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Beijing
Calculates Cross-Strait Relations: Waiting for the Melon to
Drop, December 2013. Wen-Ti Sung, Asia
Studies Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington,
explains that "In Beijing, a favorable combination of
institutional integration, political consolidation, and
leadership expertise is enabling China's leaders to manage
cross-strait relations with confidence and patience." |
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EWC |
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Rebalancing
the US Army Towards Asia, December 2013.
Paul Lushenko,
Captain in the US Army, explains that "Unfortunately, poor
messaging has obscured understanding of how the US Army intends
to achieve its security goals in Asia which are primarily to
avoid major armed conflict." |
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EWC |
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The Rise of
China: What To Watch For, December 2013.
Denny Roy, Senior
Research Fellow at the East-West Center, explains that
"Particularly in recent years Beijing has shown an inability or
unwillingness to recognize that, in the eyes of some neighbors,
Chinese 'defense' looks like Chinese assertiveness." |
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EWC |
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Energy Efficient Building Workshop and Training, December 2013.
The summary findings and proceedings of the above two workshops
are complied under this report. The workshops have provided an
opportunity for the range of public, private and academic sector
stakeholders who are involved in developing an advanced building
material infrastructure in the APEC region to exchange their
views and experience on energy efficient building envelopes and
window thermal performance testing and rating of their
economies. |
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APEC |
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SMEs in the APEC Region, December 2013. APEC Policy Brief
(Issue 8, Dec 2013) |
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APEC |
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Air Traffic Management Emissions Reduction, December 2013 is
the result of a study to identify methods and estimate benefits
associated with improvements to the air traffic flow in and
around Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, between the two cities, and in
the neighboring region based on application of ATFM/CDM
procedures and systems. The study included stakeholder
discussions, site visits, and operational data analysis in order
to identify appropriate ATFM/CDM approaches that will improve
the efficiency of the focus area for the study. |
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APEC |
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Promoting Stable and Consistent Renewable Energy Supply by
Utilizing Suitable Energy Storage Systems, December 2013.
Chapter 1: Development Status of the Energy Storage Industry
Chapter 2: Energy storage applications in the new energy field
Chapter 3: Advancing Wind Farm Development with the Use of
Energy Storage
Chapter 4: Advancing the development of distributed generation
and micro grids via the application of energy storage systems
Chapter 5: Impact of the national government on the practical
economics of energy storage
Chapter 6: The active role of rational application of energy
systems in industry |
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APEC |
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Symposium on "Promoting Human Security in APEC: Development of
e-Health Systems as a Tool for Management in the Health Area of
APEC Economies", Published 2013. This summary report gives
an overview of the outcomes of the symposium held in Russia,
August 2013. The purpose of the symposium on “Promoting Human
Security in APEC: Development of e-health systems as a tool for
management in the health area of APEC’s economies” was the
exchange of best practices in the area of health care management
and the development of recommendations to be used in APEC
economies. |
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APEC |
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Report for Workshop on Application of Satellite Technologies for
Emergencies Preparedness, Management and Response in
Asia-Pacific Region, Published 2013. The report provides a
summary report and compilation of the presentations of the
workshop. The event was largely devoted to examining specific
characteristics of satellite technologies application for
different types of emergencies, discussion of international
cooperation and mechanisms of fast remote sensing data delivery
for EPMR and Crisis Management centers network development in
Asia-Pacific Region. |
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APEC |
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Establishing Low Carbon Energy Indicators for Energy Strategy
Study in APEC Low Carbon Town, November 2013. This report is
a final result of the above project. Based on the project's
objectives, it is a literature review of selected indicators
systems of the similar kind were carried out, basic features of
low carbon energy development priorities in developing APEC
economies were identified, and a set of low carbon energy
indicators system has been set up based on these findings. |
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APEC |
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Enhance Energy Utilization and Transformation Efficiency through
Comprehensive Utilization of Coal, November 2013. This
project aims to analyse the applicable scope of different
technical route, and to explore the model of promotion in large
scale to accelerate the clean and high-efficient utilization of
coal in APEC. |
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APEC |
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Workshop IV Report on Large Marine Ecosystems, November 2013.
The workshop objectives were to:
i. Report on the status and baseline assessment of the APEC
Region’s Large Marine Ecosystems in
relation to climate change,
ii. Review best practices of ecosystem assessment and management
in the APEC Region,
iii. Promote networking of APEC LMEs, and
iv. Identify the socioeconomic benefits of ecosystem-based
management. |
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APEC |
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Broadband Network Development for Green Growth, November 2013.
The main objectives of this study report are as follows: To
analyze the status of broadband network development and the
important role it plays in promoting green growth in APEC
economies, main problems and challenges the economies are facing
in promoting broadband network development for green growth; To
provide references for developing economies, to promote
technology and policy capacity building in developing economies
in a view to bridge the digital divide and achieve balanced
development in the region. |
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APEC |
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Enhancing Health Security - International campaign program to
control antimicrobial resistance in the Asia-Pacific, November
2013. The key objectives of this APEC project were to
develop campaign strategies to increase the awareness of AMR and
to promote the appropriate use of antibiotics in the
Asia-Pacific region, to develop and provide platform contents
and materials of campaign program, and to roll out the
international campaign program in APEC economies. |
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APEC |
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Distribution Transformer Survey: Estimate of Energy Savings
Potential from Mandatory Efficiency Standards Volume 1
(International), November 2013. Volume 1, the
international work report presented experience analysis,
strategic roadmaps of other APEC economies for distribution
transformers on introducing or raising mandatory MEPS. |
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APEC |
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Distribution Transformer Survey: Estimate of Energy Savings
Potential from Mandatory Efficiency Standards Volume 2 (China
Work), November 2013. Volume 2, the China work report,
carried out by the Zhong Biao Standard Technology Research
Institute Co. Ltd (ZBSTRI) presents a quantitative and
qualitative evaluation of the situation in the People’s Republic
of China. |
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APEC |
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APEC-ASEAN Harmonization of Energy Efficiency Standards for Air
Conditioners: Phase 1, November 2013. This project aims to
develop the basis for harmonizing the testing method for room
air-conditioners, starting from ASEAN members, which is then
followed by the development of a roadmap for harmonizing the
testing method for room air conditioners in APEC. this report
gives recommendations on the way forward for a similar APEC-wide
harmonization of testing standards. |
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APEC |
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APEC Workshop on Innovation Service Chain Based on Information
Technology, November 2013 aims at building innovation
service chain which will provide the means to deliver economic
and technical co-operation, reduce economic disparities among
APEC economies and create better quality and productive jobs. |
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APEC |
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Directory of Initiatives to Assist Small and Medium Enterprises
Access Global Markets, October 2013. The aim of this
directory is to provide a consolidated source of information for
policy makers on the various initiatives used in APEC member
economies to help small and medium enterprises become ready to
access global markets. |
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APEC |
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Expanding Beyond Borders: The Yen and the Yuan, December 2013.
The paper concludes by suggesting that in the next decade the
PRC yuan will become Asia's leading currency due to the PRC's
deep economic integration in the region, and that the Japanese
yen's function as an international asset and store of value can
be further enhanced if Tokyo's competitiveness as a leading
international financial center is improved. |
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ADB |
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Trade in Value Added: An East Asian Perspective, December 2013.
This paper aims to provide a non-technical explanation of the
concept of trade in value added, with particular reference to
East Asia. The trade in value added approach allows us to
redefine the relationship between countries of origin and
destination in international trade, and thereby addresses an
important issue of measuring international trade in the face of
growing production sharing among different countries. |
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ADB |
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China's Economic Statecraft: Turning Wealth into Power, November 2013.
China today is using economic statecraft more frequently, more
assertively, and in more diverse fashion than ever before. Yet fears of
Chinese economic coercion should not be overdrawn. In many cases,
China’s use of economic statecraft has been counterproductive. China’s
domestic challenges and... |
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Lowy |
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Moving beyond Ambitions? Indonesia's Military Modernisation,
November 2013. Indonesia’s impressive political and economic
development in recent years has fuelled expectations that
Australia’s much larger neighbour could join the ranks of the
world’s ten largest economies as early as 2030. While there are
good reasons to caution against such long-term predictions,
there’s a high likelihood that Indonesia will become stronger
relative to Australia. Consequently, Prime Minister Tony Abbott
has made the relationship with Indonesia a top foreign policy
priority... |
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Pacific Economic Monitor, December 2013.
Weak global growth is impacting the Pacific largely through
lower commodity prices. Subdued global demand is keeping
international commodity prices low—adversely affecting
agriculture, mineral, and forestry export revenues of some
Pacific economies... |
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ADB |
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The Economics of Climate Change in the Pacific, Published 2013.
This study identifies the effects and quantifies the costs of
these adverse outcomes to the Pacific island economies, with
details provided for selected key sectors including agriculture,
fisheries, tourism, coral reefs, and human health. It then
presents policy recommendations and action steps for the
countries to minimize or mitigate these impacts, particularly by
mainstreaming climate change in their development plans,
adopting forward-looking and risk-based approaches to climate
change, and climate-proofing both their programs and
infrastructure so that poverty eradication and sustainable
development efforts can continue regardless of the vagaries of
climate. |
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ADB |
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ASEAN
Centrality and the ASEAN-US Economic Relationship, Published
2013. This advance copy is for
circulation and discussion. A revised, final version of this
issue of Policy Studies will be published in January 2014 and
will include analysis of relevant developments at and after the
WTO Bali Ministerial meeting, December 3-6, 2013. |
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EWC |
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Vietnam in
ASEAN and ASEAN in Vietnam, November 2013. Le Dinh Tinh,
Deputy Director General at the Institute for Foreign Policy and
Strategic Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, and Hoang Hai
Long, B.A. Student at Depauw University, explain that "Vietnam
recognizes that by working with ASEAN it can have a greater
impact on regional and global events, rather than by just acting
alone." |
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EWC |
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Constructing and Multilateralizing the Regional Comprehensive
Economic Partnership: An Asian Perspective, December 2013.
In May 2013 the ASEAN+6 countries began to negotiate the
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The
objective of this paper is to analyze the feasibility of
constructing such a region-wide agreement and to examine ways to
multilateralize it. The paper first reviews free trade agreement
(FTA) developments, and discusses the characteristics and
motives of FTAs in East Asia. It then analyzes the contents of
major plurilateral FTAs in East Asia, that is ASEAN's five FTAs
each with the People's Republic of China, Japan, the Republic of
Korea, India, and Australia/New Zealand... |
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ADB |
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Disaster Risk Management at the National Level, November 2013.
National governments are supposed to play a pivotal role in
disaster risk management (DRM). This paper reviews trends and
patterns in developing governance and institutions in DRM in the
Asia and the Pacific region. The paper then derives
recommendations on how to establish disaster risk governance for
developing countries, including mainstreaming DRM into
development plans and policies. A four-pronged approach is
presented... |
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ADB |
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Disaster Risk Management at the Regional Level: The Case of Asia
and the Pacific, November 2013.
Hazards have no respect for the political boundaries of
countries, so it is essential for disaster risk management (DRM)
to be developed with a strong regional perspective. This paper
describes a wide range of regional initiatives in Asia and the
Pacific that rely on innovative solutions being adopted within a
holistic approach and that link national governments, regional
organizations, diverse sectors, and public and private bodies... |
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ADB |
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Energy Policy Options for Sustainable Development in Bangladesh,
November 2013.
