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Scenarios and Options for Productivity Growth in Philippine Agriculture: An Application of the Agricultural Multimarket Model for Policy Evaluation (AMPLE)
Briones, Roehlano M. - 2010
Sustaining and accelerating agricultural growth remains a development imperative in view of persistent rural poverty and emerging threats to food security. While growth can be achieved by expansion of agricultural area and input intensification, growth through improvement in productivity is a...
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Oil spaces: Exploring the global petroleumscape
Hein, Carola (contributor) - 2022
Oil Spaces traces petroleum's impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment in ways that are often not visible or recognized. Over the past century...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280259
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Determinants of Locating R&D Activity in the Philippines: Policy Implications
Yap, Josef T.; Macasaquit, Mari-Len R.; Gonzales, … - 2010
the first set of factors relate to the home country. A survey of firms operating in the Philippines was conducted to … determine which factors are deemed important and areas where the Philippines is deemed inadequate. The findings have important … encourage firms to locate in the Philippines are: (i) good quality of education; and (ii) protection of intellectual property …
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Oil in Uganda: Hard bargaining and complex politics in East Africa
Patey, Luke A. - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012663541
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Under the mountains: Kurdish oil and regional politics
Mills, Robin - 2016
The development of major oil and gas reserves in the autonomous Kurdish Region of Iraq (KRI) is a recent phenomenon which has attracted major media and industry interest. It represents the rare case, in recent history, of the discovery of a large new onshore conventional petroleum province. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012663544
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The regional impact of Indonesia's fiscal policy on oil and gas: Options for reform
Agustina, Cut Dian R. D.; Fengler, Wolfgang; Schulze, … - 2011
This paper analyzes the regional impact of Indonesia's fuel policy. It discusses how the sharing of oil and gas revenue and taxes on oil and gas between the center and the regions affect sub-national fiscal position and what the regional incidence of the fuel subsidies is. It also analyzes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325138
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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 … education. The Philippines will have a dichotomous society where large proportions will either have a tertiary education or only …
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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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