other regions of the world. As a second step, the constructed … indicator of regional integration outcomes is used as the output variable in a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate Asia …
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regional integration is most advanced in the European Union which scores high in all six dimensions; Asia comes second with the …
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Launched as a political bloc and security pact in the aftermath of the Viet Nam War, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has evolved to embrace an ambitious economic agenda. It latest project is to establish the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 31 December 2015. Fulfilling these...
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Regional corridors are popular components of regional cooperation initiatives and have been in use for several years. Yet discussion about development of these corridors tends to be relatively general in scope and difficult to pin down in terms of content and implications. This paper elaborates...
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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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