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The economic miracle'' in South Korea over the past three decades has been supported by a corresponding increase in electric generating capacity in a relatively short period of time, accomplished in a country with limited domestic energy resources and large commitments of capital to...
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This paper is concerned with the determinants of international steam-coal trade. Most work in projecting coal trade has been either qualitative (a consensus of experts) or, if quantitative, has been based on competitive spatial-equilibrium models. Unfortunately, the competitive model of trade...
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This paper reports the results of a study of the audit expectation gap in Singapore, conducted in 1996 and supports the call for a change in audit report format and wording to a longer form audit report currently in use in Australia and America. The main aims of the study were to measure the...
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Time-series work on trade policy and growth is handicapped by the difficulty of measuring 'trade policy'. Established definitions of trade orientation such as 'bias' or the 'effective rate of protection' are difficult to operationalise in a time-series context because of enormous data...
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The unprecedented severity of the Asian economic recession in Thailand came as a shock to the indigenous corporate sector. Businesses long habituated to record levels of growth were suddenly confronted with spiralling costs and declining sales. In response to this crisis a number of powerful...
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was conducted using a web-based questionnaire sent to all Asia-related hedge funds, worldwide. Analysis of the collected …
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While earlier empirical studies found a negative saving effect of old-age dependency rates without considering longevity, recent studies have found that longevity has a positive effect on growth without considering old-age dependency rates. In this paper, we first justify the related yet...
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High employee turnover rates among multinational companies (MNCs) in Asia have become an organisational issue, which … region and Asia are discussed. …
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manufacturing MNCs with insights into managerial and professional recruitment trend in Asia. …
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This study evaluated the views of a range of 20-to 35-year-old Chinese respondents regarding the applicability and relevance-in today's modern China-of various traditional Chinese values such as trust, respect and guanxi, in regard to personal, social, business and consumer behavior contexts. It...
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