Bangladesh today faces a different future than it did
decades ago when relatively abundant natural gas seemed to be
the key to prosperity. To support more evidence-based dialogue
on energy development, allocation, and pricing reform, this
study uses a computable general equilibrium model to evaluate
major energy policy issues facing Bangladesh... |
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ADB |
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Directory of Initiatives to Assist Small and Medium Enterprises
Access Global Markets, October 2013. The aim of this
directory is to provide a consolidated source of information for
policy makers on the various initiatives used in APEC member
economies to help small and medium enterprises become ready to
access global markets. |
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APEC |
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Training Course on the Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in
Crop Production, Summary Report, November 2013. This report
summarises the findings of the above training course which aimed
to provide a platform for sharing information and technological
expertise on the issues related to the application of geographic
information system (GIS) and remote sensing technology in crop
production among APEC economies and for around the globe. |
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APEC |
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Low Carbon Town and Physical Energy Storage, November 2013.
The APEC project, Low Carbon Town and Physical Energy Storage,
aims at promoting the technology combination of renewable energy
and energy storage. The energy consumption of buildings will be
reduced and the regional energy security in APEC regions will be
enhanced. This report presents the findings of Low Carbon Town
and Physical Energy Storage Project. |
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APEC |
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Emergency Response Travel Facilitation for Personnel, Goods and
Equipment in Times of Crisis, Published 2013. The objective
of this report is twofold: 1) to understand current policies and
procedures affecting the cross-border movement of emergency
personnel and disaster goods and equipment within APEC
economies, and 2) to identify best practices that can be used to
help formulate policy recommendations to effectively deal with
the international movement of emergency responders and disaster
goods and equipment. |
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APEC |
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APEC International Ship and Port Facility Security Code Good
Practices Workshop, Summary Proceedings, November 2013. This
report provides a summary of above the workshop. It aimed to
identify and share good practices in port security oversight
linked to implementing the ISPS Code by discussing the lessons
learnt from APEC’s recently-ended Port Security Visit Program
and other regional capacity building initiatives as well as
opportunities to broaden the scope of the ISPS code’s
application within port areas. |
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APEC |
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Roadmap for Development of Small Hydropower - APEC Workshop on
Small Hydro and Renewable Grid Integration, September 2013
(Published November 2013). This roadmap is part of the "APEC
Workshop on Small Hydro and Renewable Grid Integration". The
objective of the Small Hydropower Plants (SHP) Road map
development is to gather and consequently make available for
Members of APEC, relevant energy, market and policy on SHP. The
roadmap for the development of SHP in APEC economies probably
can not attempt to be a complete guide to SHP development. |
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APEC |
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APEC Workshop on Small Hydro and Renewable Grid Integration,
Final Report, September 2013 (Published November 2013). The
workshop aimed to share experiences on the issues related to
diversification of energy sources, sustainable development and
green growth and suggest road map for addressing current grid
integration problems and suggested future APEC projects. |
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APEC |
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Good Regulatory Practices for Conformity Assessment in APEC
Member Economies, October 2013. The report summarizes member
economies’ preferred approaches to and practices in conformity
assessment and the laws governing such practices, and examines
the application of international standards to conformity
assessment, cooperation among member economies, and member
economies incorporate good practices into assessment
requirements. It also describes member economies’ mandatory
assessment requirements for electrical installations,
photovoltaic products, and medical devices/pacemakers. The
report also offers observations as the basis for further
improvement in conformity assessment approaches in member
economies |
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APEC |
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Enhancing Supervision of Financial Institutions' Risk Appetite
Frameworks, Published 2013. This report summarizes the above
Training Workshop which was organised in Shanghai in May 2013 to
enhance the capacity of supervisors of banks and other financial
institutions from emerging economies within the APEC region to
ensure the implementation of sound risk appetite frameworks in
those institutions. |
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APEC |
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Trends in Trade Finance across the APEC Region, October 2013.
Trade finance is critical for cross-border trade for at least
two reasons: (1) it provides the necessary insurance against
counterparty risk; and (2) it provides working capital, which is
vital to the maintenance of a healthy cash flow especially given
the long time lag in international trade between production of
the goods and receipt of payment. This issues paper has been
prepared to analyse the trends in trade finance since the 2008
Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and to assess the current
situation... |
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APEC |
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Vulnerability to Expected Poverty in Afghanistan, 2013.
This paper measures vulnerability to expected poverty (VEP) an
ex-anti measure of well-being for Afghanistan using a single
cross-section data. We measure VEP using household consumption
expenditure during 2007/08 to predict probability of future
consumption being lower than a specific probability threshold.
Our results show that 66 per cent of Afghan population is
vulnerable to poverty in near future compared to 42 per cent of
the population who currently live under the poverty line... |
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ASARC |
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The
Determinants of Household Level Fertility in India, 2013.
Using NSS data for 1993-94 and 2004-05 this paper highlights the
impact of growing incomes, social and household decisions of
households, and regional and ethnic factors on patterns of
household level fertility in India. These have helped determine
the composition of India’s young (aged 9 to 34) today... |
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ASARC |
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Vulnerability and Responses to Risks in Rural India, 2013.
Using ARIS/REDS data set for 2006 for rural India this paper
models household vulnerability as expected utility and its
components. We conclude, first, that between the years 1999 and
2006 household vulnerability is most explained by poverty and
idiosyncratic components. Second, for risk coping strategy,
households rely heavily on informal instrument such as their own
saving, transfers or capital depletion... |
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ASARC |
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The
Impact of a Large Rice Price Increase on Welfare and Poverty in
Bangladesh, 2013.
This paper studies the effect of a sharp rice price increase on
welfare and poverty in Bangladesh. We employ household
expenditure information to estimate the welfare loss induced by
the price increase. Our findings suggest that we underestimate
the proportionate welfare loss for the rice producing households
and overestimate that of the households who do not produce
rice... |
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ASARC |
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Welfare Schemes and Social Protection in India, 2013.
This paper provides a broad overview of welfare schemes in India
and their impact on social protection during a period of high
economic growth. It summarizes India’s performance with respect
to select economic and social indicators relative to select low
and middle income countries in the Asia Pacific region. It
further overviews trends in some key select economic and social
indicators for India and discusses India’s attainment in Social
Protection relative to an index of such protection provided by
the Asian Development Bank... |
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ASARC |
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Indirect Tax Reform and Fiscal Federalism in India, 2013.
This paper underscores the substantial spatial disparities
across India and evaluates the case for putting together
(various versions) of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) and also
indicates the risks involved in the process. This paper argues
that, on balance, there is a case for an appropriately
constituted GST but that the federal transfer formula must be
sensitive to any fallout from such a move... |
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ASARC |
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Budget
Deficit and National Debt: Sharing India Experience, 2013.
India suffered humiliations in terms of balance of payments
crises in 1991 but since then it has weathered all crises, which
have hit the world economies despite the fact that subsequent
periods have seen even larger current account and fiscal
deficits. It is in this context that an analysis of fiscal and
debt problems of India is timely and assumes importance. The
paper delves upon fiscal exuberance and debt management
practices in India, the budgetary allocations, changing
structure of the deficit and debt, and the sustainability... |
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ASARC |
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New Zealand Journal of Asian
Studies, Volume 11 No. 1, June 2011
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New Zealand Journal of Asian
Studies 2009-2010 |
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NZJAS |
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2013 |
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Financial Crisis as a Catalyst of Legal Reforms: The Case of
Asia, November 2013.
This paper discusses how financial crises in emerging
Asia and Japan worked as catalysts for legal reforms. Findings
show that six Asian countries pursued significant legal and
judicial reforms following financial crises in 1997–1998, but
indicators that measure the quality of legal institutions
exhibit mixed results... |
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ADB |
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Mapping Crisis-Era Protectionism in the Asia and Pacific Region,
November 2013.
This paper provides an account of how governments in the
Asia and Pacific region have resorted in recent years to
discrimination against foreign commercial interests. As in
previous systemic economic crises, policymakers altered the mix
of discriminatory policies employed... |
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ADB |
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Myanmar-China-US: The Potential for Triangular Cooperation,
November 2013. David I. Steinberg,
Distinguished Professor of Asian Studies Emeritus, Georgetown
University, explains that ”Those in China, the United States, or
Myanmar who view the Sino-US relationship in Myanmar as a
zero-sum game are wrong.” |
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EWC |
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North Korea
and Mongolia: A New Partnership for Two Old Friends? November
2013. Charles Krusekopf, Executive
Director of the American Center for Mongolian Studies, explains
that "Political and cultural relations between Mongolia and
North Korea have generally remained close since 1948, when
Mongolia became only the second country in the world to
recognize North Korea, after the Soviet Union." |
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EWC |
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Getting to
Full Bloom in US-Malaysia Relations, November 2013.
Prashanth Parameswaran, Ph.D Candidate in International Affairs
at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, explains that "US
diplomatic attention to Malaysia is only beginning to match the
growing importance of the bilateral relationship." |
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EWC |
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China-ASEAN
Relations: Consensus on Principles, Differences on Specifics,
October 2013.
Chaobing Qiu, Research Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences (CASS), explains that "The consensus on principles such
as mutual trust, cooperation and mutual respect is highly valued
by both sides, but is still not enough to resolve the specific
differences concerning disputes in the South China Sea." |
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EWC |
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Azerbaijan and Georgia: Strategic Partnership for Stability
in a Volatile Region, September 2013.
Azerbaijan and Georgia are two neighboring countries of the
South Caucasus and strategic allies in the region. The
current de-jure map of the South Caucasus region includes
three internationally recognized states: Armenia,
Azerbaijan, and Georgia. These three countries not only
share borders, but also a long history of cohabitation as
well as many traditions. At the same time, the unresolved
armed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan is the most
serious challenge for stability and prosperity in the
region. Azerbaijan is the largest country of the South
Caucasus in terms of territory and population, followed by
Georgia and Armenia. There are also three other territories
that claim independence from Georgia and Azerbaijan. These
are Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan, and Abkhazia and South
Ossetia in Georgia... |
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ISDP |
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Fixing Australia's Incredible Defence Policy, October 2013.
Australia’s new government must make tough decisions in defence policy.
Australia’s broad national interests and the challenging strategic
environment in Indo-Pacific Asia make it essential to modernise the
Australian Defence Force. The nation’s defence capabilities remain
underfunded and its strategic edge in the region is eroding. The gap
between the nation’s interests and capabilities is widening, and it is
getting harder to meet the demands of the US alliance. Australia’s new
government needs to restore focus and funding to defence. |
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Lowy |
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Syria: How the West Can Play a Weak Hand Better, September 2013.
This Lowy Institute Analysis examines the trajectory of the Syrian
conflict in the wake of the Russian and US agreement to eliminate
Syria's chemical weapons. It argues that while that agreement, enshrined
in Security Council Resolution 2118, may remove a pernicious class of
weapons from the Syrian battlefield, it will do nothing to end the
conflict or mitigate some of its other disastrous consequences... |
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Lowy |
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Monetary
Authority of Singapore: Macroeconomic Review, Volume XII, Issue
2, October 2013 (Full
Report,
Presentation Slides for Briefing):
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MAS |
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FDI Technology Spillovers and Spatial Diffusion in the People's
Republic of China, November 2013.
This paper investigates the geographic extent of foreign
direct investment (FDI) technology spillovers and diffusion in
the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The empirical results show
that FDI presence (measured as employment share) in a locality
will generate negative and significant impacts on the
productivity performance of domestic private firms in the same
location. Nevertheless, these negative intra-regional spillovers
are found to be locally bounded... |
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ADB |
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PRC Knowledge Brief: Housing the People, October 2013.
