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An integrated and smart ASEAN : overcoming adversities and achieving sustainable and inclusive growth

Park, Cyn-Young; Yeung, Bernard - 2021

Asia's economic significance has risen substantially over the past several decades. Further economic development in ASEAN, with its massive population, requires very efficient utilization of resources and cross-border cooperation. While ASEAN has much to gain from economic cooperation and...

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"Sanitation" in the top development journals : a review

Revilla, Ma. Laarni D.; Qu, Fangqi; Seetharam, … - 2021

The top 12 development journals published a total of 18,329 papers during the period 2000.2020. Out of these, just 51 focused on sanitation and related issues, which are the focus of this review. Results were mixed on the efficiency of sanitation delivery since political factors and...

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Developing the Philippine blue economy : opportunities and challenges in the ocean tourism sector

Zafra, Maria Angela G. - 2021

Ocean tourism contributes significantly to the economy of the Philippines, an archipelagic nation with one of the longest coastlines in the world and one of the best marine environments in terms of biodiversity. This paper aims to explore how ocean tourism and economic development intertwine in...

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Infrastructure, urbanization, and demand for bank and non-bank loans of households in the People's Republic of China

Lyons, Angela C.; Grable, John E.; Zeng, Ting - 2017

Financial inclusion plays an important role in giving households greater access to borrowing opportunities, which in turn can be used to improve human capital accumulation, socioeconomic status, and long-run economic development. One way to enhance households' access to and usage of the...

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Can trade help achieve the employment targets of the sustainable development goals?

Vandenberg, Paul - 2017

The paper asks whether trade can help to achieve the employment targets of the Sustainable Development Goals. The focus is on Goal 8, which is to "promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all." The theoretical and empirical links...

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Spatial dimensions of expenditure inequality in a decentralizing Indonesia

Akita, Takahiro; Miyata, Sachiko - 2017

This study analyzes spatial dimensions of inequality under decentralization in Indonesia from 1996-2010 using the hierarchical decomposition method. It uses household expenditures rather than regional accounts and tries to investigate the contributions of spatial inequalities to overall...

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The role of credit guarantee schemes in the development of small and medium-sized enterprises with an emphasis on knowledge-based enterprises

Aboojafari, Roohollah; Daliri, Alireza; … - 2019

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their growth stage reach the point where, on the one hand, personal resources do not meet their needs, and, on the other, they do not have enough collateral to attract external finance. Access to finance can be facilitated by obtaining loans from...

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Impact of production linkages on industrial upgrading in ASEAN, the People’s Republic of China, and India : organizational evidence of a global supply chain

Machikita, Tomohiro; Ueki, Yasushi - 2012

downstream and upstream firms in terms of international standard certification. The degree of product and process innovation is … achieve product innovation if they have customers in foreign countries. Customers in Japan and the People's Republic of China … play an important product innovation role for firms in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) economies, and …

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Regional trade agreements and enterprises in Southeast Asia

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2013

The spread of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Southeast Asia has ignited a debate about their impact on business, and ways to avoid raising the business costs from the Asian 'noodle bowl' effect. This paper undertakes a comparative and firm-level analysis of the impact of RTAs in Indonesia,...

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Skills training by small and medium-sized enterprises : innovative cases and the consortium approach in the Republic of Korea

Lee, Kye-woo - 2016

This paper presents targeted government policies for promoting training in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to increase their contributions to economic development. It first discusses the role of SMEs in country development and the special challenges facing SMEs in developing human...

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