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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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An export-oriented development strategy fostered the Asia Paci?c region?s economic success, making it the fastest … demand from China boosted intraregional trade in Asia. Although China?s Asian trading partners bene?t from increasing exports …
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extended period, developing Asia has on average been particularly successful in diversifying its exports, particularly in … is, through entry into completely new products. In addition, developing Asia has on average benefited significantly from …
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This paper examines the micro and macro correlates of aid project outcomes in a sample of 3,821 World Bank projects and 1,342 Asian Development Bank projects. Project outcomes vary much more within countries than between countries: country-level characteristics explain only 10?25 percent of...
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As evidence from rigorous impact evaluations grows in development, there have been more calls to complement impact evaluation analysis with cost analysis, so that policy makers can make investment decisions based on costs as well as impacts. This paper discusses important considerations for...
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supported by data from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. A growing number of studies from a range of contexts therefore indicate …
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This paper documents the major trends in financial development in Asia since the early 1990s and the spillovers to … firms. It compares Asia with advanced and emerging countries and uses both aggregate and disaggregate indicators. Financial … systems in Asia remain less developed than in advanced countries but more developed than in Eastern Europe and Latin America …
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Natural resource abundance can lead to strong economic growth if resource rents are well invested in physical assets and other forms of productive capital. This paper focuses on the case of the resource-abundant economies in Eurasia, which has been less documented in the literature on natural...
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barriers in Eurasia, East Asia and the Pacific, and the European Union. Using the most recent data from sources including the … diversification toward the East Asia and the Pacific and the European Union regions. It also highlights the potential benefits of … Asia and the Pacific region (especially China) appears to be more protectionist than the European Union, suggesting a …
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This paper reviews the prospects for long-term food security in Asia, where a significant number of malnourished … prices is well known, but Asia's potential contributions toward future decreased price uncertainty are much less cited. The …
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