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Green services and emergence and recovery from the global economic slowdown in developing Asian economies

Stoughton, Mark; Venkatachalam, Anbumozhi - 2010

The global economic slowdown has again highlighted the vulnerability of export-led development models and economies to downturns in export markets. Economic deepening or "rebalancing" with an emphasis on service-sector development should be - and is becoming - one long-term response to the...

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Prospects for decent work in services

Khatiwada, Sameer; Flaminiano, John Paul - 2019

This paper examines how the services sector could provide decent and gainful employment in developing Asia. Using … living wages as a reference point, this paper reports that a significant portion of the workforce in developing Asian … productivity, higher wages, and large reductions in poverty. Recent developments of information and communication technology …

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The financial crisis, rethinking of the global financial architecture, and the trilemma

Aizenman, Joshua; Chinn, Menzie David; Itō, Hiro - 2010

This paper extends our previous paper (Aizenman, Chinn, and Ito 2008) and explores some of the unexplored questions. First, we examine the channels through which the trilemma policy configurations affect output volatility. Secondly, we investigate how trilemma policy configurations affect the...

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Real estate valuation, current account, and credit growth patterns before and after the 2008 - 2009 crisis

Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin - 2013

This paper explores the stability of the key conditioning variables accounting for real estate valuation before and after the crisis of 2008 - 2009, in a panel of 36 countries, for the period of 2005:I - 2012:IV, recognizing the incidence of global financial crisis. Our paper validates the...

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New measures of the trilemma hypothesis : implications for Asia

Itō, Hiro; Kawai, Masahiro - 2012

We develop a new set of indexes of exchange rate stability, monetary policy independence, and financial market openness as the metrics for the trilemma hypothesis. In our exploration, we take a different and more nuanced approach than the previous indexes developed by Aizenman, Chinn, and Ito...

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Evaluating the contributions of regional trade agreements to governance of service trade

Stephenson, Sherry M.; Robert, Maryse - 2011

Since the early 1990s, regional trade agreements (RTAs) covering trade in services have proliferated, with 95 RTAs on services notified to the World Trade Organization (WTO) under Article V of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), as of June 2011. This paper discusses how RTAs...

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Foreign direct investment in cross-border infrastructure projects

Fung, Kwok-chiu; García Herrero, Alicia; Ng, Francis - 2011

In this paper we critically review the relevant information and literature that can enhance the feasibility and the successful implementation of cross-border infrastructure projects. We provide detailed information concerning foreign direct investment in the major emerging regions: East Asia and...

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Trade and the post-2015 development agenda

Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2017

Trade can and should play an important role in making progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. This includes trade and investment in services, as realizing many of the goals is conditional on improved performance of services sectors in developing countries. The global environment...

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Trade and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) : how can trade in education services contribute to the SDGs?

Lim, Aik Hoe; Apaza, Pamela; Horj, Alin - 2017

While trade can greatly contribute to providing more education opportunities in the development world, its potential has not been fully exploited so far. This paper examines how international trade can help increase supply of and investment in higher education, thereby enhancing access and...

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Digital trade facilitation : paperless trade in regional trade agreements

Duval, Yann; Mengjing, Kong - 2017

Digital trade facilitation refers to the application of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) to simplify and automate international trade procedures. It is rapidly becoming essential to maintaining trade competitiveness and enabling effective participation in cross-border...

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