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Impacts of COVID-19 on households in CAREC countries

Azhgaliyeva, Dina; Mishra, Ranjeeta; Trinh Quang Long; … - 2022

The impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak have heavily affected CAREC member countries, which include Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Pakistan, the People's Republic of China (PRC), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The COVID-19 crisis and the...

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Thailand's economic integration with neighboring countries and possible connectivity with South Asia

Suthiphand Chirathivat; Kornkarun Cheewatrakoolpong - 2015

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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Dynamic effect of a change in the exchange rate system : from a fixed regime to a basket-peg or a floating regime

Yoshino, Naoyuki; Kaji, Sahoko; Asonuma, Tamon - 2015

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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Urbanization, inequality, and poverty in the People's Republic of China

Zhang, Yuan - 2016

Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and provides further empirical evidence on the role of...

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Why do migrant households consume so little?

Chen, Xiaofen - 2017

Exploring data from the urban and migrant household surveys of the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP), this paper dissects the underlying causes of the depressing effect of the hukou system on migrant household consumption into two channels. On one hand, the disentitlement to local urban...

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Natural disasters, public spending, and creative destruction : a case study of the Philippines

Jha, Shikha; Martinez, Arturo; Quising, Pilipinas; … - 2018

Typhoons, floods, and other weather-related shocks can inflict suffering on local populations and create life-threatening conditions for the poor. Yet, natural disasters also present a development opportunity to upgrade capital stock, adopt new technologies, enhance the risk-resiliency of...

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Measuring the impact of road infrastructure on household well-being: evidence from Azerbaijan

Yusupov, Nurmukhammad - 2020

Infrastructure is often seen as a critical factor in economic development. However, impact assessment for infrastructure projects is a challenge due to a number of methodological issues. Both developing economies and countries in transition could benefit from such studies to better inform their...

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Impacts of COVID-19 on households in ASEAN countries and their implications for human capital development

Morgan, Peter J.; Long Quang Trinh - 2021

, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Our empirical results suggest that various household characteristics, including …

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Impacts of Covid-19 on households in ASEAN countries and their implications for human capital development : medium-run impacts and the role of government support

Morgan, Peter J.; Long Quang Trinh; Kim, Kunhyui - 2022

countries: Cambodia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Two …

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Small firms, human capital, and productivity in Asia

Vandenberg, Paul; Trinh, Long Q. - 2016

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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