Housing supply in the People’s Republic of China (PRC)
has increased tremendously in recent years to meet demand, but
affordability is increasingly an issue. A State Council document
mandates the provision of 36 million new affordable homes under
the 12th Five Year Plan (FYP) for 2011–2015. Home ownership in
the PRC is very high compared to other countries. As of 2010,
home ownership was almost universal. Living space increased
nine-fold in urban areas and 4.5-fold in rural areas in the past
3 decades. Effectively, two-thirds of all housing was built
after 1990. This rapid expansion in housing has been an
important contributor to GDP growth... |
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ADB |
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The Future of the World Trade Organization, November 2013.
The paper firstly identifies and assesses the key
developments in the Doha Round that have contributed to the
present stalemate. Secondly, it presents several options that
the organization could consider for defining its future work
program given the new realities of global economic engagement,
especially the emergence of global production networks. Most
importantly, the paper assesses the possibility of including new
disciplines covering areas that can help the growth of these
drivers of global economic integration. Such an initiative could
include three sets of issue: trade facilitation measures, an
equitable investment regime, and effective disciplines for
curbing non-tariff barriers. |
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ADB |
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Developing the Service Sector as an Engine of Growth for Asia,
Published 2013.
The future of the sector depends on whether the expansion
of services in Asia is driven by dynamic, open competition or by
the inflexible protection of vested interests. If competition
prevails, Asia can establish a robust, highly productive sector
generating collateral benefits for other industries and
providing services that power inclusive growth. Competition, in
particular foreign competition, worked miracles for
manufacturing in Asia as the region transformed itself into the
factory of the world. It can work new miracles for the region’s
service sectors and for the broader economy. |
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ADB |
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Working Together in Pursuit of Inclusive Business: Sharing the
Latin American and Caribbean Experience with Asia and the
Pacific, November 2013.
This publication summarizes the Inter-American
Development Bank's Opportunities for the Majority program and
provides recommendations for ADB to learn from Latin America in
the pursuit of inclusive business. It is part of the IDB–ADB
cooperation on knowledge exchange between the two regional
development banks in Latin America and the Caribbean and in Asia
and the Pacific. |
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ADB |
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Guidebook on Public–Private Partnership in Hospital Management,
Published 2013.
This publication looks at hospital management as an
important component of well-rounded health care systems. Through
PPPs in hospital management, people will have increased access
to effective, affordable, and compassionate health care
services. |
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ADB |
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Social Protection Index Brief: Social Assistance Programs in
Asia and the Pacific, October 2013.
This policy brief examines the six major subcomponents of
social assistance and draws out policy lessons based on
comprehensive data for 35 countries in the region... |
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ADB |
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Supply Chains and Credit-Market Shocks: Some Implications for
Emerging Markets, November 2013.
First, for
industries where specific investment in the input
supplier-customer relationship is large, firms are more exposed
to credit-market shocks. It is found that measures of global
credit-market shocks are negatively associated with trade
receivables, trade payables, and inventories, conditional on the
level of contract intensity in the industries where firms
operate. Second, firms in emerging markets are more vulnerable
to credit-market shocks than are firms in developed countries... |
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Development of Capital Markets in Member Countries of the South
Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, Published 2013.
The level of integration and harmonization of South Asian
capital markets is low. There are major barriers including
exchange controls, ownership restrictions, and differences in
regulatory standards and enforcement capacity. The proposals
address some of these barriers and include measures to promote
awareness, stimulate innovation, raise regulatory standards, and
champion the value of integration... |
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ADB |
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Cold Calculations: Australia's Antarctic Challenges, October
2013. This Strategic Insights looks at the range of
Australian objectives in Antarctica, the assumptions that
underpin those goals, and the options open for us to best
achieve our aims. It’s hoped that this report will inform those
responsible for formulating and implementing our Antarctic
policies... |
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ASPI |
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Keep Calm and Carry On: Reflections on the Anglosphere, October
2013. The Anglosphere—shorthand for the Anglo-American
sphere of influence—established the concept and structure of the
modern transnational community and remains salient in
contemporary international relations. For Australia, the
Anglosphere provides a framework for continued prosperity
through strong trade and political favours between those within
its fold... |
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ASPI |
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Japan-US
Alliance Adapts to the Needs of the 21st Century, October 2013.
Satoru Fuse, Political Correspondent with TV-Asahi in Tokyo,
explains that "The SCC agreement tasks Japan with two roles: to
reinforce its capability to defend its own sovereign territory,
specifically the Senkaku Islands, and to reach out and assist
Southeast Asian countries in building up their own defensive
capabilities." |
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EWC |
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The ROK-US
Alliance at Sixty: Vigorous, But Vigilance Required, October
2013.
Sukjoon Yoon, Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for
Maritime Strategy, explains that "The ROK-US security and
defense alliance has been an exemplary model of cooperation, but
the world is changing." |
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EWC |
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Turkey's
Evolving Strategic Balance with China, Japan and South Korea,
October 2013.
Selcuk Colakoglu, Visiting Research Fellow with the Near East
South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense
University in Washington, D.C., explains that "While Turkey's
relationship with Japan and South Korea will continue to
develop, it is the economic relationship with China that will
continue to the primary focus for Turkish policymakers." |
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EWC |
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Asian
Economic Integration Monitor, October 2013.
The
Asian Economic Integration Monitor is a semiannual review of
Asia’s regional economic cooperation and integration. It covers
the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank. The
October 2013 issue includes two theme chapters: i) Toward an
ASEAN Economic Community– and Beyond; and ii) World Trade
Facilitation Negotiations–Asian Perspectives. |
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ADB |
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Monetary and Fiscal Operations in the People's Republic of
China: An Alternative View of the Options Available, October
2013. This paper undertakes a comparative and firm-level
analysis of the impact of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in
Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. It finds that
firm-heterogeneity matters in RTA use. Acquiring knowledge about
RTAs, building technological capabilities, and membership of
industrial clusters affect the likelihood of RTA use at
firm-level. A lack of information about RTAs and the absence of
RTAs with major trading partners explain non-use of RTAs. Key
policy implications include the need to improve business support
for RTAs, to conclude RTAs with major trading partners, and to
create a database on preference use in RTAs. |
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ADB |
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Corporate Cash Holding in Asia, October 2013. This paper
undertakes a comparative and firm-level analysis of the impact
of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Indonesia, Malaysia and
the Philippines. It finds that firm-heterogeneity matters in RTA
use. Acquiring knowledge about RTAs, building technological
capabilities, and membership of industrial clusters affect the
likelihood of RTA use at firm-level. A lack of information about
RTAs and the absence of RTAs with major trading partners explain
non-use of RTAs. Key policy implications include the need to
improve business support for RTAs, to conclude RTAs with major
trading partners, and to create a database on preference use in
RTAs. |
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ADB |
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Regional Trade Agreements and Enterprises in Southeast Asia,
October 2013. This paper undertakes a comparative and
firm-level analysis of the impact of regional trade agreements (RTAs)
in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. It finds that
firm-heterogeneity matters in RTA use. Acquiring knowledge about
RTAs, building technological capabilities, and membership of
industrial clusters affect the likelihood of RTA use at
firm-level. A lack of information about RTAs and the absence of
RTAs with major trading partners explain non-use of RTAs. Key
policy implications include the need to improve business support
for RTAs, to conclude RTAs with major trading partners, and to
create a database on preference use in RTAs. |
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ADB |
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Learning by Exporting: Evidence from India, August 2013. It
examines whether productivity growth among Indian exporters is
higher than that of non-exporters... |
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The Financial Role of East Asian Economies in Global Imbalances:
An Econometric Assessment of Developments after the Global
Financial Crisis August 2013. The objective of this paper is
to empirically assess how global imbalances have evolved since
the global financial crisis of 2008/9. It examines how the
security investment positions of major East Asian economies in
United States financial markets - equities, bonds, and bank
lending - changed after the crisis. |
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ADB |
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What is Economic Corridor Development and What Can It Achieve in
Asia's Subregions? August 2013. Economic corridors connect
economic agents along a defined geography. They provide
important connections between economic nodes or hubs that are
usually centered in urban landscapes. They do not stand alone,
as their role in regional economic development can be
comprehended only in terms of the network effects that they
induce... |
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ADB |
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Impact of Eurozone Financial Shocks on Southeast Asian
Economies, August 2013. Five years after the Global
Financial Crisis, the economies of the United States (US) and
the eurozone continue to struggle. How will Southeast Asian
economies be affected should there be a further deterioration in
conditions in the eurozone? In this paper, we present estimates
using a Global Vector Autoregression model of the direct impacts
in Southeast Asia of a further shock to the eurozone... |
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ADB |
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The Role of International Trade in Employment Growth in Micro-
and Small Enterprises: Evidence from Developing Asia, August
2013. This paper examines the role of international trade in
employment growth in micro-and small enterprises using a
representative sample of manufacturing firms in six Southeast
Asian countries. After controlling for firm and individual
characteristics as well as country and sector dummies,
participation in international trade plays a significant role in
explaining this growth, boosting firm-level growth by 3% per
year on average... |
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ADB |
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2013 Key APEC Documents. Key APEC Documents 2013 is the 20th
in a series produced by the APEC Secretariat. The Key Documents’
publication provides a reference set of the key policy decisions
and initiatives endorsed by APEC Leaders and Ministers each
year. Collectively, these documents frame the policy directions
for APEC’s annual work programs. This issue presents a
compilation of the statements from each of the APEC Ministerial
Meetings held during 2013 together with the APEC Economic
Leaders’ Declaration from their recent meeting in Bali,
Indonesia. |
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APEC |
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Independent Assessment of the APEC Transportation Working Group,
July 2013. |
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APEC |
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Independent Assessment of the Experts Group on Illegal Logging
and Associated Trade, May 2013. |
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APEC |
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Highlights of Journal of Global Buddhism, Volume
13, 2012
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The ASEAN Economic Community: Progress, Challenges, and
Prospects, October 2013. The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)
involves liberalization and facilitation of trade in goods,
services, and investment, as well as protection and promotion of
investment. The paper outlines the AEC Blueprint actions and the
time lines for completion. The authors find that by end-2011
only an implementation rate of 67.5% had been achieved. While
tariff elimination is found to be largely on schedule, there are
difficulties with the removal of non-tariff barriers as well as
with the liberalization of services and investment regimes. |
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ADB |
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Plurilateral Agreements: A Viable Alternative to the World Trade
Organization? October 2013. The paper looks at some
issue-based plurilateral agreements—such as the Information
Technology Agreement (ITA), the Financial Services and Basic
Telecommunication Services Agreements, and the
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)—with the aim of
pointing to their crucial role in resolving the stalemate at the
WTO and the Doha Round and the accelerating proliferation of
free trade agreements (FTAs). It also suggests possible areas
where new plurilateral agreements—whether single or multiple
issue-based—can be developed. The paper highlights the
importance of plurilateral agreements as a mechanism
complementary to the WTO and FTAs in enhancing the governance of
the global trade system, and outlines conditions that need to be
fulfilled to address the needs of developing countries. |
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ADB |
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Special Study on Sustainable Fisheries Management and
International Trade in the Southeast Asia and Pacific Region,
October 2013. This paper analyzes the current status of
fisheries and aquaculture in Southeast Asia and international
trade. Analysis concludes that a policy of sustainable
management for both capture fisheries and aquaculture is of
greatest importance, but such a policy has been neither planned
nor implemented with a holistic and long-term perspective.
