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The impact of finance on the performance of Thai manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises

Amornkitvikai, Yot; Harvie, Charles - 2016

elaborates on the key sources of finance existing for Thai manufacturing SMEs and their importance for SME performance as … the results from the survey reveal that few Thai manufacturing SMEs actively seek external finance from these institutions …

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Adjustment to trade opening : the case of labor share in India's manufacturing industry

Gupta, Prachi; Helble, Matthias - 2018

The objective of this paper is to study how manufacturing plants in India adjusted to trade liberalization during the …

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Regional monetary cooperation in Latin America

Ocampo Gaviria, José Antonio; Titelman Kardonsky, Daniel - 2012

Latin American has the longest history of regional integration efforts in the developing world. This paper analyzes the experience of regional monetary cooperation in Latin America over the past three decades. This experience has been overall successful but also uneven, both in terms of country...

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Asia-Latin America free trade agreements : an instrument for inter-regional liberalization and integration

Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Ramizo, Dorothea; Burmeister, Luca - 2012

Trade integration and free trade agreement (FTA)-led cooperation between Asia and Latin America has increased since the early 2000s. Using new criteria, this paper examines whether Asia-Latin America FTAs have facilitated market-led integration by liberalizing trade and behind the border...

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Impact of the people's republic of China's slowdown on the global economy

Dinda, Soumyananda - 2017

Across the world, researchers and business analysts are closely watching the People’s Republic of China (PRC), especially its recent economic slowdown. The Asia and Pacific region is extremely anxious about the PRC’s slowdown, but the rest of the world has a definite reason to worry about...

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World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and subregional development banks in Latin America : dynamics of a system of multilateral development banks

Prada, Fernando - 2012

Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are an innovative institutional model to channel financing and knowledge to developing countries. In Latin America, the balance of forces between competition and collaboration among MDBs and other sources of development finance have formed a system that is...

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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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Small and medium enterprises in Japan : surviving the long-term recession

Uchikawa, Shuji - 2009

in manufacturing. While efficient SMEs selected by LEs were able to expand their businesses, inefficient SMEs lost …

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Harnessing foreign technology to improve firm performance : evidence from Philippine manufacturing enterprises

Gaspar, Raymond - 2022

technology to improve the performance of manufacturing firms in the Philippines. Using the fixed effects approach to World Bank … introducing foreign-licensed technology to manufacturing firms in terms of annual sales, employment, and energy intensity …. Interestingly, the impact is more pronounced and significant among manufacturing firms that conduct workforce trainings, thereby …

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Small and medium-sized enterprises in Nepal : examining constraints on exporting

Kharel, Paras; Dahal, Kshitiz - 2020

faced by manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Nepal, a landlocked least developed country, in …

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