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Export
Performance of South and East Asia in Modern Services, 2013.
Advancements in information and communications technologies (ICTs)
have increased the possibilities for trade in modern services
and many Asian emerging and developed economies are
participating increasingly in these new trade activities. This
paper examines the export performance of these emerging and
developed Asian economies in selected modern services: computer
and information services, business and professional services,
and telecommunications services, using a stochastic frontier
gravity type model... |
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ASARC |
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International Journal of Korean Studies,
Volume XVI, Number 2, 2012
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International Journal of Korean Studies,
Volume XVI, Number 1, 2012
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Finish the Job: Jump-Start Afghanistan's Economy, November
2012.
This paper begins by acknowledging the dire political and
security situation facing Afghanistan as the U.S. and NATO
draw down their forces there. However, it sees the key
driver of change not in these spheres, important as they
are, but in the economy, which could plummet with the sudden
loss of orders for goods and services resulting from the
military drawdown. Unless the economic crisis is addressed,
the political and security situations will not improve... |
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Against the Grain: How Georgia Fought Corruption and What It
Means, September 2012.
In recent years, the struggle against corruption has turned
into a major industry with an estimated global turnover of
at least US$ 100 million annually. Deeply marred by
corruption, the post-Soviet region has been one of the main
target areas. The international consensus on how corruption
should be fought is based on a gradual approach where the
key challenge is to build momentum by targeting corruption
in some particularly affected sectors... |
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ISDP |
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Sovereign Risk, Elections, and Contagion, May 2013
aims to quantify the political risk effect
and its different economic implications in normal and crisis
situations through the proxy analysis of election and the
sovereign bond spreads. This study leads to three main findings.
First, in normal economic situations, elections and government
turnovers expand bond spreads, demonstrating investors’ concern
over the possibility of government policies or instability
brought by the election. During a crisis, however, investors
prefer change, indicating hope in new policies ameliorate public
finances. Second... |
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ADB |
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How Expansion of Public Services Affects the Poor: Benefit
Incidence Analysis for the Lao People's Democratic Republic, May
2013. Studies of the incidence of
benefits from public services have rightly stressed the
difference between average and marginal benefits. Cross
sectional methods of analysis for Lao PDR indicate that for
public education and health services, total benefits are highest
for the best-off quintile groups. Nevertheless, these groups’
shares of marginal benefits are generally considerably lower and
the marginal benefit shares of poorer quintile groups are
correspondingly higher... |
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ADB |
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Governance and Economic Integration: Stakes for Asia, May 2013
assesses the nexus between changes in governance structures—at
national and cooperative international levels—and evolutionary
processes of economic integration in light of regional policy
targets in Asia. The analysis highlights the importance of
improved governance as an essential condition for effectively
attaining an "Asian Economic Community" while arguing that the
experience of the European Union offers valuable insights
regarding the process of integration.. |
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ADB |
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Development Trajectories, Emission Profile, and Policy Actions:
Singapore, May 2013.
Singapore is the
most industrialized and urbanized country in Southeast Asia and
is totally dependent on oil and natural gas imports to satisfy
its energy needs. Its national energy policy framework seeks to
find a balance between maintaining Singapore’s competitiveness,
improving energy security, and enhancing environmental
sustainability. This paper discusses where Singapore stands with
regard to its energy consumption and CO2 emissions, its energy
policies to date, and those that will be implemented in the near
future. |
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ADB |
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What Lessons Can Asia Draw from Capital Controls in Brazil
during 2008-2012? May 2013.
Driven by waves
of foreign capital inflows and outflows, Indonesia, the Republic
of Korea, and Thailand—among several other emerging markets—have
resorted to capital control policy since 2006. Are capital
controls effective? Controls on capital inflows have been
experiencing a renaissance since 2008, with several prominent
Asian and Latin American countries implementing them. This paper
focuses on Brazil, which instituted five changes in its capital
account regime over 2008–2011. It concludes that the
effectiveness of capital controls should be viewed on a
case-by-case basis, together with the political economy
considerations, and other policy tools, i.e., foreign exchange
intervention. |
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ADB |
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Virginia Review of Asian Studies
2013
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The
Emerging Japan-India Relationship: Nuclear Anachronism,
Militarism and Growth Fetish, May 2013.
The emerging India-Japan relationship has been met with
extreme reactions – from enthusiasm and protests in
India and Japan, to concern in China. This new
“strategic partnership,” and particularly the nuclear
cooperation under negotiation, does not portend well for
Asia. P K Sundaram, a strong advocate of better
relations between the people of India and Japan, tells
us why... |
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APJ |
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Much Ado
over Small Islands: The Sino-Japanese Confrontation over
Senkaku/Diaoyu, May 2013. More
than six decades from the San Francisco Treaty that
purportedly resolved the Asia-Pacific War and created a
system of peace, East Asia in 2013 remains troubled by
the question of sovereignty over a group of tiny,
uninhabited islands. The governments of Japan, China,
and Taiwan all covet and claim sovereignty over the
Senkaku/Diaoyu islands... |
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APJ |
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Concentrating Solar Power – China’s New Solar Frontier,
May 2013. While all eyes have
been focused on China’s dramatic recasting of the global
solar PV industry, and the trade disputes engendered
with the US and EU, there is another solar frontier now
emerging, involving grid-connected concentrating solar
power (CSP) plants. China is committed to developing
capacity of 3 GW by 2015 (more than doubling cumulative
world capacity) and 10 GW by 2020, which would make it
by far the world’s CSP leader, with consequent dramatic
impact on cost reductions, driving the diffusion of CSP
around the world as key challenger and alternative to
nuclear and fossil power... |
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APJ |
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After
Hiroshima, May 2013. By taking on
the incomprehensible destruction wrought by the atomic
bomb in the book After Hiroshima, artist elin o’Hara
slavick faces a void of annihilation that transcends
expression, and yet, with meticulous care and
consciousness, she produces photographic exposures that
illuminate the unspeakable. Through works of troubling
beauty, slavick enacts a temporal rupture, unearthing a
moment that has been relegated to the historical past by
saying, with stark but quiet clarity, that Hiroshima
1945 is not over... |
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APJ |
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Education or Migrant Labor: A New Dilemma in China's
Borderland, May 2013. Early
21st-cenutry China is undergoing several radical
transformations that are profoundly affecting its
physical, social, and cultural fabric. Not as dramatic,
perhaps, as the earlier series of Land Reform,
collectivization, Great Leap Forward, Cultural
Revolution, and final decollectivization that framed the
era of Mao Zedong’s state socialism, the current
processes of urbanization, labor migration,
universalization of education, transport network
modernization, reconstruction of villages, and social
class formation, nevertheless seem destined to have an
even more permanent and profound effect on the physical
landscape, social structure, and culture of the world’s
largest nation... |
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APJ |
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Lessons
from Fukushima: An Assessment of the Investigations of
the Nuclear Disaster, May 2013.
