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Myanmar in Transition: Opportunities and Challenges
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012
abundant labor force, rich natural resources, and geographical location.But the country faces many development challenges to … location between the People’s Republic of China and India, and act as a conduit between South and Southeast Asia.In order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010760358
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The Informal Sector and Informal Employment in Bangladesh - Country Report 2010
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012
, the resulting estimates, labor productivity, and the characteristics of informal sector production units. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276460
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Growing Beyond the Low-Cost Advantage: How the People's Republic of China Can Avoid the Middle Income Trap?
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012
The economic success of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over the last 3 decades has brought with it new challenges. Rising wages and population aging mean that future growth needs to rely more on productivity improvement through industrial upgrading and innovation, and transition from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276467
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Life Under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900
Bengtsson, Tommy; Campbell, Cameron; Lee, James Z. - The MIT Press
scholars in economics, environmental studies, demography, history, and sociology as well as the general reader interested in …This highly original book -- the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia … -- pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004972996
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Life Under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900
Bengtsson, Tommy; Campbell, Cameron; Lee, James Z. - The MIT Press
scholars in economics, environmental studies, demography, history, and sociology as well as the general reader interested in …This highly original book -- the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia … -- pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991823
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Contract Farming in Thailand: A View from the Farm
Delforge, Isabelle - eSocialSciences - 2009
The study presents an initial assessment of the situation and to raise the main issues in terms of farmers’ and workers’ rights. It is part of a long term process involving farmer movements, trade unions, NGOs and international organisations aimed at developing strategies by which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512438
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Corporate Governance, Evolution of Corporate Laws and Asian Economic Development into the 21st Century
Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
of the current economic and financial crisis in South East and East Asia. It addresses the problem of corporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615040
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El Modelo Neoschumpeteriano de Crecimiento Endógeno: una reseña de los trabajos de Philippe Aghion y coautores
Destinobles, André Gérald; Aragón, Julia Hernández - In: Contribuciones a la Economía (2011) 2011-08
El entendimiento de los factores que explican el crecimiento económico en América Latina y la persistencia de diferencias de tasas de crecimiento entre las economías asiáticas, generalmente, ha sido abordado y analizado principalmente en el marco de la teoría de crecimiento económico...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320144
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From Economic Meltdown to Social Crunch – Impact of the Global Economic Recession on Social Capital Building in Developing Countries and What We still Don't Know!
Wong, Sam - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper draws on the experiences of the Far East Economic Crisis in 1998 and argues that: (1) the poor depended heavily on bonding social capital during the Crisis, but the crunch-point beyond which they felt no longer able to rely on this is less certain; (2) bridging social capital could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323686
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The Don Sahong Dam: Potential Impacts on Regional Fish Migrations, Livelihoods and Human Health
Bird, Ian - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper focuses on the Don Sahong Dam (DSD’s) potential impacts on fish and fisheries, and particularly the project’s regional implications in relation to fisheries, including its possible impacts on food security, nutrition and poverty alleviation in Laos and neighbouring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323693