Current policy reflects a short-term view and the immediate
needs of each nation. Therefore, capacity building of human
resources and organizations, including governments, is needed
for the formulation of holistic national policies to seek
long-term and fundamental remedies for the sustainable
management of fisheries resources and intensified and extensive
aquaculture. |
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ADB |
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Modern Currency Wars: The United States versus Japan, October
2013. In 2013, through massive quantitative easing by the
Bank of Japan (BOJ), the yen depreciated about 25% against the
US dollar, stoking fears of Japan bashing by the US. However,
this sharp depreciation simply restored the purchasing power
parity of the yen with the dollar. Since 2008, quantitative
easing by the BOJ has been similar to that carried out by the US
Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the European Central
Bank. So the BOJ can only be faulted as a currency belligerent
if there is further significant yen depreciation. Led by the US,
now all mature industrial countries are addicted to near-zero
interest liquidity traps in both the short and long terms. Such
ultra-low interest rates are causing lasting damage to the
countries' financial systems, and to those of emerging markets,
which naturally have higher interest rates. But exiting the trap
creates a risk of chaos in long-term bond markets and is proving
surprisingly difficult.... |
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Exchange Rate Policy and Regional Trade Agreements: A Case of
Conflicted Interests? October 2013. The results highlight
the conflicting interests of countries — to stabilize exchange
rates or to keep the option of exchange rate depreciation in
order to maintain competitiveness of domestic tradable
producers. With deepening integration in East Asia, however, the
desire for exchange rate stability will eventually outweigh the
desire to maintain a protectionist tool... |
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Abenomics' Trade Spillover, October 2013. The paper assesses
the impact on Japan's competitors from a marked fall in the
value of yen. Competing exporters are likely hurt by a cheaper
yen, except those relying heavily on Japanese parts and
components for their exports. This paper formalizes this
intuition and tests it against a data set covering more than 90%
of world trade at the product level, between 2000 and 2011... |
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ADB |
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Invisible Trade Barriers: Trade Effects of US Antidumping
Actions Against the People's Republic of China, October 2013.
This paper empirically examines the trade restriction and
diversion effects of United States (US) antidumping actions
against imports from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The
results show that the antidumping measures raised the prices of
imports from the PRC and reduced US imports from the PRC only in
the short term. Overall, the evidence suggests that antidumping
actions fail to protect US domestic industries but harm US
consumers via higher import prices. |
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ADB |
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Energy Outlook for Asia and the Pacific, 2013. This report
attempts to identify policy, social, infrastructure, and
technology issues that must be addressed to meet the future
energy needs of members of ADB in Asia and the Pacific. Two
cases of the projected energy demand and supply up to 2035 for
ADB members in Asia and the Pacific are presented:.. |
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ADB |
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Economics of Climate Change in East Asia, Published 2013.
This regional study includes the People's Republic of China,
Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Mongolia and examines how
strategies for adapting to climate change up to 2050 can be
combined with measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in
East Asia... |
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ADB |
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South Asia Conference on Environmental Justice, Published 2013.
The recommendations from the conference led to the adoption of a
14-point Bhurban Declaration establishing "green benches" across
Pakistan and calling for subregional collaboration for educated
judiciaries, specialized courts, and cooperation to achieve
environmental justice... |
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ADB |
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Indus Basin Floods: Mechanisms, Impacts, and Management,
Published 2013. This report proposes a contemporary holistic
approach, applying scientific assessments that take people,
land, and water into account. It also includes planning and
implementation realized through appropriate policies,
enforceable laws, and effective institutions. |
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ADB |
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Hong
Kong: High Frequency Macroeconomic Forecasts Current
Quarter Model: 2013Q4, October 2013
revised the real GDP growth
forecast for the whole year of 2013 to 3.4%. This growth
is driven mainly by the mild improvement of the external
sector and the robust internal demand... |
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2013 APEC Economic Policy Report: Executive Summary. This is
an executive summary of the 2013 APEC Economic Policy Report
which focuses on APEC’s work to enhance fiscal transparency and
public accountability as part of APEC’s New Strategy for
Structural Reform initiative. |
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Factsheet: 2013 APEC Economic Policy Report. This is a 2
page factsheet of the 2013 APEC Economic Policy Report which
focuses on APEC’s work to enhance fiscal transparency and public
accountability as part of APEC’s New Strategy for Structural
Reform initiative. |
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APEC |
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2013 APEC Economic Policy Report. As part of APEC’s New
Strategy for Structural Reform initiative, the 2013 APEC
Economic Report focuses on APEC’s work to enhance fiscal
transparency and public accountability. It includes individual
member economies reports to provide valuable information on
economies’ fiscal institutions and their key initiatives and
challenges in promoting fiscal transparency and accountability. |
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APEC |
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2013 Senior Officials' Report on Economic and Technical
Cooperation. The key focus of the SOM Steering Committee on
ECOTECH in 2013 was on improving APEC’s ECOTECH work to ensure
ECOTECH continue to play a critical role in accelerating
Regional Economic Integration and in implementing the APEC
Leaders' Growth Strategy. |
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APEC |
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Factsheet: 2013 APEC Senior Officials' Report on Economic and
Technical Cooperation. This is a 2 page factsheet of the
2013 APEC Senior Officials' Report on Economic and Technical
Cooperation. |
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APEC |
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2013 CTI Annual Report to Ministers. The CTI Annual Report
to Ministers for 2013 outlines the Committee’s accomplishments
and recommendations in the key priority areas of APEC’s Trade
and Investment Liberalization and Facilitation agenda in support
of APEC’s 2013 priorities under the theme of “Resilient
Asia-Pacific, Engine of Global Growth”. |
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APEC |
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APEC in Charts 2013. APEC in Charts is a new initiative of
the APEC Policy Support Unit. It provides a graphical overview
of the APEC region’s economic, trade, investment and
policy-related performance. |
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APEC |
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2013 ABAC Report to Leaders: Partnership, Resilience Bridges to
Growth. The 2013 APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC)
Report to APEC Economic Leaders, contains recommendations by
ABAC to the APEC Economic Leaders in Indonesia, October 2013. |
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APEC |
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2013 ANSSR Mid-Term Progress Report: Summary of Results.
APEC’s New Strategy for Structural Reform (ANSSR) was adopted by
Leaders at their Yokohama meeting in 2010. This report is a
mid-term progress review, designed to facilitate knowledge
exchange and information sharing by highlighting examples of
successful structural reforms, as well as identifying common
challenges that have arisen during the ANSSR implementation
process. |
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APEC |
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APEC Economic Trends Analysis: Cautious Steps towards Recovery,
October 2013. The October 2013 issue examines the economic
performance of the APEC region in the first half of this year.
There have been divergent trends seen in the region. Economic
activity has strengthened in industrialized APEC economies while
there has been weaker than expected GDP growth in some APEC
emerging and developing economies. Some economies in APEC were
also affected as investors reassessed the outlook for monetary
policy in some large economies, with visible impacts on the
bond, equity and currency markets... |
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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, October 2013.
This report was presented at the APEC Ministerial Meeting in
Bali, Indonesia in October 2013. It highlights that as economic
activity has recently gathered strength in advanced economies,
it has begun to slow in many developing and emerging economies.
Trade performance in the first half of 2013 was also weaker than
expected as the strong growth in import demand from emerging
economies wasn't enough to offset the weakened import demand in
advanced economies... |
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Improving Connectivity in the Asia Pacific Region, September
2013. The main objectives of the study are to: (1) enhance
APEC’s understanding of the current state of physical,
institutional and people-to-people connectivity in the APEC
region, including the initiatives of APEC and other
international organizations in promoting connectivity; and (2)
identify gaps and areas of opportunity in order to provide
strategic recommendations towards the development of an APEC
Framework on Connectivity... |
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APEC |
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Emergency Response Travel Facilitation for Personnel, Goods and
Equipment in Times of Crisis: Summary, September 2013. The objective
of this report is two-fold: 1) to understand current policies
and procedures governing the cross-border movement of emergency
personnel and disaster goods and equipment within APEC
economies; and 2) to identify best practices that can be used to
help formulate policy recommendations to effectively deal with
the international movement of emergency responders, disaster
goods and equipment. |
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APEC |
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Study Report on APEC Environmental Services-Related Technology
Market, August 2013. The report aims to provide a
comprehensive study on ES and ES- related technologies market,
including relevant general concepts and links between ES and
ES-related technology, etc. |
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APEC |
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The PLA and International Humanitarian Law: Achievements and
Challenges, October 2013. As a branch
of international law, the duty to implement international
humanitarian law (IHL) lies mainly with the state. The
government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has
undertaken a number of legal and practical actions to
fulfill its international obligations in this area. The
practical measures include organizing and delegating the
implementation of tasks to military authorities and academic
institutions. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has a major
role in the PRC’s aim of ensuring full compliance with this
body of law, as well as ensuring that its provisions are
fully respected, even in peacetime... |
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China's
Antidrug Policies in Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle, September
2013.
Xiaobo Su, recent Asia Studies Visiting Fellow at the East-West
Center in Washington, explains that “Since the 1980s, successive
Chinese leaders have sought to address this nontraditional
security challenge, and there have been a number of initiatives
activated in China’s antidrug campaign with Yunnan province on
the frontline.” |
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EWC |
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Patterns of
Military Behavior in Myanmar's New Legislature , September 2013.
Renaud Egreteau, Research Assistant Professor at the University
of Hong Kong, explains that “All indications are that there is a
long way to go before the Myanmar military fully returns to the
barracks.” |
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EWC |
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US Investors
Support the ASEAN Economic Community But Question the 2015
Deadline, September 2013.
John Goyer, Senior Director for Southeast Asia at the US Chamber
of Commerce, explains that "slightly over half of US companies
surveyed said that their companies are preparing strategies
based on ASEAN's plans to reduce and eliminate barriers to trade
in goods, services, and investment among its member countries." |
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EWC |
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Judicious Ambition: International Policy Priorities for the New
Australian Government, September 2013.
The new Australian Government should approach the international
challenges and opportunities with judicious ambition. It should restore
focus and funding to defence policy, re-energise the G20, add substance
to the Australia-China strategic dialogue, work with China in the
Pacific Islands region and adopt a measured and sustainable approach to
people-smuggling... |
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Lowy |
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Syria: How the West Can Play a Weak Hand Better, September 2013
examines the trajectory of the Syrian conflict in the wake of the
Russian and US agreement to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons. It
argues that while that agreement, enshrined in Security Council
Resolution 2118, may remove a pernicious class of weapons from the
Syrian battlefield, it will do nothing to end the conflict or mitigate
some of its other disastrous consequences. The West needs, therefore, to
build on this deal and forge new agreements to gain humanitarian access
and protection for Syria's civilians, and to establish a durable
ceasefire. This will mean accepting, for the moment at least, that Assad
will remain in power. But Western policy on Syria needs to operate
within the realm of the possible, rather than the preferable... |
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Lowy |
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Trends in a Tumultuous Region: Middle East after the Arab
Awakening, September 2013. This paper, by Lydia Khalil,
looks at the road to revolution, the polarised politics of
Islamists vs secularists, and sectarianism’s grip in the region.