Following the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011, the
Japanese Cabinet, the Japanese Diet, a private-sector
group as well as the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear facility, TEPCO, each set up an investigation
commission to examine the causes of the accident,
scrutinize the crisis response and make recommendations
for future policies. This article provides some
background on the four commissions and then examines and
assesses the contents of the reports. Four key
conclusions emerge from the analysis... |
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APJ |
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An
Emerging Fukushima Model? May 2013.
After two years in which international attention focused
on Fukushima as an emblem of disaster, Fukushima's plans
for immense floating wind farm projects have begun to
attract international attention. This April 15 article
“Fukushima Moves Forward With World’s Largest Wind Farm”
reminds us that the prefecture’s projects are bold
initiatives which could pioneer a new model of offshore
and large-scale deployment. The article also lauds
Fukushima’s aim of getting 40% of its power from
renewables by 2020, and then fully 100% by 2040... |
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APJ |
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South
Korea's Christian Military Chaplaincy in the Korean War
- Religion as Ideology? May 2013.
The present paper examines the military chaplaincy in
the context of a problem which has long intrigued
researchers, namely the reasons for the rapid growth of
the Christian (Protestant and Catholic) churches in
1950-80s South Korea compared to Japan or Taiwan. The
author suggests that, whereas a general answer to the
question may be the use of Christianity as a de facto
state ideology in the years 1948-1960 and its
functioning as an ideology of capitalist modernisation
in the 1960s-80s, a particularly important part of
government-induced Christianization of South Korea was
the institution of military chaplaincy... |
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APJ |
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Deciphering
Australia's Defense Budget, May 2013.
Mark Thomson, Senior Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy
Institute (ASPI), explains that “If the symbolic political
target of a budget surplus cannot be reached, the remaining
constraints on spending are weak. So, counter intuitively, the
failure to deliver a surplus has enabled an increase in defense
spending.” |
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EWC |
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South Korea:
National Security or National Pride Regarding Japan? May 2013.
Krista E. Wiegand, recent POSCO Visiting Fellow at the East-West
Center, explains that "The South Korean government will not be
able to deal with the larger issue of security relations with
Japan until disputed issues symbolized by Dokdo/Takeshima are
sufficiently resolved—and the likelihood of this happening
anytime soon is fairly low." |
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EWC |
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Europe's
Innovation Union--Beyond Techno-Nationalism? August 2012.
This paper traces recent transformations in Europe's innovation
policy--the move towards EU-wide policy coordination in the form
of an "Innovation Union." A deep fiscal crisis and increasingly
severe austerity policies are slowing down Europe's move towards
greater openness and internationalization of its innovation
system. The paper asks whether Europe has left behind for good
"techno-nationalism," or whether government action in support of
high-tech industries through various forms of protectionist
policies is re-emerging, this time however on a region-wide
scale. This question is of relevance to current policy debates
about the role of innovation in the US as well as in Asia's
emerging economies. The paper specifically explores what lessons
the US and emerging Asia might draw from Europe's move towards
an EU-wide Innovation Strategy. |
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EWC |
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Global
Technology Sourcing in China's Integrated Circuit Design
Industry: A Conceptual Framework and Preliminary Findings,
August 2012.
The paper examines the role of global technology sourcing, and
its drivers and impacts in China's integrated circuit (IC)
design industry. IC design is one of the priority targets of
China's innovation policy, as codified especially in the
"Strategic Emerging Industries" initiative. At the same time,
however, China's IC design industry is deeply integrated into
the vertically disintegrated global semiconductor industry,
through markets, investment and technology. The paper highlights
a fundamental challenge for China's innovation strategy: How can
China reconcile its primary objective of strengthening
indigenous innovation with the benefits that it could reap from
its deep integration into international trade and into global
networks of production and innovation. |
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EWC |
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Public-Private Dialogue on Investment - Corporate Social
Responsibility for Local Communities, June 2013.
This report provides a summary and recommendations of the
dialogue held in Indonesia in January 2013. |
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APEC |
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International Investment Agreements Negotiators Handbook:
APEC/UNCTAD MODULES, May 2013 aims to
provide practical and user-friendly information to negotiators
of International Investment Agreements (IIAs) in order to assist
them in the decision-making process towards concluding IIAs
compatible with national policy objectives. For experienced
negotiators, the Handbook offers a quick and practical reminder
of the main policy options, issues and implications at stake.
For less experienced negotiators and other government officials,
it helps to better understand IIAs. Written in plain language,
it may also serve as an educational tool for capacity building. |
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APEC |
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APEC's Bogor Goals Dashboard, May 2013
was compiled by the Policy Support Unit and includes indicators
gathered from respectable public sources only. The Dashboard
includes information publicly available as at 10 January 2013.
The purpose of the Dashboard is to provide easy-to-understand
figures to track the advances in areas critical to promoting
greater regional economic integration, such as liberalization
and facilitation of trade and investment. The intention is to
display a set of harmonized indicators laying out the evolution
across time of certain aspects of trade and investment
liberalization and facilitation in quantitative terms, and to
complement the Bogor Goals Progress Reports as part of the
assessment to determine APEC’s progress towards these goals. |
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APEC Wine Regulatory Forum 2012, Published 2013.
On 5-10 November 2012, the APEC Wine Regulators Forum meeting
'Risk Management & Certification in Wine Trade: Public-Private
Dialogue' was held in Auckland, New Zealand. This was a
follow-up to the highly successful meeting in San Francisco,
USA, in September 2011. The key themes of the meeting were risk
management and certification in the APEC wine trade. |
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APEC |
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The Service Sector in Lower-Income Asian Economies, May 2013.
In the past 10 years, the service sector has been a significant
contributor to overall economic growth in Bangladesh, Cambodia,
Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Uzbekistan, and Viet Nam. Sector growth
has been supported by strong industrial growth in some while in
others the critical factors have been liberalization, structural
reforms, government support, and foreign investments. In order
to increase the labor productivity of the sector and realize its
potential to contribute to inclusive growth, these countries
must address gaps in human capital and the higher costs of
setting up new businesses and of doing business that stifle
entrepreneurship and private enterprise... |
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ADB |
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Are Government-Linked Corporations Crowding out Private
Investment in Malaysia? May 2013.
