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Using marine resources in a healthy and sustainable manner is at the center of building a blue economy that will make "Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water" achievable. Fisheries and aquaculture sectors alone provide employment for and support the livelihoods of more than 200...
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The ultimate goal of this contribution is to formulate fish trade policy recommendations that can be deployed to help achieve the relevant Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (SDGs). Even though all the 17 SDGs are relevant to the issues addressed in this contribution, I will...
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This study examines the determinants of blue economy activities, namely tourism and fisheries, in 21 Asia and Pacific island countries during the period 1996 to 2016. Using a panel data model, it was found that the size of the blue economy positively depends on the gross fixed capital formation...
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The Pacific Island nations heavily rely on the tuna fishery for government revenue and economic growth. Since the conversion of some nations to the Vessel Days Scheme (VDS) from the fishing Quota system, the region's domestic catch has significantly increased. VDS has stimulated economic return...
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Thailand's increasing importance as a regional co-production base and as an intra-regional trade and border trade hub … Thailand's intra-regional trade, physical connectivity, trade facilitation, energy cooperation, and infrastructure funding as … there are projects planned in these areas that could impact Thailand and its links to Southeast Asia and beyond to South …
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Thailand and find that a small open country would be better off shifting to a basket peg or to a floating regime than …
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This paper reviews Thailand's structural changes, the 1997 crisis experience, and recovery and lessons from the crisis … recovery from the 1997 crisis left Thailand more dependent than ever on exports as the main engine of growth, with the ratio of … learned from the 1997 crisis led to a more risk-averse financial system, and this helped Thailand avoid the direct impacts of …
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case studies: Wanzai, PRC; Wuyuan, PRC; Kandy, Sri Lanka; and Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. The results show considerable …
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Thailand - an outward-oriented regional production hub - is one of East Asia's most active users of free trade … agreements (FTAs) as an instrument of commercial policy. By December 2009, Thailand had 11 concluded FTAs, and more were either … systematic study of the business impact of FTAs in Thailand. Key findings are as follows: (i) 24.9% of respondents used Thai FTAs …
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This paper examines several aspects of the rehabilitation and reconstruction program that followed the 2004 tsunami in Asia. Almost 230,000 people died in the disaster. We focus on two main issues: aid delivery and reconstruction policy following the disaster. Although issues such as immediate...
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