The events in Egypt and Syria illustrate the difficulties faced
by policymakers around the world—options for intervention are
limited. However, the international community continues to look
for ways to encourage stability. Australia's role is considered
including its role on the United Nations Security Council,
particularly when it comes to the Syrian crisis and dealing with
Iran’s nuclear ambitions... |
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ASPI |
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Monetary
Authority of Singapore: Survey of Professional Forecasters (September
2013) |
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MAS |
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Asian Development Outlook 2013
UPDATE
(Highlights,
Full
Report):
Governance and Public Service
Delivery
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Asia Bond Monitor, September 2013. The
quarter-on-quarter growth rate for emerging East Asia's local
local currency bond market in 2Q13 was 1.7%, down from 2.9%
growth in 1Q13, as the region's local currency bond market
reached US$6.8 trillion in size. The slight decline in the
quarterly growth rate reflected not only a drop in the growth
rate for government bonds to 1.1% in 2Q13 from 1.9% in the
previous quarter, but an even larger drop in the corporate
sector’s growth rate to 2.9% from 4.7%... |
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Monetary Policy Frameworks in Asia: Experience, Lessons and
Issues, September 2013. The paper finds that East Asian
central banks have managed inflation and growth well over the
past decade, but the difficulties faced by central banks of
advanced countries in the aftermath of the GFC suggests that not
all problems have been solved. |
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ADB |
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Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production: Evidence from
US States 1950–1990, October 2013. This paper finds that
over the period 1950–1990, states in the United States absorbed
increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory
schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry
increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in
the industry composition toward more schooling-intensive
industries played a less important role... |
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ADB |
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Deepening Economic Cooperation between India and Sri Lanka,
Published 2013. This book analyzes the performance and
impact of the India–Sri Lanka free trade agreement over the past
decade and suggests the way forward. India became an important
source of imports for Sri Lanka immediately after the
implementation of the free trade agreement... |
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ADB |
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Aid for Trade: An Investment-Benefit Road Map from South Asia,
Published 2013. This report lays out an applied framework
for prioritizing potential trade-related interventions and
investments according to the expected strength of their combined
economic impacts. Along the way, and for the first time, the
economic geography of northeastern South Asia has been
comprehensively mapped. Computer-driven modeling provides a
dynamic portrayal of the economic geography that is a resource
for decision makers (and investors)... |
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ADB |
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Health in
the Post-2015 Development Agenda for Asia and the Pacific,
September 2013. The paper discusses the key health
challenges in the post-2015 development agenda for Asia and the
Pacific, a highly populated, diverse region of countries with
different health needs and priorities. However, common to most
countries are the emerging health challenges of an aging
population... |
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ADB |
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Regional and Subregional Program Links: Mapping the links
between ASEAN and the GMS, BIMP-EAGA, and IMT-GT, September 2013.
TThis report presents an assessment of the links among ASEAN and
the three subregional programs (Greater Mekong Subregion [GMS],
Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN
Growth Area [BIMP-EAGA], Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth
Triangle [IMT-GT], and the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations [ASEAN]) and is the first study that explicitly maps and
analyzes the strategic program and institutional links among the
three subregional programs and ASEAN... |
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ADB |
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APEC at a Glance 2014, Published October 2013.
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum was
established in 1989 to capitalise on the growing interdependence
of Asia-Pacific economies. This handy publication lists APEC's
goals, modus operandi and member economies. |
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Guidebook on SME Business Continuity Planning, August 2013.
This Guidebook is
intended to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
introduce business continuity plan (BCP). It presents 10 easy
steps that SME readers can follow to develop their own BCP. In
each step, forms have been prepared to assist readers. You
should fill in those forms to suit the needs of your company.
When you finish all the forms, you will have a complete business
continuity plan for your company. |
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APEC |
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The
Limits of Sovereignty and Post-War Okinawan Migrants in
Bolivia, August 2013.
This paper examines the legal implications for Okinawan
migrants of Article 3 of the San Francisco Peace Treaty
(hereafter SFPT), signed between Japan and most of the
Allied Powers in 1951. Particularly, it analyses the
case of post-war Okinawan migrants in Bolivia, showing
how the legal conditions in the Ryukyu Islands were
extended to the Andean country... |
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APJ |
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Fukushima, Fuel Rods, and the Crisis of Divided and
Distracted Governance, August 2013.
Japan is more fluid than it has been in years. The end
of Japan’s “nejire kokkai” (“divided Diet)” via Abe’s
resounding win in the July 21 Upper House elections was
hailed in many circles in Japan and internationally as
heralding three years of stability in government. But
perhaps this sense of stability has very weak
foundations... |
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APJ |
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Abe's
Nuclear Energy Policy and Japan's Future, August 2013.
Abe was belatedly forced to state, “Rather than relying
on Tokyo Electric, the government will take measures.”
Two and a half years after the three meltdowns at
Fukushima, Tepco has not come to grips with the problem
of how to manage accumulations of contaminated water
being used to cool the crippled reactors and the spread
of that contamination to groundwater that flows through
the plant site to the sea... |
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Water,
Water Everywhere: Incentives and Options at Fukushima
Daiichi and Beyond, August 2013.
Japan’s ruined and radioactive reactor plant at
Fukushima Daiichi has been an abiding source of concern
among knowledgeable observers. There are a host of good
reasons for this reemergence. As this Mainichi survey
observes, it is now clear that several hundred tons of
radiation-contaminated water is entering the ocean per
day... |
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APJ |
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The
Korean War and Sino-North Korean Friendship, August 2013.
The relationship between China and North Korea is a
subject that attracts much discussion and speculation in
today’s policy circles and media. The history of
Sino–North Korean friendship is typically traced to the
time of the Korean War (1950–1953), although in North
Korea it tends to go further back, to the colonial
period... |
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APJ |
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Miyazaki
Hayao's Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises), August 2013.
Miyazaki Hayao‟s new film Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises)
premiered on July 20 and is on pace to become one of the
most successful, if not the most successful, Japanese
films of 2013. Miyazaki tells the story of Horikoshi
Jiro, the designer of the “Zero Fighter”, which was a
terrifyingly effective weapon deployed against China,
the United States, and its allies in the early war
years... |
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APJ |
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In the
Dark With Tepco: Fukushima's Legacy for Nuclear Power,
August 2013.
The sad saga of Fukushima, with its recurrent
revelations of incompetence and obfuscation, carries on.
Among the latest, as related in detail in this July 31
Reuters article, are radioactive releases into the sea,
unexplained ventings of steam, and the lack of a
credible plan to deal with a daily 400-tonne influx of
groundwater... |
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APJ |
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Zen as a
Cult of Death in the Wartime Writings of D.T. Suzuki,
August 2013.
The publication of Zen at War in 1997 and, to a lesser
extent, Zen War Stories in 2003 sent shock waves through
Zen Buddhist circles not only in Japan, but also in the
U.S. and Europe. These books revealed that many leading
Zen masters and scholars, some of whom became well known
in the West in the postwar era, had been vehement if not
fanatical supporters of Japanese militarism... |
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APJ |
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Medical Tourism in the Philippines: Market Profile,
Benchmarking Exercise, and S.W.O.T. Analysis, September
2013 |
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PIDS |
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Relative Price Effects on Decompositions of Change in
Aggregate Labor Productivity, September 2013 |
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PIDS |
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Feasibility of Mortgage-Backed Securitization for the
Underserved Housing Market in the Philippines, September
2013 |
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PIDS |
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Philippine Fisheries Trade with ASEAN: Chokepoints to
AEC 2015, September 2013 |
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PIDS |
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Opportunities for Making Health Financing and Services
More Inclusive in the Philippines, August 2013 |
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PIDS |
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Explaining the Large Disparities in Health in the
Philippines, August 2013 |
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PIDS |
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The Puzzle of Economic Growth and Stalled Health
Improvement in the Philippines, August 2013 |
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PIDS |
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Urgent: A Road Map for Agro-industrial Development in
the Philippines, August 2013 |
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PIDS |
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The ASEAN Economic Community, August 2013 |
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PIDS |
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Buying or Leasing of
Election Machines by COMELEC, August 2013 |
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PIDS |
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After Five Years of Pantawid, What Next? August 2013 |
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PIDS |
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Multisector Strategy in Addressing Noncommunicable
Diseases in the Philippines, July 2013 |
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PIDS |
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Trade Liberalization and Trade Performance in Asia:
1974-2008, April-June 2013 |
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PIDS |
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September,
2013 |
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Financial Health and Firm Productivity: Firm-level Evidence from
Viet Nam, September 2013. This paper empirically
investigates whether financial health shores up firm
productivity. It presents productivity as another driving factor
in translating financial development into real economic
progress. The findings suggest that liquidity and access to
external credit boosts firm productivity, with the latter
particularly imperative for exporting and/or importing firms |
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ADB |
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Asia-Pacific Aspirations: Perspectives for a Post-2015
Development Agenda, Published 2013. This report, the eight
in a series produced under a tripartite partnership involving
ADB, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia
and the Pacific (ESCAP), and the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP), comes at a critical juncture when the
international community needs one strong final push to achieve
the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)... |
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ADB |
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Thinking about Water Differently: Managing the Water–Food–Energy
Nexus, Published 2013. This publication is the result of a
scoping study initiated by the Asian Development Bank to better
understand the issues associated with the water-food-energy
nexus in Asia and the Pacific. It provides high-level guidance
on the choices available to address the region's water security
issues... |
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ADB |
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Managing Regional Public Goods for Health: Community-Based
Dengue Vector Control, Published 2013. This report describes
a promising, low-cost, year-round vector control measure that is
feasible to implement, is acceptable and safe to the public,
and, once established, has minimal recurring costs... |
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ADB |
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Australia.s
Foreign and Defense Policies after the September 2013 Election:
Howard 2.0? September 2013.
Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University,
Australia, explains that "Abbott has plainly signaled that he
sees this government as a continuation of that which was voted
out in 2007." |
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EWC |
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The Japan-US
Alliance Is in Danger of Drifting Apart, September 2013.
Akira Kato, Visiting Scholar at the East-West Center in
Washington, explains that "The fact is that the alliance is not
as close as many think and there are three core reasons why;
namely, the incompatibility of values, a differing world view
and alternative versions of history." |
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EWC |
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Korea's
Creative Economy Agenda, September 2013.
Sean Connell, Japan Studies Visiting Fellow at the East-West
Center in Washington, explains that "Park has described the term
'creative economy' as creating new growth engines and jobs
through 'the convergence of science and technology with
industry, the fusion of culture and industry, and the blossoming
of creativity in the very borders that were once permeated by
barriers.'" |
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EWC |
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NGOs, Piracy
and Maritime Crime in Southeast Asia, September 2013.
Joon Num Mak, Independent Analyst based in Malaysia, writes that
“The establishment of a regional forum where NGOs can meet to
discuss a comprehensive strategy to end the problem of piracy
and maritime crime in Southeast Asia over the long-term would be
a very important development.” |
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EWC |
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Ethnic
Policy in China: Is Reform Inevitable? Published 2013.
Following significant interethnic violence beginning in 2008,
Chinese intellectuals and policymakers are now engaged in
unprecedented debate over the future direction of their
country's ethnic policies. This study attempts to gauge current
Chinese opinion on this once-secretive and still highly
sensitive area of national policy... |
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EWC |
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Asian Development Review, Vol.
30,
No. 2, 2013 (Full
Report):
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ADB |
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Strategic Options for Urbanization in the People's Republic of
China: Key Findings, Published 2013. This report is based on
a 2011–2012 policy study for the PRC’s forthcoming national
urbanization plan that will set out urban development policies
and guidelines over the coming decade. It examines the PRC’s
urbanization challenges and suggests actions for improving the
urban environment through changes in the design, financing,
administration, and social integration of cities. |
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ADB |
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Overcoming Critical Constraints to Sustaining Productivity
Growth in Key Commodities of Asia and the Pacific, September
2013. Two trends on yields have been observed for rice,
wheat, and even edible oils in Asia. The deceleration of yield
growth is one of these trends. The other relates to the
differential yield increases across countries in the region.