Private investment in Malaysia has been sluggish since the Asian
financial crisis. One explanation is that the growing presence
of government-linked corporations (GLCs) has been crowding out
private investment. This paper presents evidence of the negative
impact government-linked corporations have on private investment
in Malaysia due to their dominance over private firms in various
sectors. |
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ADB |
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Exporting and Innovation: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence from
the People's Republic of China, April 2013.
Using firm-level data from the People's Republic of China (PRC)
and matching econometrics, the paper finds that exporters invest
more in innovation than non-exporters. Still, exporting has a
smaller impact on innovation among firms in the electronics
sectors, located at coastal areas, and foreign-owned... |
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ADB |
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Corporate Investments in Asian Emerging Markets: Financial
Conditions, Financial Development, and Financial Constraints,
April 2013.
Motivated by the literature on the finance–growth nexus, this
paper explores the mechanisms through which finance affects
corporate investments and capital accumulation... |
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ADB |
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Disaster Risk Management in Asia and the Pacific: Issues Paper,
April 2013.
This issues paper aims to help ADB DMC governments integrate
Disaster Risk Management into their national developmental
strategies and examine how emerging economies of Asia can
cooperate to improve their disaster risk management practices,
in view of increasing risks of compound disasters, climate
change, and expanding production networks... |
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ADB |
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Impact of the Global Crisis on Asian Migrant Workers and Their
Families: A Survey-Based Analysis with a Gender Perspective,
April 2013.
This publication examines the impact of the crisis among migrant
workers and their families - with a gender perspective - to
provide useful information for better evidence-based policy
making. Based on household surveys in Indonesia and the
Philippines, the results show that women are in worse condition
and are more vulnerable than men... |
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ADB |
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Connecting South Asia and Southeast Asia: Interim Report,
Published 2013.
This interim report analyzes how closer regional connectivity
and economic integration between South Asia and Southeast Asia
can benefit both subregions, with a focus on the role played by
infrastructure and public policies in facilitating this process.
It examines major developments in South Asia–Southeast Asia
trade and investment, economic cooperation, the role of economic
corridors, and regional cooperation initiatives... |
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ADB |
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Low-Carbon Green Growth in Asia: Policies and Practices:
Executive Summary, Published 2013.
This booklet is an executive summary of a forthcoming book that
will review and assess the low-carbon and green policies and
practices taken by Asian countries. Low-carbon green growth is
an imperative for developing Asia and the region must be at the
center in the fight against climate change. Many emerging
economies have started the shift toward a new sustainable
development paradigm that will bring competitiveness to their
industries and serve growing green technology markets. |
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ADB |
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Managing Migration to Support Inclusive and Sustainable Growth,
Published 2013.
This booklet is an executive summary of a forthcoming book that
will review and assess the low-carbon and green policies and
practices taken by Asian countries. Low-carbon green growth is
an imperative for developing Asia and the region must be at the
center in the fight against climate change. Many emerging
economies have started the shift toward a new sustainable
development paradigm that will bring competitiveness to their
industries and serve growing green technology markets. |
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ADB |
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Bhutan Living Standards Survey 2012 Report, Published 2013.
The report presents the analysis on the progress of Bhutan in
improving their people's lives in terms of health, education,
employment, income and expenditure, housing, access to public
facilities and services, social capital and also in terms of
non-traditional measures, such as self-rated poverty and
happiness. The BLSS 2012, together with the BLSS 2007, is an
important tool for assessing the government's 2008–2013
development plan. It will also be an important input for the
succeeding government plan... |
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ADB |
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The Global Financial Crisis, Future of the Dollar, and the
Choice for Asia, Published 2011. This
book contains papers delivered at the conference "The Global
Financial Crisis, Future of the Dollar, and the Choice of Asia"
held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, on 1 June 2009. It also
contains verbatim records of the round table discussions at the
conference. The participants' candid comments on such topics as
the economic rise of the People's Republic of China, the future
of the dollar as a reserve currency, and the prospects for
economic recovery offer valuable insights into the thinking of
leading scholars and policymakers as Asia worked to recover from
the global financial crisis that had begun two years earlier. |
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ADB |
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Sovereign Credit Ratings, May 2013 |
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PIDS |
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Can the Philippine Auto Industry Survive Smuggling?
March 2013 |
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PIDS |
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Where Are the Poor Employed? Profiling the Working Poor,
Februrary 2013 |
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PIDS |
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Community-based Approaches Toward Upgrading of Informal
Settlements: Alternative Strategies and Recommendations
for Policymaking, February 2013 |
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PIDS |
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Enhanced K to 12 Basic Education Program: Opportunities
and Challenges, December 2012 |
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PIDS |
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Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the Philippines: Is
It Reaching the Extremely Poor? December 2012 |
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PIDS |
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Managing the ASEAN Economic Integration Process in the
Philippines: An Assessment of Progress in Trade
Liberalization and Facilitation, December 2012 |
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PIDS |
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The Philippine Economy in 2012 and Prospects for 2013,
Jan-March 2013 |
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PIDS |
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Education for All: Addressing Problems in Primary
Schooling, November-December 2012 |
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PIDS |
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Pursuing the Twin Objectives of Economic Integration and
Social Inclusion, September-October 2012 |
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PIDS |
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Rice Self-sufficiency = No Rice Imports: Is It really
Feasible? July-August 2012 |
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PIDS |
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Reading between the Poverty Lines: Revisions in the
Official Poverty Thresholds, May-June 2012 |
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PIDS |
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May,
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Creating an Association of Southeast Asian Nations Payment
System: Policy and Regulatory Issues, May 2013.
ASEAN is expected to benefit from the significant growth in the
Asia-Pacific payments market. Enabling the scale and scope of
payments would in turn increase economic activity. This would
also require national payment systems to be regionalized and
operate with cross-border and multi-currency capabilities. As
existing regional payment arrangements have illustrated how they
can be successfully established, ASEAN can itself leverage on
its current cooperative forums in creating a more regionalized
payment system. This paper assesses the challenges ASEAN faces
in doing so. |
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ADB |
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Basic Statistics 2013 covers the
indicators of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) such as the
proportion of population living below $1.25 (PPP) a day, infant
mortality rate, carbon dioxide emissions. It also contains data
on basic economic indicators such as the gross domestic product
(GDP), inflation rate, trade balance, external debt, fiscal
balance, and others. |
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ADB |
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Flood Risk Management: A Strategic Approach, Published 2013
focuses on strategic flood risk management policy and practice,
and provides an overview of
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historical developments and emerging trends in flood
management;
- the
purpose and characteristics of modern flood risk management;
- the
goals, objectives and outcomes sought;
- the
ongoing challenges in developing and implementing flood risk
management in practice together with some of the common
pitfalls and misconceptions; and
- a summary
of some specific tools and techniques and how they support
good decision making.
