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equitable society that provides opportunities for all. Developing Asia has trailed other parts of the world in equity …
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contagious. Will Asia catch it next? Asia has seen spectacular growth in recent decades. It has benefited substantially from … global trade, finance, openness and the rules-based international order. But much of the growth Asia has enjoyed has not been … shared. It has not been inclusive growth. Inequality in Asia is among the highest in the world. The richest man in Vietnam …
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trade within Asia while reducing trade outside. Adopting them would shift employment from energy and mining to manufacturing …
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inclusive growth than those in developing Asia. Therefore, as developing Asia explores the more active use of fiscal policy for … along with the need for developing Asia to maintain fiscal sustainability and economic growth. …
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The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power...
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individual subjective well-being from the intra-family perspective and investigates whether the gender satisfaction gap could be … 1994-2004. Life satisfaction is modelled with the help of the seemingly unrelated bivariate ordered probit model aiming at …
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Rising inequality and widespread poverty, social unrest and polarization, gender and ethnic disparities, declining social mobility, economic fragility, unbalanced growth due to technology and globalization, and existential danger from climate change are urgent global concerns of our day. These...
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This paper examines the evolution of female labor market outcomes from 1987 to 2008 by assessing the role of changing labor demand requirements in four developing countries: Brazil, Mexico, India and Thailand. The results highlight the importance of structural change in reducing gender...
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of Asia and its relation to the global economy. Using the new dynamic global model, we present forecasts for Asian … growth, especially for lower-income Asia. A deeper and more inclusive Asian free trade area can achieve for its members large …
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While developing Asia has recovered strongly from the global crisis, the region faces the medium- and long … Asia's growth. Our results also confirm the relevance of supply-side factors, in particular human capital and openness to … trade, for developing Asia's medium- and long-term growth. The overarching implication for policy makers is that supply …
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