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North Korea : the last transition economy?
Koen, Vincent; Beom, Jinwoan - 2020
The North Korean economy has been a statistical black hole for decades but is undergoing substantial transformations. Rapid post-war industrialisation was not sustained beyond the mid-1960s and South Korea’s economy far outpaced North Korea’s during the next three decades, during which trend...
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Economic corridors and regional development : the Malaysian experience
Athukorala, Premachandra; Narayanan, Suresh - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927790
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Is there a Southeast Asian development model?
Hill, Hal - 2014
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...
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Accelerating resilience and climate change adaptation: strengthening the Philippines' contribution to limit global warming and cope with its impacts
Monsod, Toby Melissa C.; Ahmed, Sara Jane; Hilario, Golda P. - 2021
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...
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The economic costs of climate change : a multi-sector impact assessment for Vietnam
Arndt, Channing; Tarp, Finn; Thurlow, James - 2012
. Biophysical damages are translated into economic costs using a dynamic economywide model. Our results for Vietnam indicate that … levels and cyclone strikes. Overall, climate change is likely to reduce Vietnam's national income by between one and two … change ; uncertainty ; multi-sector ; CGE model ; Vietnam …
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Corporate social responsibility in a competitive business environment
Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Trifkovic, Neda - 2016
Using a specially designed survey instrument in combination with a representative sample of Vietnamese enterprises, we explore firm-level efficiency effects of corporate social responsibility. We find a positive relationship between adoption of corporate social responsibility initiatives and...
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Growing richer and taller : explaining change in the distribution of child nutritional status during Vietnam's economic boom
O'Donnell, Owen; López Nicolás, Ángel; Van … - 2006
Over a five-year period in the 1990s Vietnam experienced annual economic growth of more than 8% and a decrease of 15 … covariates. This is done using data from the 1993 and 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys and a flexible decomposition …
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Who is an internal migrant?
Sharma, Rasadhika; Grote, Ulrike - 2019
There is no internationally accepted definition of an internal migrant. Different surveys and academic papers use varied definitions that are open to subjectivity. Our paper stresses this issue and tests the sensitivity of results obtained by econometric analysis to the use of different defining...
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Structural transformation, growth, and inequality : evidence from Viet Nam
Sarma, Vengadeshvaran; Paul, Saumik; Wan, Guanghua - 2017
the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (2002, 2006, and 2010), we estimate re-centered influence functions to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011618933
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Intercontinental evidence on socioeconomic status and early childhood cognitive skills : is Latin America different?
López Bóo, Florencia - 2013
school years) in four developing countries: Peru, Ethiopia, India, and Vietnam. Intercontinental evidence on the timing …
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