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ADB |
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Development Effectiveness Review: 2012 Report, Published 2013.
The 2012 Development Effectiveness Review (DEfR) is the sixth
annual corporate performance report of the Asian Development
Bank (ADB). The review found that the development effectiveness
review process introduced in 2008 has successfully propagated a
results culture across ADB. This has led to improved performance
in most areas of the results framework measuring ADB’s
operational and organizational effectiveness. As a result, ADB
has been able to meet an increasing proportion of its targets.
It has also expanded ADB’s contributions to development outcomes
in the region. |
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ADB |
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Japan's
Disaster Relief Diplomacy: Fostering Military Cooperation in
Asia, May 2013. Hideshi Futori, recent
Japan Studies Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center in
Washington, explains that "First, the realm of HA/DR is a rare
opportunity for Japan to actively engage in military cooperation
with China." |
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EWC |
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Conflict
Prevention Urgent for the Senkaku Conundrum, May 2013.
Masako Ikegami, Professor of Political Science at Stockholm
University, explains that "Future peace and prosperity in East
Asia rests upon a peaceful and constructive resolution to the
Senkaku conundrum by overcoming the negative legacy of war and
imperialism in Asia." |
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EWC |
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Can a Growing
Servces Sector Renew Asia's Economic Growth? April 2013.
To continue Asia's economic growth the focus for expansion and
improvement must move from export manufacturing to the services
sector--primarily to cross-border trade in such modern services
as finance, information and communication, and professional
business services. As the Asian services-sector economies have
historically been dominated by personal services rather than by
more information-intensive services, serious concerns exist
about their ability to rapidly and successfully grow these
modern services... |
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EWC |
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The Middle-Income Trap: Issues for Members of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations, May 2013. This
paper attempts to study these issues by building an analytical
framework based on the factors that determine each development
stage of an economy, and by comparing the current situation of
four ASEAN middle-income countries with the experience of the
Republic of Korea, a country that managed to overcome the
middle-income trap and reach the high-income level in the late
1990s. |
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ADB |
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How Low-Carbon Green Growth Can Reduce Inequalities, May 2013.
Half of the world's population—3 billion people—lives below the
poverty line, and Asia has the largest share. In pursuit of
sustainable economic development and poverty alleviation, there
is great potential among low-income households for green
consumption, production, innovation, and entrepreneurial
activity. This paper shows how an inclusive green growth model
can uplift the poor through entrepreneurship and fiscal policy
reforms. |
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ADB |
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Strengthening Health Security - APEC Symposium on Strategies to
Control and Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance, May 2013.
This report presents the findings at the APEC symposium on
strategies to control and prevent antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
in the Asia Pacific region. The key objective of the APEC
symposium was to discuss and explore future strategies to
control and prevent AMR in the Asia Pacific region. |
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APEC |
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Expanding the Information Technology Agreement, May 2013. This
policy brief will argue for an expanded Information Technology
agreement (ITA) and show how APEC can play a leading role in
that process... |
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APEC |
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Transport, Energy and Environmental Benefits of Intermodal
Freight Strategies Final Report, April 2013.
The present report is designed to demonstrate the fuel saving
and emission reduction benefits of the increased use of
intermodal freight transportation in urban settings and
addresses the questions raised by the APEC Working Groups
regarding “Transport, Energy and Environmental Benefits of
Intermodal Freight Strategies.” |
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APEC |
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Transport, Energy and Environmental Benefits of Transit Oriented
Development Strategies Final Report, April 2013.
The report was designed to: a) Assess the “energy, transport and
environmental benefits of transit-oriented development (TOD)
strategies”; b) Evaluate TOD “in terms of reduced oil imports,
pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions, and reduced travel
times”; c) Encourage TOD “Through a better understanding of
these benefits, … throughout the APEC region”; d) Provide case
studies of TOD to demonstrate these concepts |
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APEC |
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Inflation, its Volatility and the Inflation-Growth Tradeoff in
India, 2013 |
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ASARC |
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Estimating India's Fiscal Reaction Function, 2013 |
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ASARC |
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Corporate Retail Outlets are Blessings in Disguise for
Unorganized Retail Outlets: An Empirical Analysis in the Indian
Context, 2013 |
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ASARC |
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The
Role of Bribes in Rural Governance: The Case of India, 2013 |
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ASARC |
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Determinants and Persistence of benefits from the National Rural
Employment Guarantee Scheme: Panel Data Analysis for Rajasthan,
India, 2013 |
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ASARC |
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Elderly's Health Shocks and Household's Ex-ante Poverty in
India, 2013 |
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ASARC |
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Monetary
Authority of Singapore: Macroeconomic Review, Volume XII, Issue
1, April 2013 (Full
Report,
Presentation Slides for Briefing):
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MAS |
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Technological Change, Skill Demand, and Wage Inequality in
Indonesia, March 2013. This paper
examines the empirical implications of technological changes for
skill demand and wage inequality in Indonesia. According to the
National Labor Force Survey of Indonesia, the share of educated
workers and wage skill premium increased significantly over
2003–2009 for overall industry and across the region. An
analysis based on demand–supply framework suggests that demand
shifts favoring skilled workers during the period... |
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ADB |
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Federal Transfers and Fiscal Discipline in India: An Empirical
Evaluation, March 2013. This paper
examines the relationship between federal transfers and fiscal
deficits in India. The system of federal transfers has been
criticized on the grounds that it distorts the incentives for
states to promote fiscal discipline... |
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ADB |
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Complexity, Specialization, and Growth, March 2013.
This paper analyzes the role of complexity in production on the
level of output and on its rate of growth... |
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ADB |
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Regional Cooperation and Integration in a Changing World,
Published 2013. This monograph attempts
to address some of the financial and trade aspects of
integration in Asia. It has two self-contained sections. Section
1 focuses on the costs and benefits of regional integration in
general, and concludes with some pointers specific to financial
integration. Section 2 deals with trade integration and related
policy challenges. The analysis begs many questions. Some—but
not all—can be answered by the suggestions offered in the two
sections... |
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ADB |
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RCI Diogest: Monitoring Asian Regional Cooperation and
Intergration, Volume 3, Issue 1, December 2012-January 2013.
