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Public Procurement in the Belt and Road Initiative
Ghossein, Tania - 2018
China's "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI) includes major infrastructure investment projects - roads, ports, railways - that aim to improve connectivity along a number of transport corridors spanning 71 countries. In this paper we find that notwithstanding the large scale of the initiative,...
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On the allocation of resources in developing East Asia and Pacific
De Nicola, Francesca; Kehayova, Vera; Nguyen, Ha - 2018
Over the past decades, East Asia and Pacific's productivity has been gradually catching up with the frontier (the United States), with China leading the pack. Productivity growth has been driven by sustained within-sector productivity growth. Reallocation of labor to sectors with higher...
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Innovation for development and the role of government : a perspective from the East Asia and Pacific region
Fan, Qimiao (contributor) - Innovation for Development Forum <Shanghai, China)> - 2009
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World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, April 2018 : Enhancing Potential
2018
Developing EAP grew slightly faster than anticipated in 2017. The growth of regional GDP excluding China is forecast to accelerate in 2018, while China's GDP growth is expected to moderate as the economy keeps rebalancing. Major downside risks include volatility associated with faster than...
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Growing Smarter : Learning and Equitable Development in East Asia and Pacific
2018
One-quarter of the world's school-age children live in East Asia and Pacific. During the past 50 years, some economies …
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World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, October 2018 : Navigating Uncertainty
The World Bank - 2019
Despite some financial turbulence, growth in developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) was resilientduring the first half of 2018. The growth outlook for the region remains positive. After peaking in2017, growth in developing EAP is expected to slow modestly in 2018, as China's economicexpansion...
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World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, April 2019 : Managing Headwinds
2009
Despite global economic volatility, growth in developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) was resilientduring 2018, and in the first quarter of 2019. The growth outlook for developing EAP is expected tosoften in 2019, as China's economic expansion continues to moderate. Downside risks...
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World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, October 2019 : Weathering Growing Risks
2020
Growth in the developing East Asia and Pacific region slowed in the first half of 2019 given weakening global demand and heightened policy uncertainty amid ongoing trade tensions. Steady consumption growth helped to partly offset the effects of weakening exports and investment on growth. The...
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World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, Spring 2020 : Preparedness and Vulnerabilities/ Global Reverberations of COVID-19
World Bank Group - 2020
Growth in the developing East Asia and Pacific region slowed sharply in 2020Q1 because of the negative impact of the Covid-19 on economic activity. The decline has been broad-based reflecting the interconnectedness of the EAP economies and reverberations from the global economy as the virus...
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East Asia and Pacific Economic Update October 2020 : From Containment to Recovery
The World Bank - 2020
Conditions in the region and the rest of the world have changed dramatically since the April 2020 Regional Economic … Update (World Bank 2020a). In addition to still unfolding unprecedented health crisis, the world is now experiencing the … deepest global recession since the Second World War (World Bank 2020b). The global economy is projected to contract by 5 …
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