This study provides explanations for both trends and relates
these to the exhaustion of the yield potential of current
technology, emerging threats posed by climate change and other
disturbances, varying levels of development across countries and
hence the development of infrastructure, among others... |
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ADB |
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Food Prices and Population Health in Developing Countries: An
Investigation of the Effects of the Food Crisis Using a Panel
Analysis, September 2013. It finds that rising food prices
have a significant and adverse effect on all three health
indicators in developing countries. Furthermore, the impact of
food prices is severer in the least developing countries
although the effect is moderated in countries with a greater
share of agriculture in gross domestic product. |
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ADB |
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International Trade and Risk Sharing in the Global Rice
International Trade and Risk Sharing in the Global Rice Market:
The Impact of Foreign and Domestic Supply Shocks, September 2013.
In recent years, rising food prices have returned as a concern
for policy makers especially in developing countries. In this
context, this paper examines how supply shocks, both domestic
and foreign, have mattered to imports and consumption in the
global rice market over 1960–2010. Such an investigation is
important in assessing the role of trade in compensating for
domestic shocks... |
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ADB |
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Safety Nets and Food Programs in Asia: A Comparative
Perspective, September 2013. Many countries adopted safety
net programs to deal with the food crisis of 2008. However, such
programs are often beset with targeting errors, inefficiencies,
and fraud. Despite this, there is no systematic comparative
analysis of safety nets. The objective of this paper is to
identify generic issues germane to safety net design and their
role in determining success. It examines the performance of
safety net programs in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and the
Philippines... |
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ADB |
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Examining the Determinants of Food Prices in Developing Asia,
September 2013. The findings suggest Asian food markets are
more integrated regionally than with the world market. The
short-run movements of domestic food prices are accounted for
largely by the country’s own shock. Taken together, our findings
suggest that promoting food price stability would require
efforts at the regional level as well as at the domestic level,
reflecting the influence of region-specific factors. Extensions
to the developing countries in other regions produce similar
findings on the determination of food prices. |
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ADB |
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Poverty and Food Security in India, September 2013. This
paper is an attempt to analyze the impact of two of India’s
largest food security interventions—the Public Distribution
System (PDS) and the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDM)—on poverty
outcomes and on nutritional intake. This paper offers a simple
methodology to take into account the impact of food-based
transfers by including the implicit transfers from these schemes
along with generating consumption expenditure estimates
consistent with the transfers... |
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ADB |
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Rice Trade and Price Volatility: Implications on ASEAN and
Global Food Security, September 2013. This paper highlights
the thinness of rice trade relative to wheat and maize, and the
contrasting price volatility and tradability relations for wheat
and maize, which display a positive correlation, and for rice,
which show an inverse relation. The paper focuses on Southeast
Asia, which hosts the world’s biggest rice exporters and rice
importers... |
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ADB |
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Bilateral Trade and Food Security, September 2013. It
analyzes the relationship between food security and trade,
focusing on food importers’ exposure to sudden market failures
from relying on a narrow range of international suppliers. They
compute a bilateral import penetration index (BIPI), which
gauges the degree to which a country depends on another for food
imports... |
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ADB |
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Leveraging Service Sector Growth in the Philippines, September
2013. The Philippines is often referred to as a country from
which export of services rather than manufactured goods is the
principal engine for economic growth, as the share of the
service sector in gross domestic product has exceeded that of
the industry sector since the mid-1980s. Three major
opportunities for leveraging service sector growth stands out... |
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ADB |
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The Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing
Industry: Diversity and Challenges in Asia, September 2013.
Some countries and regions have been more successful than others
in developing information technology-business process
outsourcing (IT-BPO) services industries. India and the
Philippines in particular have offered educated human resources
at low cost, attractive fiscal incentives, and industrial parks
although these factors alone do not explain the rapid growth of
the industry there as other countries also had these strengths
but failed to develop industries as rapidly... |
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ADB |
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Addressing Planthopper Threats to Asian Rice Farming and Food
Security: Fixing Insecticide Misuse, August 2013. This paper
emphasizes the threat of insecticide misuse not only to farmers
but, more importantly, also to the sustainable development of
rice farming and food security. Thus, it is important to
urgently address this threat and to develop more sustainable
approaches that will integrate policies, marketing, and
technologies to reduce the vulnerability of intensive rice
production to planthopper outbreaks... |
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ADB |
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Key Indicators for
Asia and the Pacific 2013 (Highlights,
Special Supplement
and
Full Report):
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Part I:
A Special Chapter on "Asia's Economic Transformation:
Where to, How, and How Fast?"
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Part II:
Millennium Development Goals
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Part III: Regional
Trends and Tables
Key Indicators for
Asia and the Pacific 2013 covers 48
economies:
Afghanistan,
Armenia,
Australia,
Azerbaijan,
Bangladesh,
Bhutan,
Brunei Darussalam,
Cambodia,
China,
Cook Islands,
Fiji Islands,
Georgia,
Hong
Kong,
India,
Indonesia,
Japan,
Kazakhstan,
Kiribati,
Republic
of Korea,
Kyrgyz Republic,
Lao,
Malaysia,
Maldives,
Marshall Islands,
Micronesia,
Mongolia,
Myanmar,
Nauru,
Nepal,
New Zealand,
Pakistan,
Palau,
Papua New Guinea,
Philippines,
Samoa,
Singapore,
Solomon Islands,
Sri Lanka,
Taipei,
Tajikistan,
Thailand,
Timor-Leste,
Tonga,
Turkmenistan,
Tuvalu,
Uzbekistan,
Vanuatu,
and
Viet Nam. |
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ADB |
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Empirical Determinants and Patterns of Research and Development
Investment in Asia, August 2013. This paper investigates the
financial determinants of research and development (R&D)
investment in Asia, where innovation is naturally seen as the
key driver of future (high) economic growth. Listed nonfinancial
firms from eight economies in region (the People’s Republic of
China; Hong Kong, China; India; Indonesia; the Republic of
Korea; Malaysia; the Philippines; and Singapore) are sampled for
the period 2002–2011 using the Oriana database... |
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ADB |
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Agriculture and Structural Transformation in Developing Asia:
Review and Outlook, August 2013. Relative to other
developing regions, developing Asia has experienced a slower
decline in employment share in agriculture, compared to its
output share; a rapid growth in labor and land productivity; and
a shift from agricultural output from traditional to high-value
products. The most successful Asian economies have pursued an
agricultural development-led industrialization pathway.
Nevertheless, agriculture remains the largest employer in many
large Asian countries, hence future structural transformation
must take into account agricultural transformation... |
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ADB |
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Housing and Housing Finance—A Review of the Links to Economic
Development and Poverty Reduction, August 2013. The paper
provides a review of the literature that links housing, housing
finance, and economic development. The housing sector may
support poverty reduction and inclusive growth in two general
ways. First, housing construction contributes to economic
output, creates employment, and generates a demand for materials
and related services. Second, improved housing raises the
standard of living of occupants. At the same time, housing
purchases are costly for individuals, constituting the most
valuable asset owned by most households and often requiring
housing finance (mortgages) to allow for purchase... |
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ADB |
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Globalization, Labor Market Regulation, and Firm Behavior,
August 2013. The paper analyzes the link between firm
characteristics and labor market regulation in five Asian
economies—Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and
Viet Nam. Labor market policies and labor standards do not only
affects workers, but also influence firms’ investment and
employment decisions. The empirical analysis uses information
from enterprise surveys. Empirical results describe systematic
differences in the perceived level of labor market regulation... |
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ADB |
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Building Development Effectiveness Post-2015: A Results-Based
Approach, August 2013. The current debate about the
post-2015 period has generated a wide range of ideas on what the
new agenda should include, and how it should be implemented.
This paper seeks to contribute to the discussion by putting
forward a possible framework that is focused on accelerating
achievement of development results while enhancing their
sustainability and accountability... |
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ADB |
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Climate-Related Disasters in Asia and the Pacific, July 2013.
Along with the scientific association between greenhouse gases
and the changes in the climate, the findings in this paper
suggest that there is a link between increasing natural
disasters in Asia and the Pacific and man-made emissions of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere... |
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ADB |
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International Lessons for Road Safety in the People's Republic
of China, June 2013. This paper has identified lessons from
high income countries that have been successful in road safety
that are relevant for the PRC and other low and medium income
countries to draw upon and benchmark, in their efforts to reduce
road traffic deaths and injuries... |
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ADB |
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Solid Waste Management in Nepal: Current Status and Policy
Recommendations, Published 2013. Managing solid waste is one
of the major challenges in urbanization. A survey conducted in
all 58 municipalities of Nepal in 2012 found that the average
municipal solid waste generation was 317 grams per capita per
day. This translates into 1,435 tons per day or 524,000 tons per
year of municipal solid waste generation in Nepal. Many of these
technically and financially constrained municipalities are still
practicing roadside waste pickup from open piles and open
dumping, creating major health risks. |
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ADB |
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Agenda for Change: Strategic Choices for the Next Government,
August 2013. The next government has a primary requirement
to be well briefed on the challenges inherent in Australia’s
strategic circumstances and the policy options available to it.
ASPI is publishing this report to layout our strategic choices
and to provide recommendations. |
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ASPI |
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Getting There - a Status Update for the 2000 Defence White
Paper, August 2013. This paper, by Andrew Davies, reviews
the 31 major capability announcements made back then. It
suggests its probably a good time for the incoming Defence
Minister to look back at the lessons of D2000's force structure
plans before moving forward. |
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ASPI |
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APEC Study Center Consortium Conference 2013, Proceedings.
The APEC Study Center Consortium Conference 2013 report was
prepared by the APEC Study Center Consortium (ASCC). It presents
the summary of the findings and a compilation of the
presentations presented at the above ASCC conference. |
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APEC |
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Low Carbon Intelligent Operations for Textile Industry in APEC
Economies-Project Midterm Report, August 2013. The project
aimed to assist textile manufacturers in creating a low-carbon
materials processing procedure according to the publicly
available specification of carbon footprint verification (PAS
2050) in APEC economics. |
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APEC |
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APEC Building Codes, Regulations and Standards, August 2013.
This study was developed for the purpose of understanding how
APEC member economies utilized building codes to increase
building performance, aligning with the “green” goals of
resource conservation and waste reduction. Building codes
historically have been important policy tools for managing the
safety, security, health, environment, and economy of the
building sector. |
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APEC |
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APEC Conference on Low Carbon Town and Physical Energy Storage,
Proceedings, May 2013, (Published August 2013).
This proceeding is based on the APEC Conference on Low-carbon
Towns and Physical Energy Storage. More than 120 papers from all
over the world are included in this proceeding, mainly about
advanced technology about how to build and reach Low-carbon Town
and new physical energy storage technology for energy
conversation with phase change material. |
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APEC |
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Advancing Inclusive Growth through Social Protection Project
Report, Published 2013. This project is
aimed at better understanding how social protection systems
could become more efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable.
Economies participating in the seminars identified common
challenges to implementing effective social protection and
corresponding measures to strengthen these systems. These steps
include effectively targeting those most in need of assistance,
promoting the employment of beneficiaries, ensuring sustainable
program financing, and developing accurate evaluations of
program performance. |
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APEC |
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August,
2013 |
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The
Philippines' Security Cooperation with the United States and
Japan, August 2013.
Julio S. Amador III, Asia Studies Visiting Fellow at the
East-West Center in Washington, writes that "One option for the
Philippines to augment its defense capabilities is to provide
access for US forces to its military bases with the possibility
that other countries, especially Japan, could enjoy the same
privilege." |
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EWC |
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Abe's Real
Challenge is the Japanese Economy, August 2013.