The RCI Digest follows the progress of initiatives under ADB’s
four pillars of regional cooperation and integration (RCI): (i)
cross.border infrastructure, (ii) trade and investment, (iii)
money and finance, and (iv) regional public goods... |
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Disaster Risk Management in Asia and the Pacific: Issues Paper,
April 2013. This issues paper aims to
help ADB DMC governments integrate Disaster Risk Management into
their national developmental strategies and examine how emerging
economies of Asia can cooperate to improve their disaster risk
management practices, in view of increasing risks of compound
disasters, climate change, and expanding production networks... |
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ADB |
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Development Asia: Can Asia Beat the Menace of Rising Inequality?
April 2013. In this issue, Development
Asia examines Asia’s widening inequality from many different
perspectives. It looks at the role of globalization in producing
inequality, and considers the disputed relationship between
inequality and economic growth... |
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ADB |
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Beyond Factory Asia: Fuelling Growth in a Changing World,
Published 2013. How can regional
economies move beyond Factory Asia? What strategies can Asian
economies pursue to meet these challenges? This monograph will
examine a range of policy, institutional, legal, and regulatory
issues relating to reforms that will drive Asia’s economic and
social transformation in its quest for a new Factory Asia
model... |
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ADB |
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ADB Annual Report
2012:
Main Report,
Financial Report.
In 2012, the
Board of Directors continued to oversee the implementation of
Strategy 2020—ADB’s paramount (Status as of 31 December 2012)
View infographic in higher resolution. strategic framework to
guide all its operations to 2020—as it deliberated and took
decisions to improve ADB’s responsiveness, development
effectiveness, and accountability. ADB’s operations in 2012
totaled $21.57 billion. Of this amount, $13.30 billion was
financed by ADB and Special Funds, and $8.27 billion by
cofinancing partners. Meanwhile, ADB’s cofinancing operations
continue to extend the impact of our development assistance... |
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ADB |
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America's Unchecked Security State: Part II: The
Continuity of COG Detention Planning, 1948-2001, April
2013 |
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APJ |
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America's Unchecked Security State: Part I: The Toxic
Legacy of J. Edgar Hoover’s Illegal Powers, April 2013 |
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APJ |
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Yet
Another Lost Decade? Whither Japan's North Korea Policy
under Abe Shinzō, April 2013 |
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APJ |
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Japan
Under Neonationalist, Neoliberal Rule: Moving Toward an
Abyss? April 2013 |
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APJ |
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Why Now
is a Good Time for Economic Engagement of North Korea,
April 2013 |
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APJ |
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Ikeda
Manabu, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, and
Disaster/Nuclear Art in Japan, April 2013 |
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APJ |
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Uncomfortable Questions in the Wake of Nuclear Accidents
at Fukushima and Chernobyl, April 2013 |
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APJ |
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Pakistan's
Nuclear Labyrinth and the Future of Democratization, April 2013.
Yogesh Joshi, Ph.D Candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and
Frank O'Donnell, Ph.D Candidate at King's College London,
explain that "The paradox for the international community is
that a strong military ensures the safety of Pakistan's nuclear
arsenal, even when that same force is the biggest obstacle to a
lasting democracy." |
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EWC |
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The Ongoing
Talibanization of Karachi, April 2013.
Alok Bansal, Executive Director of the South Asian Institute for
Strategic Affairs in New Delhi, explains that "The window of
opportunity for the Pakistani state to contain the growing
influence of the TTP in Karachi is rapidly declining." |
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EWC |
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Dignity in
International Relations, April 2013.
David I. Steinberg, Distinguished Professor of Asian Studies,
School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, writes that
"The need for dignity in international negotiations is an
essential component for dealing with unpleasant or enemy regimes
if one is to attain some of the objectives of such
negotiations." |
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EWC |
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Why China's
Return to the Sea May Not Be All Bad, April 2013.
Christian Le Mière, Senior Fellow for Naval Forces and Maritime
Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies,
explains that "Beijing has avoided major conflict for nearly 35
years, and seems set to continue to do so for the foreseeable
future." |
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EWC |
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How Mobile
Is the Footloose Industry? The Case of the Notebook PC Industry
in China, Published 2013. This paper
reexamines the concept of the "footloose industry" from the
perspective of global production networks (GPNs). Among the
players in these GPNs, contract manufacturers are believed to be
the most footloose, as they are the most sensitive to labor
costs. China's notebook personal computer industry is used to
illustrate the fact that unique labor institutions in the
coastal areas of China have permanently changed the structures
of GPNs in that industry, including power relations and
production organizations. These changes have made the relocation
of manufacturing activities more difficult, and have also given
contract manufacturing more power regarding relocation
decisions. |
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EWC |
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Education
in Pacific Island States: Reflections on the Failure of 'Grand
Remedies', Published 2013. Victor Levine
asks a fundamental question of increasing importance to a
globalizing region: How can Pacific Island states provide decent
public education to their children? Based on broad international
experience, he examines the evidence regarding what does and
does not work in public education. While the literature suggests
numerous instances of declining quality in Pacific
public-education systems, Levine finds some basis for optimism
about what is possible... |
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EWC |
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Strengthening the Core of the G20: Clearer Objectives, Better
Communication, Greater Transparency and Accountability, April 2013.
To be the premier forum for international economic cooperation, the G20
will need to strengthen such core features as clarity of objectives,
communication, transparency and accountability. This Analysis outlines
what Australia can do in all these areas when it chairs the G20 in 2014... |
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Lowy |
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India-Australia Poll 2013, April 2013. The
India-Australia Poll is a groundbreaking survey of Indian public
attitudes towards Australia, with some surprising results. It reveals
broadly positive views towards Australia, but lingering concerns about
student safety... |
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Lowy |
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Football Diplomacy Redux: the 2015 Asian Cup and Australia's Engagement
with Asia, March 2013. In 2015 Australia will
host the Asian Football Confederation’s Asian Cup, bringing together the
top 16 national teams in Asia. The tournament will provide opportunities
for government, business and community groups to strengthen their
engagement with Asia. In order to understand and leverage those
opportunities, the Lowy Institute and the Asian Cup Local Organising
Committee held a day-long conference on 23 November 2012, bringing
together senior government, business, tourism, sport and ... |
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Lowy |
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The American Chamber of Commerce in
the People's Republic of China: White Paper 2013,
American Business in China (Bilingual,
Full Report)
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AmCham |
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The 2030 Architecture of Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Free Trade Agreements, April 2013. This
paper investigates and analyzes the present status, potential,
and prospects of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
free trade agreements (FTAs). The move towards the ASEAN
Economic Community by 2015 and the attempts to broaden FTAs in
East Asia present major challenges to ASEAN. Ultimately, it is
desirable for ASEAN to draw a clear picture of how the
architecture of ASEAN FTAs in 2030 can be given shape. |
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ADB |
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Lessons from the European Spaghetti Bowl, April 2013.
