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Both Japan and Korea are trying to boost female labor force participation (FLFP) as they face the challenges of a rapidly aging population. Though FLFP has generally been on a rising trend, the female labor force in both countries is skewed towards non-regular employment despite women's high...
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This paper seeks to uncover the main drivers of credit growth in emerging Asia using a multi-country structural vector … that domestic factors are more dominant than external factors in driving rapid credit growth in emerging Asia. This is … Asia …
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Both sides of the institutions and growth debate have resorted largely to microeconometric techniques in testing hypotheses. In this paper, I build a panel structural vector autoregression (SVAR) model for a short panel of 119 countries over 10 years and find support for the institutions...
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After many years of rapid expansion, China's growth is slowing to more sustainable levels and is rebalancing, with consumption becoming the main growth driver. This transition is likely to have negative effects on its trading partners in the near term. This paper studies the potential spillovers...
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We explore the contribution of product-quality upgrading to the export performance of six fast-growing Asian economies: China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, and Thailand. We focus on measuring the impact of quality upgrading on the changes in these countries' sectoral export shares...
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The use of e-commerce around the world has accelerated in recent years, with Asia, led by China, spearheading the rise … generate a larger share of their revenues from exports than other firms. This is particularly true in Asia, where firms have 30 …
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This study examines the drivers of growth in Asian countries, with focus on the role of investment, the exchange rate regime, financial risk, and capital account openness. We use a panel data set of a sample of Asian countries over the period 1980 to 2012. Our results indicate that private and...
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Using three distinct approaches - statistical filtering, production function, and multivariate model - this paper estimates potential growth for China, India, and five ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam) during 1993–2013. The main findings include: (i)...
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Despite the rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Asia worsened during last two decades. We focus … our analysis is that there is still room to strengthen such policies in Asia to better achieve growth with shared … on inclusive growth could be sizeable in emerging Asia, since the estimated improvement in our proxy of inclusive growth …
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This paper assesses how pro-poor and inclusive Asia's recent growth has been, and what factors have been driving these …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia … policies that could help redress these trends and broaden the benefits of growth in Asia. These include fiscal policies to …
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