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Canlas, Dante B. - 2020

This paper opens up a study of economic convergence in Asia. This convergence refers to the ability of developing … developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank. The study supports conditional convergence but not absolute … convergence. That is the lagging economies can catch up with the leading economies provided the former can adopt advanced …

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Do regions gain from an open economy?

Pernia, Ernesto M.; Lazatin, Janine Elora M. - 2016

This paper looks into whether and how sub-national regions can benefit from a country's economic openness. Using data on the Philippines, it first notes marked disparities across its regions as reflected in economic and social indicators. The dominance of Metropolitan Manila in the national...

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Who are poor and do they remain poor?

Ducanes, Geoffrey M.; Tan, Edita Abella - 2014

This paper examines the link between poverty and income, on the one hand, and human capital and location, on the other. In the process, the paper proposes a shift in the household indicator of human capital from the usual education of the household head to the education of the most educated...

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