The 10 states of Southeast Asia have combined to form the developing world’s most successful and durable regional grouping, the Association of Southeast Asian Na-tions, ASEAN. Economic integration among them is high and increasing. The ambi-tious ASEAN Economic Community is scheduled to take...

The paper explores quantified ways of incorporating social development goals and basic needs indicators in economy-wide models. We evaluate the welfare and productivity effects of higher satisfactions against the costs involved, and examine the optimal ordering of various social and economic...

China has in recent decades expanded its wind power generation capacity and become the world leader. Still, despite robust government support, wind power in China is obstructed by various barriers (e.g. quality deficiencies, inability to export, missing grid connections, and permit delays from...

Turkey has been a middle-income country for nearly half a century. Unlike Turkey, South Korea has managed to rapidly grow and become a high-income country. The success of South Korea may be an inspiration for many developing countries that cannot move from the middle-income trap, such as Turkey....

The difference between Egypt and other countries when struggling to recover, is that there's always a missing link between what the government actually plans to do and what it reveals to the people about the situation, between that and the actual perceived results, there remains an unanswered...

This paper examines prerequisites for a successful interstate economic corridor development program in a country with a federal system of government through an in-depth study of the design, implementation, and the developmental impact of the Northern Corridor Economic Region (NCER) in Malaysia...

Industrialization transformed the agrarian landscape of Europe and US into a land of glass amp; steel with bellowing chimneys dotting cities amp; country side. This massive transformation of economy catalyzed drastic, often calamitous, changes in social structure, attitudes and beliefs. Similar...

In its first Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement, the Philippines committed to a GHG emissions reduction/avoidance of 75 percent for the period 2020 to 2030, referenced against a projected business-as-usual cumulative emission for the same period. However, the numbers...

This paper examines prerequisites for a successful interstate economic corridor development program in a country with a federal system of government through an in-depth study of the design, implementation, and the developmental impact of the Northern Corridor Economic Region (NCER) in Malaysia...