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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 and rural development in the People's Republic of China

Chen, Zhao; Lu, Ming; Ni, Pengtu - 2016

This paper presents research findings on how urbanization enhances productivity and economic growth in both urban and rural sectors. Through agglomeration effects, employment opportunities and income levels can largely increase. In addition, the mechanisms of sharing, matching, and learning are...

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Rural development in Bangladesh over four decades : findings from Mahabub Hossain Panel Data and the way forward

Malek, Mohammad Abdul; Kikkawa, Aiko; Azad, Abul Kalam; … - 2022

comprehensive reference document for scholars and policymakers who wish to understand MHPD for possible use in their research; ii …

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Navigating WASH challenges in rural areas : peer effects and infrastructure

Kapsalyamova, Zhanna; Karymshakov, Kamalbek; … - 2024

Despite the well-documented benefits of improved sanitation and washing facilities, a considerable number of people, even in middle-income countries, still lack access to modern sanitation and home-based bathing facilities. This paper leverages household budget survey data from two Central Asian...

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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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Commercial bank innovations in small and medium-sized enterprise finance : global models and implications for Thailand

Tientip Subhanij - 2016

In Thailand, the government has long recognized the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the … important issue for Thailand may not be about the lack of financial assistance per se but about how to design an appropriate … Thailand. By making use of commercial banks' competitive advantage, Thailand can create a more market-friendly environment for …

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Measuring the effects of commodity price shocks on Asian economies

Inoue, Tomoo; Okimoto, Tatsuyoshi - 2017

Commodity prices have become volatile over the past 2 decades, and their recent sharp decline has decreased the consumer price index inflation rates for most economies. While many Asian economies have benefited from low international oil and food prices, commodity exporters have suffered. Thus,...

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Measuring multidimensional poverty in three Southeast Asian countries using ordinal variables

Berenger, Valérie - 2016

The primary objective of this paper is to highlight the contribution of the recent methodological refinements of poverty measures based on counting approaches using ordinal variables to the understanding of the evolution of poverty in Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Using the general...

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Poverty and nutrition : a case study of rural households in Thailand and Viet Nam

Waibel, Hermann; Hohfeld, Lena - 2016

reduction was especially successful. Thailand and Viet Nam are two emerging market economies where poverty rates are now below ….25 poverty line. Also, Thailand, after the economic crisis, with 19% of children underweight, is still above the World Health …

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