Hiroaki Kuwajima, Chief Financial Officer at Aoyama Shachu
Corporation, explains that "The key issue is whether Prime
Minister Abe understands the importance of economic recovery as
the source of his legitimacy, ahead of his own goals which
include constitutional reform." |
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EWC |
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High Hopes
and New Realities for the Vietnam-US Relationship, August 2013.
Hoang Anh Tuan, Director-General of the Institute for Foreign
Policy and Strategic Studies at the Diplomatic Academy of
Vietnam, explains that "Few can doubt after President Truong's
visit that both the United States and Vietnam are looking to
further build on the foundation of bilateral trust already in
place between the two countries." |
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EWC |
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Rebalancing
NGO Contributions to Public Health in Asia, July 2013.
Yanzhong Huang, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council
on Foreign Relations, explains that "In Asia, the capacity of
NGOs to contribute to public health, both within individual
countries and at the regional level, has steadily expanded." |
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EWC |
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Military Transformation with Chinese Characteristics in the
New Century, July 2013.
The development of the worldwide Revolution in Military
Affairs provides China with a rare historical opportunity,
but also with unprecedented challenges. Seizing the
opportunity and accelerating the military transformation
with Chinese characteristics is a prerequisite for China’s
efforts to build a moderately prosperous society. After more
than ten years of steady gradual reform, China’s national
defense and army building has achieved a new historic level
of development... |
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ISDP |
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Socio-Cultural Characteristics of Civil Society Formation in
Kyrgyzstan, July 2013.
The present research sets out to answer a number of
questions: Why is a turn for the better in Kyrgyzstan so
difficult despite a very clear understanding of the
advantages of a democratic system? What are the reasons for
the current structure of the country's socio-political
relations? What motivates Kyrgyz society, unlike its
“stable” neighbors, to assert the principles
of Western liberalism in the country, and why are the
results of this
movement still so far from the desired ones? How does the
“freedom-loving” spirit of the nomadic Kyrgyz people, who do
not tolerate any kind of violence, coexist with the humility
and submissiveness Kyrgyz society has shown under the
present circumstances? |
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ISDP |
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An Asian Perspective on Global Financial Reforms, August 2013.
Th The aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007–08
underlined the importance of maintaining fiscal space and fiscal
sustainability. Even though many Asian economies implemented
fiscal stimulus policies during the crisis period, their fiscal
conditions generally improved rapidly thereafter, and their
overall government debt positions, aside from that of Japan,
appear strong. Nonetheless, there are a number of reasons to
believe that conditions in emerging Asian economies will not
always be so supportive. The first objective of this paper is to
identify long-term issues of fiscal sustainability risk for
emerging Asian economies. The second objective is to recommend
policies to reduce these risks to sustainability. |
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ADB |
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Long-term Issues for Fiscal Sustainability in Emerging Asia,
August 2013.
The aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007–08
underlined the importance of maintaining fiscal space and fiscal
sustainability. The first objective of this paper is to identify
long-term issues of fiscal sustainability risk for emerging
Asian economies. The second objective is to recommend policies
to reduce these risks to sustainability. |
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ADB |
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Multilateralizing Asian Regionalism, August 2013.
Motivated by the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs)
in Asia over the last decade, this paper studies the challenges
faced by the Asian "noodle bowl"—overlapping, multiple trade
rules, regulations, and standards in Asia—in the process of
regional and global trade integration... |
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ADB |
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ADB Perceptions Survey: Multinational Survey of Stakeholders
2012, August 2013.
The 2012 perceptions survey measures stakeholders’ views on
development issues in the region and seeks to understand how
well ADB’s priorities and performance are aligned with its
stakeholders’ expectations and perceptions, and whether these
have changed since the 2009 survey was conducted. The survey
results provide important insights about ADB’s performance in
contributing to poverty reduction in the Asia and Pacific region
under its Strategy 2020. The survey, the third of its kind since
2006, was carried out among 900 opinion leaders in 31 member
countries, drawn from a broad cross section of stakeholders in
government, media, civil society, academia, the private sector,
and development partners. |
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ADB |
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Banking Crises and "Japanization": Origins and Implications,
July 2013.
Japan's "two lost decades" perhaps represent an extreme example
of a weak recovery from a financial crisis, and are now referred
to as "Japanization." More recently, widespread stagnation in
advanced economies in the wake of the global financial crisis
led to fears that Japanization might spread to other countries.
This study examines the dimensions of Japanization—including low
trend growth, debt deleveraging, deflation, and massive
increases in government debt—and analyzes their possible
causes—including inadequate macroeconomic policy responses,
delayed banking sector restructuring, inadequate corporate
investment, loss of industrial competitiveness, a slowdown in
total factor productivity (TFP) growth due to excessive
regulation and economic rigidities, and an aging society. |
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ADB |
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Determinants of Financial Stress in Emerging Market Economies,
July 2013.
The global financial crisis of 2008–2009 illustrates how
financial turmoil in advanced economies could trigger severe
financial stress in emerging markets. Previous studies dealing
with financial crises and contagion show the linkages through
which financial stress are transmitted from advanced to emerging
markets. This paper extends the existing literature on the use
of financial stress index (FSI) in understanding the channels of
financial transmission in emerging market economies. Using FSI
of 25 emerging markets, the panel regression estimates show that
not only advanced economies FSI, but also regional and
non-regional emerging market FSIs significantly increase
domestic financial stress... |
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ADB |
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Determinants of Urbanization, July 2013.
In light of the United Nations' (UN) latest urbanization
projections, particularly with respect to India and the People's
Republic of China, a good understanding is needed of what drives
aggregate urbanization trends. Yet, previous literature has
largely neglected the issue in favor of studying urban
concentration. Taking advantage of the latest UN World
Urbanization Prospects, authors use an instrumental variables
approach to identify and analyze key urbanization determinants.
They estimate the impact of gross domestic product (GDP) growth
on urbanization to be large and positive. In answer to
Henderson's (2003) finding that urbanization does not seem to
cause growth, they argue that the direction of causality runs
from growth to urbanization... |
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ADB |
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What is Economic Corridor Development and What Can It Achieve in
Asia's Subregions? July 2013.
What economic corridors can achieve for regional economic
integration depends first on what characteristics the specific
existing economic networks in which the economic corridors are
embedded personify, and second on which characteristics corridor
development are intended to introduce or strengthen. Corridor
characteristics interact dynamically to create patterns of
regional economic development... |
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ADB |
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The People's Republic of China's Financial Policy and Regional
Cooperation in the Midst of Global Headwinds, June 2013.
Although growth deceleration in the People’s Republic of China (PRC)
is inevitable, if the country’s new direction of financial
policy (on exchange rate, capital flows, banking, capital
market) can be achieved, it will be good not only for the
country but also for the
rest of Asia. This is consistent with the increased degree of
Asia’s integration and interdependence. But given the nature of
financial contagion and spillovers across countries and asset
classes, the financial headwinds from global crisis may require
regional cooperation in safety nets provision, as the domestic
policy in the PRC and other Asian countries is likely
insufficient... |
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Climate Risks in the Mekong Delta: Ca Mau and Kien Giang
Provinces of Viet Nam, Published 2013. The study focuses on
vulnerability assessment of two provinces in the Mekong Delta
region: Ca Mau and Kien Giang. Using climate change modeling,
socioeconomic data, geographic information system analysis, and
expert opinion, the study identifies future climate conditions
and assesses the effects of future climate scenarios on the
natural, social, and economic systems of each district of Ca Mau
and Kien Giang provinces... |
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Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons: The Next Step in Multilateral
Arms Control, August 2013. This paper by Crispin Rovere and
Kalman A Robertson addresses the many barriers to including
tactical nuclear weapons in disarmament talks. It considers the
difficulty of bringing other emerging powers such as China into
the nuclear arms control equation... |
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Australia as a Southern Hemisphere Power, July 2013. With
attention focused on our relations with Asia, analysts have
overlooked a significant strategic shift in recent years:
Australia's emergence as a major 'soft power' across the
Southern Hemisphere, from sub-Saharan Africa to South America,
as well as in Antarctica and the Southwest Pacific... |
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Securing the South Pacific: Making the Most of Australia's
Renewed Regional Focus, July 2013. A decade after the
invasion of Iraq, the 10-year-anniversary of the Regional
Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) later this month
will mark an equally significant juncture in Australia’s
strategic policy... |
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ASPI |
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Vietnam's Strategic Trajectory: From Internal Development to
External Engagement, June 2012. This paper by Le Hong Hiep
analyses Vietnam’s strategic trajectory over the past two
decades, with an emphasis on its relations with China and the
US, its policies on the South China Sea dispute, and the
implications for regional players... |
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India's Rise as an Asia-Pacific Power: Rhetoric and Reality, May
2012. India’s emergence as an Asian power—and eventually
perhaps as an Asia–Pacific power—has wide implications for the
region and consequently for Australia. This paper, authored by
Dr Sandy Gordon, considers those implications as they relate to
three closely related areas... |
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Abe, Big
Data and Bad Dreams: Japan's ICT Future? July 2013.
This short article argues that Abe would be well advised
to follow the advice of a succession of recent white
papers and reports from within his own party and
government, and focus on the enabling role of
information and computer technology (ICT) in energy,
health and a range of other services and markets... |
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APJ |
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US
Government Protection of Al-Qaeda Terrorists and the
US-Saudi Black Hole, July 2013.
For almost two centuries American government, though
always imperfect, was also a model for the world of
limited government, having evolved a system of
restraints on executive power through its constitutional
arrangement of checks and balances... |
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APJ |
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Japan's
Democracy at Risk - The LDP's Ten Most Dangerous
Proposals for Constitutional Change, July 2013.
Is it time to bring Japan’s postwar experiment in
liberal democracy to an end? Prime Minister Abe Shinzo
and his followers seem to think so. In April 2012, the
LDP published a clear blueprint for constitutional
revision that would go a long way toward achieving this
goal... |
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APJ |
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The
Roadmap for Fukushima Daiichi and the Sacrifice of
Japan's Clean-up Workers, July 2013.
During his June 2013 visit to Poland, Prime Minister Abe
Shinzo highlighted the crisis management of the
post-3.11 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as an
argument for the sales and promotion of Japanese nuclear
technology. A few weeks before, the French company Areva
mobilized to promote cooperation with Japan Nuclear Fuel
Ltd, Atox and Hitachi-GE during French President
François Hollande‟s visit to Japan... |
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APJ |
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The
Re-Branding of Abe Nationalism: Global Perspectives on
Japan, July 2013.
In 2010, the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC)
launched a highly successful TV show called The Gruen
Transfer. The title refers to the disorienting
psychological effects produced on consumers by the
architecture of shopping malls, whose dazzle and noise
are deliberately designed to mesmerize: on entering,
“our eyes glaze over, our jaws slacken... we forget what
we came for and become impulse buyers”... |
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APJ |
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Green
Shoot: Abenomics and the 3rd Arrow, July 2013.
This article describes the impressive,
resilience-targeted greening of Japan, evident in
nationwide deployments of renewable energy, radical
efficiency, and other core aspects of sustainability.
These developments are already underway, and include
public- and private-sector actors as well as community
groups. The greening also has promising stamina due to
being increasingly deeply inscribed in the fiscal,
regulatory and other mechanisms of a rapidly emergent
industrial policy... |
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APJ |
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'Sweetening' the Pentagon's Deal in the Marianas: From
Guam to Pagan, July 2013.
