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The loans of the IMF, World Bank, and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) are excluded from debt restructuring …
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Asia, particularly its major economies has witnessed slower growth in recent years. To make Asia more economically … proposed. This initiative plans to create an economic zone covering Asia, Europe and Africa. To successfully promote and … finance greater physical connectivity, at the pan-Asian, sub-regional and national levels, Asia will require a strong and …
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Despite remarkable growth during the last decade, Asia and the Pacific still faces extensive basic infrastructure needs …. -- sustainable transport ; infrastructure ; connectivity ; financing infrastructure ; environment and climate change ; Asia and the …
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intermediate inputs for economies in the Asia-Pacific region and examine the impact on domestic producer prices of changes in costs … price dynamics in the Asia-Pacific region. …
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of core set of 22 leading indicators (that were identified from 67 commonly agreed Asian Development Bank Indicators for … selected Asia-Pacific countries, namely Fiji, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam, and Taiwan, Province of China …
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Development projects in the oil industry often have cost overruns. Through analysis of data from Norwegian development projects in the petroleum industry, this paper investigates the common effect of business cycle developments on cost overruns. Lack of capacity and expertise in a tight supplier...
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development "tier" is actually becoming a reality. Several countries in East Asia have been upgrading production patterns and …
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Bilateral donors use foreign aid to pursue soft power. We test the effectiveness of aid in reaching this goal by leveraging a new dataset on the precise commitment, implementation, and completion dates of Chinese development projects. We use data from the Gallup World Poll for 126 countries over...
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This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
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Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
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