Since the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) on 31st December 2015, the members have achieved a significant milestone in the region's comprehensive and growing political, economic, and cultural integration, and each state has actively involved in this process by their own. This...

Marketing in general and trade promotion strategy, particularly, have to play an important role in promoting development of countries, especially of developing countries that seek to make exports as an engine for economic growth. This paper reviews the roles of marketing by investigating the...

This paper contributes to the literature on the effect of financial openness by investigating the factors and determinants which drive the income share to self-employed labor during financial liberalization. The question of the precise impact of liberalization on the share of the self-employed...

Does the quality of government (QoG) affect economic growth? Can a higher governance quality leads to a higher rate of economic growth? This paper will shed some lights on this debate by reinvestigating the relationship between the quality of government and economic growth utilizing four...

This paper contributes to the literature on the impact of financial liberalization by including the earnings of self-employed while investigating the core determinants and mechanisms driving the income share going to labor during financial integration. The question of the precise impact of...

The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health or developmental outcome. This paper exploits exogenous...

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chore and educational activities and less time on physical and media...