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Asia and Pacific region between 1990 and 2019 based on three widely used green industry classifications, namely US BLS GGS …
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Old-age income support is becoming an issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This is especially true in East and … Southeast Asia where the population is aging. This paper provides a broad overview of the current state of pension systems in …
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Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have emerged in developing Asia as a policy response to an unprecedented accumulation of … sensitivity of state-led FDI severely constrains the ability of developing Asia's SWFs to undertake FDI on a significant scale …. Therefore, the potential for developing Asia's SWFs to become major sources of outward FDI is more apparent than real. This …
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issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This is especially true in East Asia and Southeast Asia where the demographic …
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developing Asia. More specifically, we examine the root causes of the large and persistent current account surpluses that have … of welfare and economic growth. Based on our analysis, we recommend a number of concrete policy directions to help Asia …
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Asia has run since the 1997–1998 Asian crisis. A country's current account surplus is, by definition, equal to its net …
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Based on Cuesta (2000), this paper develops a stochastic frontier production model that allows for different groups of firms to have different patterns of technical efficiency over time. The authors apply the model to the Malaysian manufacturing sector to decompose total factor productivity...
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Developing Asia has traditionally relied on exports to the United States (US) and other industrialized countries for …
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is a growing consensus that Asia's reserves now substantially exceed the levels required for precautionary purposes or … reserves in developing Asia have in fact reached excessive levels. Informal tests of reserve adequacy based on widely used … confirm the popular belief that developing Asia now has excessive foreign exchange reserves. Therefore, the short-run policy …
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The central objective of this paper is to empirically examine the issue of fiscal sustainability in developing Asia. To …
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