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The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan … (China)--and the recent reforms to them provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All …. Experiences with diagnosis-related groups in Korea and Taiwan (China) point to cost-savings but also to possible knock-on effects …
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This paper examines the impacts of U.S.-China trade tensions via the lens of East Asian stock markets. Studying 10 …
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integration of China has deepened production fragmentation in East Asia, countering fears of crowding out other countries for … international specialization. International production fragmentation in East Asia has intensified intraregional trade but has … depended heavily on extraregional trade in final goods. While production networks centered on China have contributed …
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The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off …
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How do international economic agreements influence the investment patterns of firms from emerging economies? This paper studies the ways in which bilateral investment treaties and preferential trade agreements interact with geographic and cultural distance to influence firms' investment...
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This paper compares the raising of external equity capital from private equity investors via private investments in public equity (PIPEs) and seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) using a sample of 456 PIPEs and 1,910 SEOs drawn from nine Asian countries. Consistent with the idea that insiders...
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than domestic U.S. funds and world funds. When investigating abroad, U.S. mutual funds invest more in equity than in bonds …. World funds invest mainly in developed nations (Canada, Europe, Japan, and the United States). Ten percent of their … investment is in Asia, and Latin America. Mutual funds usually invest in a few countries within each region. Mutual fund …
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. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …
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This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle-income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' incomes. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
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During the crises of the 1990s, emerging economies usually lacked the policy tools to deal with external shocks that were available to advanced economies. Worldwide turbulent episodes found most emerging economies unable to perform countercyclical policies and, in many cases, their own...
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