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"Access to new information and communication technologies (ICT) remains extremely unequally distributed across and within societies. While there have been a good deal of popular discussions about this "digital divide", not much is known about the quantitative significance of its various...
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This study develops a decomposition methodology to explain the welfare disparity between male and female workers in terms of three components: segregation, discrimination, and inequality. While segregation captures occupational segregation by gender, discrimination measures the earning...
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This paper empirically examines the relative importance of different sources of inflation in developing Asia. In … shocks to domestic prices. Our central empirical result is that contrary to popular misconception, Asia's inflation is … policy will remain a powerful tool in the fight against inflation in Asia. Another significant finding is that the pass …
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consequent international tax competition for capital. The potential loss of revenues is encouraging developing Asia's governments …
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In this paper, we study the effects of institutions and policies on economic growth and poverty, paying close attention to institutions and policies that relate to the overall climate and regulations under which the private sector operates. We find that good governance, as measured by a strong...
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As Asia's economic growth process matures, regional integration offers important opportunities to sustain and extend …
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The proliferation of preferential trade agreements in Asia may result in a number of hub-and-spoke configurations, with …-and-spoke configurations in Asia. Simulation results suggest that the regionalism approach to integration in the Asian context can hardly act …
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Dong Hyun Park finds evidence strongly supportive of popular opinion that developing Asia should manage its foreign …
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-term growth prospect of East Asia. Historically, a US slowdown has often been associated with a global slowdown. East Asia has …, and declining growth rates in East Asia. Using the Oxford Economics' Global Model, this paper examines the possible … impacts on East Asia of a sharper and longer US slowdown than is currently anticipated by the Asian Development Bank in its …
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