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FDI and Growth in East Asia: Lessons for Indonesia
Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2010
Foreign direct investment has been important in the economic growth and global economic integration of developing countries over the last decades. Both Northeast and Southeast Asia, especially the latter, have been part of this development with increasing inflows of FDI and greater foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320290
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Security Policies of India, Brazil and South Africa – Regional Security Contexts as Constraints for a Common Agenda
Flemes, Daniel; Costa Vaz, Alcides - 2011
In the course of the last decade, the IBSA states (India, Brazil, South Africa) have increased their weight in the … the state of and perspectives on bi- and trilateral collaboration initiatives on defense and armaments between India …Im Verlauf der letzten Dekade konnten die IBSA-Staaten (Indien, Brasilien, Südafrika) ihre Position in der sich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276000
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India's Reform of External Sector Policies and Future Multilateral Trade Negotiations
Srinivasan, T.N. - 2001
I evaluate India's transition from an inward-oriented development strategy to greater participation in the world … economy. While tariff rates have decreased significantly over the past decade, India is still one of the more autarkic … countries. Despite improvement over the past in export performance, India continues to lag behind its South- and East Asian …
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China and India: A Tale of Two Trade Integration Approaches
Kowalski, Przemyslaw - 2008
The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals … of public ownership and important regulatory barriers continue to dominate the services sectors. India has gone a long … still persists which likely adds to the hurdles faced by the Indian manufacturing sector. India has revealed a comparative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807627
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Ownership strategies in post-financial crisis Southeast Asia: The case of Japanese firms
Kawai, Norifumi; Jonas, Manja - 2007
Existing research on entry mode determinants is firmly grounded in the transaction cost and resource-based literature while location-and institution-specific characteristics lack attention. The primary goal of this article is to address the determinants of entry mode by Japanese manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302283
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Past and future of human capital in Southeast Asia: From 1970 to 2030
Goujon, Anne; Samir, K. C. - 2006
This paper examines levels of educational attainment in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam for the period 1970-2030 through the reconstruction and projection of levels of educational attainment. While the study of the past shows that the determination to invest in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352555
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E-Commerce in Southeast Asia: A Review of Developments, Challenges and Issues
Orbeta, Aniceto C. - 2000
This paper reviews the developments, challenges and issues in e-commerce in Southeast Asian countries. Given its implications for public policy, it focuses on e-commerce using the Internet. The review covers the developments in transaction values, the state of infrastructure (communication...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429640
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Assessing well-being using hierarchical needs
Clarke, Matthew - 2005
Determining whether well-being has improved is an important multidisciplinary task. It is important therefore to develop a multidimensional measure of well-being that reflects a wide spectrum of human needs. A new approach is presented in this paper based on multidimensional hierarchical human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284519
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Exploring Key External and Internal Factors Affecting State Performance in Southeast Asia
Jakobsen, Michael - 2015
The main aim of this article is to identify key external and internal factors that are capable of impacting and thus influencing directly or indirectly state performance in Southeast Asia with special emphasis on Myanmar, Vietnam and Singapore. The theoretical aim is to develop a framework for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142448
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Civil societies' reactions of East- and Southeast Asian countries to the Russian war on Ukraine: Preliminary observations
Malitz, David M. (contributor);  … - 2022
Undoubtedly, the war in Ukraine has far-reaching political and economic implications for many regions of the world, including East and Southeast Asia. The governments' reactions to the war have varied considerably ranging from fully supporting Ukraine in alliance with the United States and the...
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