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Poverty and ethnicity in Asian countries
Gradín, Carlos - 2016
This paper compares the extent and the nature of the higher prevalence of poverty among disadvantaged ethnic groups in six Asian countries using demographic surveys. We first estimate a composite wealth index as a proxy for economic status, and analyze the magnitude of the ethnic gap in absolute...
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India's emerging connectivity with Southeast Asia : progress and prospects
De, Prabir - 2014
investment. The potential gains from closer connectivity between South Asia and Southeast Asia are no doubt large. India …'s regional integration with Southeast Asia has been advancing well and several projects are being implemented at present. India …'s regional connectivity with Southeast Asia has been evolving on two pillars: northeast India for multimodal and intermodal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458163
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Europe's debt crisis, coordination failure, and international effects
Collignon, Stefan - 2012
This paper gives an overview of the causes of the European debt crisis and the consequences for the external relations. It finds that political mishandling has increased uncertainty, which has contributed to a tendency for the euro to become weaker.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009560024
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Plurilateral agreements : a viable alternative to the World Trade Organization?
Nakatomi, Michitaka - 2013
Looking back at the history of the World Trade Organization (WTO), major accords that have been reached under the multilateral framework to date are in substance issue-based "plurilateral" agreements. This paper looks at some specific examples of issue-based plurilateral agreements - such as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010193318
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Has the development gap between the ethnic minority and majority groups narrowed in Viet Nam? : evidence from household surveys
Fujii, Tomoki - 2017
Using household data for rural northern Viet Nam between 1993 and 2014, we find that the ethnic minority group continued to lag behind the majority group in various development indicators despite the overall improvement in living standards. Our regression and decomposition analyses show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610396
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Impact of the People's Republic of China's growth slowdown on emerging Asia : a general equilibrium analysis
Zhai, Fan; Morgan, Peter J. - 2016
in developing Asia as a whole. However, the impacts vary dramatically by economy within developing Asia, reflecting their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441148
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Infrastructure investment, private finance, and institutional investors : Asia from a global perspective
Inderst, Georg - 2016
This study evaluates infrastructure investment and finance in Asia from a global perspective. It provides an overview … on infrastructure needs and the various sources of private finance, globally and within Asia, and creates a "bigger … domestic product. The picture is expectedly not uniform across Asia, but some interesting features emerge from global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415958
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Optimal credit guarantee ratio for Asia
Yoshino, Naoyuki; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad - 2016
-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Asia. Owing to their significance to national economies, it is important to find ways to provide SMEs with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522082
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Mortgage lending and financial stability in Asia
Morgan, Peter J.; Zhang, Yan - 2015
We estimated the effect of the share of mortgage lending by individual banks (together with some control variables) on two measures of financial stability - the bank Z-score and the nonperforming loan ratio - for a sample of 212 banks in 19 emerging Asian economies for 2007–2013 from the...
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Major challenges facing small and medium-sized enterprises in Asia and solutions for mitigating them
Yoshino, Naoyuki; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad - 2016
Asia's economic success to have fully functioning support measures for SMEs. However, SMEs face challenges from limited … growth in Asia including i) lack of finance, ii) lack of comprehensive databases, iii) low level of R&D expenditures, and iv …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452863