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Timmer, C. Peter - 2008

C. Peter Timmer writes about the causes of high food prices, focusing on staple grains - rice in particular - and edible oils. He shows that although food prices have come down from the spikes of early 2008, they are likely to remain higher than they were in early 2007 for years to come. The...

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Developing Asia's Sovereign Wealth Funds and Outward Foreign Direct Investment

Park, Donghyun; Estrada, Gemma - 2009

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have emerged in developing Asia as a policy response to an unprecedented accumulation of foreign exchange (FX) reserves since 2000. At the same time, developing countries have become an increasingly important source of outward foreign direct investment (FDI). The...

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A Cross-Country Analysis of Achievements and Inequities in Economic Growth and Standards of Living

Son, Hyun - 2009

This paper compares achievements and inequities in standards of living across countries. Achievement is measured by an index, which is constructed to reflect greater achievement for an increase in the standard of living of a country that is already at a high level compared to that of another...

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Underlying Trends and International Price Transmission of Agricultural Commodities

Ghoshray, Atanu - 2011

reforms in order to understand both long-run and short-run relationships between world and domestic prices. …

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Mapping Vertical Trade

Ferrarini, Benno - 2011

bilateral network relations is then subjected to an algorithm that lays it out for visualization as a world map of vertical …

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Poverty in Asia and the Pacific: An Update

Wan, Guanghua; Sebastian, Iva - 2011

largest number of the world's poor. In 2008, around 63% of the poor worldwide lived in the region. …

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When Fast Growing Economies Slow Down: International Evidence and Implications for the People's Republic of China

Eichengreen, Barry; Park, Donghyun; Shin, Kwanho - 2011

This paper analyzes international historical evidence and finds that economic growth slows down when per capita income reaches US{dollar}17,000.

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Asia's Role in the New United States Export Economy

James, William E.; Camingue, Shiela - 2011

States (US) to the world and to developing Asia. They find that much of the apparent shift in export product shares was a … to an even greater extent than for the world as a whole. In contrast, the People's Republic of China tends to import a … than the world as a whole." …

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Effectiveness of Capital Restrictions: Do Regional and Income Differences Matter?

Gochoco-Bautista, Maria Socorro; Francisco, Ruth H. - 2011

This study examines the differences in the effectiveness of de jure capital restrictions across economies in different regions (Asia versus non-Asia) and with varying income levels. It uses a panel of 45 economies over the period 1995– 2007. The results show that differences in regional and...

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Asia's Changing Role in World Trade: Prospects for South - South Trade Growth to 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - 2011

from the North Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade, and boosting South–South trade. How will trade … of the world? In particular, what can be expected of developing Asia's intraregional trade and its trade with other … developing country regions? This paper addresses these questions by projecting a core baseline for the world economy from 2004 to …

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