European economic integration fascinates and inspires for the
way it brought peace to a continent torn by violent and
long-standing rivalries. The lessons from Europe, however,
cannot be applied directly as the degree of the European Union's
supranationality is unthinkable elsewhere. This paper discusses
how Europe overcame the specific problem of overlapping free
trade agreements (FTAs) with the Pan-European Cumulation System
which instituted common rules of origin, regional cumulation of
value, and completed the full matrix of bilateral FTAs. After
this, Europe had what can be thought of as a "customs union" for
rules of origin. |
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ADB |
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Knowledge Management Directions and Action Plan (2013–2015):
Supporting “Finance ++” at the Asian Development Bank, Published
2013. Applying collective know-how to
solve complex development challenges is key for achieving
lasting development results more quickly. ADB's long-term
strategic framework, Strategy 2020, identifies “knowledge
solutions” as a driver of change for stimulating growth and
synergizing broader assistance in its operations. ADB's goal is
to turn them into a comparative advantage for the institution to
benefit of Developing Member Countries (DMCs)... |
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ADB |
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APEC Economic Trends Analysis, April 2013.
The PSU’s APEC Economic Trends Analysis provides an overview on
emerging trends underlying the region’s economic prospects by
providing in-depth analysis on recent macroeconomic and
financial developments in the APEC region. |
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APEC |
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Key Trends and Developments relating to Trade and Investment
Measures and their Impact on the APEC Region, April 2013.
This report was presented at the Ministers Responsible for Trade
Meeting in Surabaya, Indonesia in April 2013. It highlights that
there was a sharp deceleration in trade growth as well as a
reduction in FDI inflows in 2012, the result of a setback to the
global economic recovery that occurred last year... |
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APEC |
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2012 PSU Annual Report, April 2013. The
annual report is a summary of the APEC Policy Support Unit’s
operations and activities for the calendar year. It includes an
overview of projects and activities undertaken in 2012, a list
of completed and current projects, audited financial statements,
and information about the PSU. |
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APEC |
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IFAP Implementation in Facilitating Investment for the Asia
Pacific Region, March 2013. The main
objectives of this study are to: (i) describe APEC Investment
Facilitation Action Plan (IFAP) implementation progress; and
(ii) analyse the pattern and trends of foreign investment flows
in the APEC region. |
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APEC |
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The
2013 Interim Assessment for Supply Chain Connectivity Framework
Action Plan, March 2013. This report
presents the results of the interim assessment on APEC’s Supply
Chain Connectivity Framework Action Plan against the target of a
10% improvement in supply chain performance in terms of time,
costs and uncertainty by 2015... |
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APEC |
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Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino: Why "Deepening" Matters in
Achieving Its Human Capital Objectives, February 2013 |
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PIDS |
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Why a New Industrial Policy for the Philippines Is
Critical, January 2013 |
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PIDS |
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How Critical Is Transport and Logistics Infrastructure
to Interregional Trade? The Case of High-value Fruits
and Vegetables in Mindanao, December 2012 |
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PIDS |
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The Philippines and East Asia: Building on Partnerships
to Take Part in the Region's Dynamism, December 2012 |
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PIDS |
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Toward Deepening East Asian Integration: How Convergent
Are the Rules of Origin in the ASEAN+1 Free Trade
Agreements, December 2012 |
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PIDS |
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Perceptions and Laws on Unfair Trade Practices in the
Philippines, December 2012 |
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PIDS |
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The Urgent Need to Increase Baseload Generating Capacity
in Mindanao, November 2012 |
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PIDS |
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Should the Philippines Tariffy its Quantitative
Restriction on Rice? October 2012 |
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PIDS |
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Typhoons, Floods, and Droughts: Regional Occurrence and
Value of Damages to Rice Farming in the Philippines,
September 2012 |
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PIDS |
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Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs,
Volume 12 No.
1 Summer 2012:
Greater China
Japan
Korea
Book Reviews |
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SJEAA |
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April,
2013 |
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Asian Development Outlook 2013: Asia's
Energy Challenge
(Highlights,
Full
Report) estimates that regional economic growth in the Asia
Pacific region will pick up to 6.6% in 2013 and reach 6.7% in
2014. This is a distinct improvement on 2012, when growth stood
at just over 6%. Consumer prices are expected to rise by 4.0% in
2013 and 4.2% in 2014, up from 3.7% last year...
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Part 1:
Asia Builds Momentum Amid Global Doldrums
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Part 2:
Asia's Energy Challenge
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Part 3: Economic
Trends and Prospects in Developing
Asia:
Afghanistan,
Armenia,
Azerbaijan,
Bangladesh,
Bhutan,
Brunei Darussalam,
Cambodia,
China,
Fiji,
Georgia,
Hong
Kong, India,
Indonesia,
Kazakhstan,
Republic
of Korea,
Kyrgyz Republic,
Lao,
Malaysia,
Maldives,
Mongolia,
Myanmar,
Nepal,
North
Pacific Economies,
Pakistan,
Papua New Guinea,
Philippines,
Singapore,
Small
Island Economies,
Solomon Islands,
South
Pacific Economies,
Sri Lanka,
Taipei,China,
Tajikistan,
Thailand,
Timor-Leste,
Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan,
and
Viet Nam.
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ADB |
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Association of Southeast Asian Nations, People's Republic of
China, and India Growth and the Rest of the World: The Role of
Trade, April 2013. This paper explores
the impact of past and future growth in the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People's Republic of China
(PRC), and India—the ACI countries—on aggregate welfare,
relative wages, and global emissions in the rest of the world.
It outlines several analytical frameworks, considers effects
over the past decade and, based on consensus forecasts, the
implications of that growth for the rest of the world in the
decades to come. |
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ADB |
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International Price Dispersion and Market Segmentation in Japan
and the United States: Theory and Empirics, April 2013.
