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This working paper analyzes demographic change in Southeast Asia's main cities during and soon after the World War II Japanese occupation.  We argue that two main patterns of population movements are evident.  In food-deficient areas, a search for food security typically led to large net...
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Between the 1870s and World War II, falls in world shipping costs and Western industrialisation gave rise to export-led Southeast Asian growth and specialization in a narrow range of primary commodity exports.  A linked development was the emergence of a few dominant Southeast Asian urban...
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this method to Indonesia’s and Japan’s pre- and post-decentralization eras, beset by efficiency–equity trade-offs between …. First, as excessive economic activity regions in two countries, the capital region in Japan mostly shows the highest returns … concentration in the Java-Bali region before and after decartelization regime while the Japan’s government pursues the pro …
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This paper analyzes how Japan financed its World War II occupation of Southeast Asia, the transfer of resources to … Japan, and the monetary and inflation consequences of Japanese policies. In Malaya, Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines … inflation ,hyperinflation hardly occurred because of a sustained transactions demand for money, because of Japan’s strong …
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This paper analyzes how Japan financed its World War II occupation of Southeast Asia, the transfer of resources to … Japan, and the monetary and inflation consequences of Japanese policies. In Malaya, Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines … inflation, hyperinflation hardly occurred because of a sustained transactions demand for money, because of Japan's strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010787762
The Ottoman Empire was an imperial superpower that manifested its domination in the Mediterranean zone between 1299 and 1922. At the moment of their maximum glory, the ottomans ruled over three continents, meaning 19,9 millions km2. The tax system applied during 600 years, but also the...
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It is often claimed that what is popularly known as the "flying geese paradigm" of dynamic comparative advantage has accurately depicted the East Asian catching-up process. This paper presents a critical study of the paradigm, as well as its application to the current situation in East Asia...
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The recent rapid growth of China’s economy has reopened historical debate about the extent to which it prospered during the Míng and Qīng dynasties (1368-1911) through developing a significant market orientation on the base of its underlying agricultural bureaucratic feudalism. As a...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by using convergence hypothesis. Earlier studies that examined regional disparities of development used per capita State Net Domestic Product (SNDP) as an important proxy for...
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decentralization, marketization, urbanization, and globalization. The research uses Moran’s I index and the spatial regression model … inland provinces. This disparity is attributed to the joint influence of processes of marketization, urbanization, and …
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