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The paper analyzes the link between human capital and firm-level productivity in five Asian countries. It draws on a dataset of over 4,000 enterprises and considers both the prior educational attainment of workers and in-service training programs of enterprises. Differences between small,...
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Many developing countries have attempted to pursue the East Asian growth model in recent decades. This model is widely perceived to have been based on export-led growth. Given that developed countries are likely to grow at a slower rate and be less willing to run trade deficits in the...
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new regional institutions that Asia needs to establish to contribute to this evolving global economic architecture. …
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The paper investigates the labor market and social impacts of the global financial and economic crisis in Asia and the …
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The paper identifies key features of International Monetary Fund (IMF)-supported programs following the 2008 global financial crisis. The statistical analysis of a large sample of countries that borrowed from the IMF during 1997-2013 indicates that, compared to the amount of financing provided...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged global economies with unparalleled negative shock. Asia and Latin America have … America and Asia, such as the Latin American balance-of-payment crisis in the 1980s and a number of Latin American banking … challenged with worse debt dynamics and more limited access to dollar liquidity. Asia, instead, seems to have developed a much …
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The aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007 - 2009 has called the export-led growth model of Asian economies into question. This paper describes the contribution that macroeconomic policy can make to promote a rebalancing of growth away from dependence on exports to developed economies...
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future and they have been concerned by Japan's long-term recession. This paper will address why Japan's economy has stagnated … Paul Krugman, that the Japanese economy is in a liquidity trap. We argue that Japan's economic stagnation stems from a … vertical IS curve rather than a liquidity trap. The impact of fiscal policy has declined drastically, and the Japanese economy …
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This research piece is an empirical attempt to model the Indian economy at an aggregate level with annual data, ranging … growth in the Indian economy. However, the effectiveness of expansionary fiscal policy is observed to have a larger impact on … growth than easy monetary policy. This inference is drawn mainly on the basis of a simulation exercise for the proposed …
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, causing huge economic losses. Six months after the March lockdown, the Philippine economy has moved to the recovery stage, but …
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