This paper focuses on the pricing behavior of Japanese and
United States firms selling their identical products in New York
City, Chicago, Osaka, and Tokyo. The authors utilize some simple
models of international price dispersion and market segmentation
that generate predictions about testable prices. The dataset,
which consists of prices of identical products in the Japanese
and American cities, was collected and accepted by both
governments. Using this data, versions of international price
dispersion theories are tested and some empirical evidence to
support the view that simple international price dispersion
models can partly explain the observed prices is found. |
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ADB |
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Hong
Kong: High Frequency Macroeconomic Forecasts Current
Quarter Model: 2013Q2, April 2013.
Real GDP in 13Q1 is
estimated to increase by 3.9% when compared with the
same period last year. This is an upward revision of our
previous forecast of 2.9% growth released in January 3,
2013, reflecting a strong pickup in domestic demand. In
13Q2, real GDP growth is forecast to rise by 5.3% when
compared with the same period last year... |
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HKU |
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America's
Voluntary Standards System: A 'Best Practice' Model for Asian
Innovation Policies? Published 2013. This
study reviews the historical roots of the American system,
examines its defining characteristics, and highlights its
strengths and weaknesses. A tradition of decentralized local
self-government has given voice to diverse stakeholders in
innovation. However, a lack of effective coordination of
multiple stakeholder strategies constrains effective and open
standardization processes. Asian countries seeking to improve
their standards systems should study the strengths and
weaknesses of the American system. Attempts to replicate the US
standards system will face clear limitations--persistent
differences in Asia's economic institutions, levels of
development, and growth models are bound to limit convergence to
a US-style market-led voluntary standards system. |
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EWC |
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Japan's
Crucial Role in Afghanistan, April 2013.
Victoria Tuke, Visiting Fellow at the Tokyo Foundation, explains
why "The centrality of the US-Japan alliance to Japan is an
important consideration regarding Afghanistan, but Japan's
interests are broader than solely the alliance." |
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EWC |
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Marine & Ocean Energy Development: An Introduction for
Practitioners in APEC Economies, March 2013.
This publication is a summary of presentations made at the
project final conference (October 16-17, 2012 Vladivostok,
Russia) and also draws on various most influential reports on
marine power. We designed it to raise awareness among the policy
makers and energy practitioners in APEC economies of the tidal
power resource and opportunities. A wider audience of interested
officials and businesses in APEC economies may also benefit from
this concise non-technical reading. |
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APEC |
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Research Outcomes: Summary of Research Projects 2012, Published
2013. |
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APEC |
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Characteristics of Chinese Military Culture: A Historical
Perspective, April 2013.
Military culture influences military thinking and military
strategy. Today, the armed forces of the major powers have
the goal of defending their national interests and
contributing to world peace. For geographical and historical
reasons, Chinese military culture developed its own unique
orientation. Just as culture is what makes groups different
from each another and distinguishes man from the animals, so
too is military culture to what distinguishes the armed
forces from other social groups. Similarly, Chinese military
culture makes China’s armed forces different to those of
other countries. These cultural differences express
themselves in the characteristics of various countries’
armed forces. Studying Chinese military culture is thus a
path toward a better understanding of the characteristics of
the Chinese armed forces. |
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ISDP |
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Historical Changes in Relations Between China and
Neighboring Countries (1949 - 2012), March 2013.
The concept of the ‘neighborhood’ (zhoubian) has a prominent
place in China’s thinking about its foreign policy, as good
relations with neighboring countries have great significance
for China’s development. There have been three distinct
phases in China’s relations with neighboring countries since
the foundation of the People’s Republic of China, in each of
which the Chinese leadership has proposed different
diplomatic policies towards neighboring countries, according
to the domestic and international situations. However, with
the present rapid economic development of China, there have
been some noticeable changes that will present challenges to
China’s dealings with neighboring countries. This
presentation will provide perspectives on these questions. |
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ISDP |
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The Road to ASEAN Financial Integration: A Combined Study on
Assessing the Financial Landscape and Formulating Milestones for
Monetary and Financial Integration in ASEAN, Published 2013.
This paper provides a summary assessment of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on the state of financial
integration in the region, with inputs from the Asian
Development Bank regional technical assistance project Combined
Studies on Assessing the Financial Landscape and Formulating
Milestones for Monetary and Financial Integration in ASEAN. |
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ADB |
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Can Global Value Chains Effectively Serve Regional Economic
Development in Asia? March 2013.
Regional economic integration through logistics, information
network and connectivity improvement can increase the .virtual
size‘ of an economy as trade with neighboring countries
increases. This leads to substantial benefits from scale,
network, coordination and agglomeration economies. As is shown,
especially in small economies and LDCs, regional economic
integration induces the necessary rebalancing needed for
integration of the regional portions of Global Value Chains (GVCs)
to the global portions of GVCs. This paper demonstrates this
with South Asian case studies in GVC development and with the
related mapping methodology... |
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ADB |
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Preferential and Non-Preferential Approaches to Trade
Liberalization in East Asia: What Differences Do Utilization
Rates and Reciprocity Make? March 2013.
Previous studies on the impacts of free trade agreements (FTAs)
in East Asia have assumed full utilization of preferences. The
evidence suggests that this assumption is seriously in error,
with the estimated uptake particularly low in East Asia. In this
paper, we assume a more realistic utilization rate in estimating
impacts. We find that actual utilization rates significantly
diminish the benefits from preferential liberalization, but in a
non-linear way... |
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ADB |
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Cross-Regional Comparison of Trade Integration: The Case of
Services, March 2013.
In this paper, we will examine the level of services trade
integration in Asia in comparison with Europe and North America.
The main empirical findings of this paper are that (i) the
regional bias of services trade in Asia is as high or higher
than in Europe and North America; (ii) in Asia, the regional
bias of services trade is higher than that of goods trade, which
is in sharp contrast to Europe and North America, where the
regional bias of goods trade is higher than that of services
trade; and (iii) while Asia’s regional bias of goods trade shows
a declining trend, that of services trade remains high, although
in the future its decline is expected... |
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ADB |
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Asian Development Review, Vol.
30,
No. 1, 2013 (Full
Report):
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ADB |
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Fulfilling the Promises of South Asian Integration: A Gravity
Estimation, April 2013.
