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This paper focusses on income inequality in Asia, its drivers and policies to combat it. It finds that income … inequality has risen in most of Asia, in contrast to many regions. While in the past, rapid growth in Asia has come with …
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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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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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-VARX studies for a sample of 19 countries in Developing Asia during 1970 to 2015, this paper contributes new empirical evidence on …
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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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Over the last decade, GDP growth in emerging Asia was roughly twice as fast as average world growth. The IMF’s Global … Economy Model (GEM) is used to estimate the impact that emerging Asia’s growth differential has had on Australia. The …''s growth over the last decade has been from emerging Asia’s growth differential over that period. Looking ahead, the analysis …
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Sharp exchange rate depreciations in the East Asian crisis countries (Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand) raised doubts about the efficacy of increasing interest rates to defend the currency. Using a standard monetary model of exchange rate determination, this paper shows that tighter monetary...
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in Asia during the 1990s is found to be mainly from capital deepening. Total factor productivity (TFP) is also decomposed …
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