This paper examines the determinants and trade effects of the
South Asian Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA) using
empirical methods. An empirical specification of the gravity
model is developed to analyze the determinants of trade flows
for the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) countries. The need
for maintaining the primacy of economic integration in the
region's growth and development processes is highlighted... |
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ADB |
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Deepening Association of Southeast Asian Nations' Financial
Markets, March 2013. This paper discusses
the financial landscape of the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN), a region engaged in building an economic
community (a "single market and production base") by 2015. In
particular, it reviews where ASEAN's financial markets and
institutions now stand and suggests possible ways in which they
might be developed further to meet the aspirations of the
region. |
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ADB |
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Consular Conundrum: The Rising Demands and Diminishing Means for
Assisting Australians Overseas, March 2013. The
demands on Australia’s consular service are growing. Huge numbers of
Australians are travelling overseas every year, and the expectations of
what the Australian government can or should do for them when they find
themselves in distress are rising, driven by media and public pressure
and, on occasion, by political expediency. This comes at a time when the
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is under strain from decades of
under-resourcing and political neglect. As a result, DFAT struggles to
balance consular work with other key priorities... |
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Lowy |
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The United
States: The Hidden Actor in the Senkaku Islands, April 2013.
Akira Kato, Visiting Scholar at the East-West Center in
Washington, explains that "It is a little known fact that the
privately-owned Kuba Island and Japanese state-owned Taisho
Island, both part of the Senkaku Islands, are under the
exclusive control of the US military." |
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EWC |
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South Korea:
Give Nukes a Chance, March 2013. Denny
Roy, Senior Research Fellow at the East-West Center, argues that
"An ROK nuclear weapons capability would impose a meaningful
penalty on the DPRK for its nuclear weapons program." |
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EWC |
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How Useful Is an Asian Currency Unit (ACU) Index for
Surveillance in East Asia? March 2013.
An Asian Currency Unit (ACU) index is constructed using an
alternative procedure which minimizes a basket or portfolio of
assets expressed in terms of national currencies. Using this
estimated ACU index and an ACU Deviation Indicator, the main
finding of this study based on the current trajectory of East
Asian currencies relative to this regional ACU average or
benchmark is that there is a formation of two contrasting groups
of countries in the region—one a group of strong currencies and
the other a group of weak currencies... |
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ADB |
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Pacific Economic Monitor, March 2013.
This edition of the Pacific Economic Monitor discusses 2013 and
2014 GDP growth and inflation projections for ADB's Pacific
developing member countries. The theme of the policy briefs
included in this issue is energy in the Pacific. Findings:
Economic growth in the Pacific moderated to 7.3% in 2012, from a
post-crisis high of 8.3% recorded in the previous year. This
regional trend was driven primarily by the performance of the
region's larger, natural resource–extracting, economies. Growth
is seen to moderate further in 2013, before picking up in 2014. |
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ADB |
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On
the Determinants of Scholastic Performance in Five Asian
Countries, March 2013.
This paper takes an efficiency analysis perspective to analyze,
on the basis of the data of the 2009 Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development Program for International Student
Assessment (PISA) survey, the determinants of scholastic
performance in five Asian countries (Azerbaijan, Indonesia,
Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Thailand)... |
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ADB |
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A
Practical Approach to International Monetary System Reform:
Building Settlement Infrastructure for Regional Currencies,
March 2013.
The global financial crisis has once again stimulated
discussions to reform the international financial architecture.
This paper proposes that establishment of regional settlement
currencies can contribute positively to this reform agenda. |
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ADB |
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Cost Recoverable Tariffs to Increase Access to Basic Services
among Poor Households, March 2013.
A contingent valuation survey from the Water Supply and
Sanitation Project of the Asian Development Bank in Cebu,
Philippines is used to show that tariff structures with a low
one-time connection price and price differentiates based on
wealth measures can result in a five-fold increase in the
take-up of water services by poor households over the base
tariff structure. |
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ADB |
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Firm Investment, Liquidity, and Bank Health: A Panel Study of
Asian Firms in the 2000s, February 2013.
This study examines the effects of a deterioration in bank
health on the cash flow sensitivity of investment and cash
holdings of firms. |
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ADB |
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Capital Controls: A Pragmatic Proposal, February 2013.
To complement the IMF’s new framework and make it easier to
operationalize, this paper proposes a pragmatic approach to the
use of capital controls which leverages the G20 indicative
guidelines in measuring excessive imbalances in order to
simplify the IMF’s guidelines on the use of capital controls. |
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ADB |
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Operationalizing Experience: Donor Approaches to Service
Delivery in Fragile States, February 2013.
This study explores the different approaches to service delivery
in fragile states by surveying donors' own evaluations of their
existing fragile states policies. |
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ADB |
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APEC Human Capital Policies for Green Growth and Employment,
March 2013. The purpose of this report is
to summarize the HRDWG’s Human Capital Policies for Green Growth
and Employment Project. This report is divided into three
sections: (1) findings from an APEC survey conducted focused on
Human Capital Policies and Practices for Green Growth and
Employment, (2) a summary and overview of the APEC symposium
that took place in Washington, DC on March 20-21, 2012,
highlighting implications for developing APEC economies, and (3)
appendices. |
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APEC |
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Potential Contribution of Small Pelagic Fish to Food Security
within the Asia-Pacific Region, February 2013.
This final report summarizes the study of the potential supply
and use of small pelagic fish to tackle food security. The
project took Indonesia and the Philippines, top producers of
small pelagic fish in the region, as case study economies with
Peru as the leading economy of the project. |
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APEC |
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International Seminar on Food Trade Safety to Prevent Avian
Influenza, January 2013.
This report provides an overall summary and the presentation
papers presented the above seminar. The seminar emphasized some
key points that attracting concerns of the government officials,
the industries, the traders and the private sectors particularly
in such aspects as the Avian Influenza and its sever impact, the
measures taken for prevention and control, the Human Highly
Pathogenic Avian Influenza containment, food safety management
measures, and combat of illegal trade etc. |
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APEC |
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Sustainable Land Management to Enhance Food Production of APEC
Members, January 2013.
The proceedings of the workshop should be particularly valuable
in the context of APEC food security. The event brought together
participants from public and private sectors working on
sustainable land management related issues and allowed them to
share their experiences and knowledge on its strategies,
technologies and practices. The workshop outputs were expected
to help find options and provide guidance in assessing present
and future challenges to food security, to enhance our
understansing on the causes of unsustainable food production,
and address possible losses across entire food chain in each
economy. |
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APEC |
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Final Report for APEC Low Carbon Model Town Project Phase 2,
Feasibility Study for Samui Island, Thailand, November 2012.
This report provides information of the Low Carbon Model Town
Project (LCMT) Phase 2 in SAMUI Island low carbon town
development project in Surat Thani province. The main purposes
of LCMT Initiatives are to plan, develop and implement the
concrete roadmap in order to lower the carbon emission from the
selected town while the natural resources are effectively
utilized and the economic growth still remains. |
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