In his book, Living in the Number One Country:
Reflections of a Critic on American Empire, Herbert
Schiller observes that „definitional control‟ serves “to
bulwark, or at least minimize, threats to the prevailing
order.” In the context of contemporary Guam, control
over concepts of patriotism toward the United States
have hardly needed any coercion from the top of the
political order as gratitude toward the U.S. military
for ending the brutal wartime Japanese occupation of
Guam, decades ago, has largely remained fixed in the
memory of the indigenous Chamorro people... |
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APJ |
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Training
Women for Disasters: Gender, Crisis Management (Kiki
Kanri) and Post-3.11 Nationalism in Japan, July 2013.
On September 2, 2011, Takarajimasha, a publisher known
for its popular magazines, printed an oversized PR piece
in the leading national newspapers in Japan. Splashed
across the pages of the Asahi, Yomiuri, Mainichi,
Sankei, Nihon Keizai, and NikkanGendai was the 1945
black-and-white photograph of General Douglas MacArthur,
the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, emerging
from his plane, Bataan, at Atsugi Airport outside Tokyo
to commence his reign as head of the occupation forces
in Japan... |
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APJ |
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Cosmetic
Surgery and Embodying the Moral Self in South Korean
Popular Makeover Culture, June 2013.
You only have to spend a day in Seoul to realize that
appearances do matter in contemporary South Korean
society. Advertisements for various cosmetic surgeries
are conspicuous everywhere—from taxis to public
transport and underground stations, all evidence that
the industry is booming... |
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APJ |
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Washington's Battle Over Syrian Foreign Policy: Will
Hawks Or Doves Prevail? June 2013.
Like Putin‘s policy in Russia, Obama‘s Syrian policy is
being tugged strenuously in Washington, both by hawks
and by doves. On June 13, Obama handed two limited but
ominous victories to the hawks: a finding of fact that
the troops of Syria‘s president Bashar al-Assad "have
used chemical weapons [i.e. sarin] against rebel
forces," and a consequent decision to "begin supplying
the rebels for the first time with small arms and
ammunition"... |
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APJ |
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Renewable Energy vs. Nuclear Power: Taiwan's energy
future in light of Chinese, German and Japanese
experience since 3.11, June 2013.
This article reviews the current debate in Taiwan over
the future of nuclear power in the country's energy mix.
Rather than debate a pro- or anti-nuclear stance, the
authors develop the argument that Taiwan has more to
gain in promoting renewable energy industries than in
sticking with the nuclear option, both in terms of
energy security and of building export platforms for
tomorrow... |
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APJ |
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Abenomics Needs a Reboot Rather than Nuclear Restarts,
June 2013.
A June 2 article in Bloomberg by the deservedly
respected University of California at San Diego
Professor of Japanese Business, Ulrike Schaede, makes
the argument that Abenomics requires nuclear restarts in
order to work... |
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APJ |
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Learning to
Love NGOs: The Growing Role of Civil Society in Asian Security,
July 2013.
James Gannon, Executive Director of the Japan Center for
International Exchange (JCIE/USA), explains that "a new Japan
Center for International Exchange (JCIE) study suggests that
governments and regional institutions in Asia are failing to
take full advantage of the potential of NGOs." |
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EWC |
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Social
Media's Growing Influence on Cambodian Politics, July 2013.
Sophat Soeung, Research Fellow with the Cambodian Institute for
Cooperation and Peace, explains that "Irrespective of the
upcoming election results, social media has created a nascent
and more pluralistic online political environment where
Cambodians exchange different political viewpoints freely." |
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EWC |
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The Expanding
Indo-Japanese Partnership, July 2013.
K.V. Kesavan, Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research
Foundation, New Delhi, and Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow
Wilson Center, writes that "The May 2013 Joint Statement signed
by the two leaders refers to the elaborate institutional
framework the two countries have built together for conducting
dialogues and consultations covering a wide range of political
and economic subjects, including shared security concerns." |
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EWC |
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Strategic
Implications of TPP: Answering the Critics, July 2013.
Ellen Frost, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the East-West Center in
Washington, argues that "Far from thwarting Asian regionalism,
TPP merely adds a new overlay. It gives ASEAN an additional
incentive to achieve its goal of an ASEAN Economic Community by
2015. It has also set a major new pan-Asian grouping in motion." |
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EWC |
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US and
Japanese National Security Regulation on Foreign Direct
Investment, July 2013.
Rikako Watai, Japan Studies Visiting Fellow at the East-West
Center in Washington, explains that "The critical issue is how
to balance the legitimate demands of national security with free
trade and FDI, but citing opaque national security concerns for
justifying protectionist measures clearly obstructs the GATT-WTO
premise of free trade." |
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EWC |
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Micronesians on the Move: Eastward and Upward Bound, Published
2013.
Is rising emigration proof of a Pacific Island nation’s failure
to fulfill its economic promise and provide the jobs that its
citizens seek in a modernized society? Or is it a legitimate
alternative development strategy that depends on the export of
surplus labor in lieu of the more conventional methods
recommended by donor nations and international financial
institutions? In this report, Francis X. Hezel, SJ, sheds light
on these questions by reviewing the 30-year history of migration
from one Pacific Island nation, the Federated States of
Micronesia (FSM) and examining the current status of its
migrants... |
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EWC |
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Global Supply Chain Operation in the APEC Region: Case Study of
the Electrical and Electronics Industry, July 2013.
This study aims to provide a detailed understanding of current
electrical and electronics (E&E) industry supply chain
operations, strategies, and challenges, and suggest approaches
APEC might adopt to make these supply chains and others more
efficient and better contribute to economic integration in the
region. |
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APEC's Ease of Doing Business - Interim Assessment 2009-2012,
July 2013.
The report assesses the progress made by APEC in the priority
areas included in the Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) initiative:
1) Starting a Business; 2) Getting Credit; 3) Enforcing
Contracts; 4) Trading Across Borders; and 5) Dealing with
Construction Permits. Based on the World Bank’s Doing Business
database, APEC’s collective progress in the EoDB initiative was
equal to 11.5 percent between 2009 and 2012, exceeding the 2012
pro rata improvement target of 10 percent... |
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APEC Energy Overview 2012,
Published July 2013 (Full
Report) covering
Australia,
Brunei
Darussalam,
Canada,
Chile,
China,
Hong Kong,
Indonesia,
Japan,
Korea,
Malaysia,
Mexico,
New
Zealand,
Papua New
Guinea,
Peru,
Philippines,
Russia,
Singapore,
Chinese
Taipei,
Thailand,
United
States and
Viet Nam. |
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APEC |
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Drivers of Regulatory Reform in Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy, July 2013. |
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APEC |
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APEC Workshop on Best Practices on Financing Renewable Energy -
Summary Report and Presentations, June 2013.
The Workshop was targeted to analyze the current situation,
statistics and experiences with financing renewable energy in
the APEC region. This report provides the summary report and
some presentations done at the workshop. |
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APEC |
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Independent Assessment of the Energy Working Group, May 2013.
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APEC |
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Independent Assessment of the Counter Terrorism Task Force, May
2013. |
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APEC |
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Independent Assessment of the Experts Group on Illegal Logging
and Associated Trade, May 2013. |
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APEC |
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Effect on Accommodating Renewable Energy Penetration in the
Smart Grid, April 2013.
Study of the paper covers three sub-subjects: firstly the study
on the feasibility and benefit analysis of improving RES
consumption by demand response are presented; then business
operation mode and policy mechanism of demand response are
designed in detail; finally the pilot implementations project
mode of demand response are explained. |
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APEC |
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Real Estate Valuation, Current Account, and Credit Growth
Patterns Before and After the 2008 - 2009 Crisis, July 2013.
This paper explores the stability of the key conditioning
variables accounting for real estate valuation before and after
the crisis of 2008–2009, in a panel of 36 countries, for the
period of 2005:I–2012:IV, recognizing the incidence of global
financial crisis. Our paper validates the robustness of the
association between the real estate valuation of lagged current
account patterns, both before and after the crisis. The results
are supportive of both current account and credit growth
channels, with the animal-spirits and momentum channels playing
the most important role in the boom and bust of real estate
valuation. |
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ADB |
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Gender Equality and Food Security - Women’s Empowerment as a
Tool against Hunger, Published 2013. There is a strong
relationship between gender-based discrimination and the
different channels through which households and individuals
access food—through own-production, access to waged employment,
or social protection. The report shows that while equality of
treatment between women and men and food security are mutually
supportive, gender equality remains an elusive goal in many
parts of Asia and the Pacific... |
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ADB |
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Development Effectiveness Report 2012: Private Sector
Operations, Published 2013. This fourth annual report on the
development effectiveness of ADB’s private sector operations
reviews how the Private Sector Operations Department has
contributed to promoting ADB’s development effectiveness agenda.
The report features the direct and indirect impact of private
sector assistance. It considers the value added of this
assistance, highlighting performance trends and identifying
actions required to improve results. |
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ADB |
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Hong
Kong: High Frequency Macroeconomic Forecasts Current
Quarter Model: 2013Q3, July 2013
lowers the forecast of
annual growth of real GDP slightly to lie between 3.3%
and 4.1% this year. This revision reflects the recent
slowdown in the China’s economy, and
the slower-than-expected recovery in the world
economy... |
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Monetary
Authority of Singapore: Survey of Professional Forecasters (March
2013,
June 2013) |
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MAS |
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Thematic Inspection of Residential Property Loans Business, June
2013 |
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MAS |
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Monetary Policy Operations in Singapore, March 2013 |
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MAS |
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Asian Development Outlook Supplement, July 2013. Although
advanced economies have largely met expectations so far in 2013,
developing Asia has not achieved the momentum envisaged in the
Asian Development Outlook. This Supplement trims 0.3 percentage
points from the region’s growth forecasts, to 6.3% in 2013 and
6.4% in 2014... |
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ADB |
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Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement:
Evaluation and Implications for East Asian Regionalism, July
2013. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement seems to
have reached a crossroads: it could either be a building block
toward achieving economic integration in Asia and the Pacific,
or trigger the formation of two large trade blocs which will
work independently of one another. When the Government of Japan
announced its participation in the TPP negotiations in March
2013, the partnership began to attract greater interest from
other East Asian countries. This paper analyzes the progress and
major issues regarding the current TPP negotiations which are
being led by the United States, and draws implications for East
Asian economic integration. |
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ADB |
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Development Imperatives for the Asian Century, July 2013.
Evidence-based economic policies—pragmatic policies that
work—played a major role in Asia’s success in raising its living
standards in the last half century. However, growth prospects
are now threatened by rising income inequality and environmental
degradation if Asia continues on its established growth path.
Evidence strongly argues for Asia to broaden its development
priorities into a triple bottom line: that is, a focus on
growth, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability... |
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ADB |
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Features, Restrictions, and Policy Recommendations in the
Service Sector of the People's Republic of China, July 2013.
The development of the service sector in the People’s Republic
of China has not kept pace with the country’s overall economic
development. The share of employment in services is still
lagging behind that of output and is also below the
international norm. Moving from traditional services to modern
business services has been the focus in recent decades, but the
current structure is still dominated by low-end, traditional
industries... |
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ADB |
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Intellectual Property Rights, Quality of Institutions, and
Foreign Direct Investment into Developing Asia, July 2013.
Developing Asian countries are strengthening their intellectual
property rights regime as they themselves become producers of
intellectual property. At the same time, developing Asia has
attracted large amounts of foreign direct investment and this
trend is expected to continue in light of the region’s strong
growth prospects. In this paper, the relationship between
intellectual property rights and foreign direct investment in
developing Asia is explored... |
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ADB |
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A
Turning Point for the Service Sector in Thailand, June 2013.
Although Thailand’s service sector accounts for almost half of
the national income and has a major stake in national
employment, its contribution to the growth of the gross domestic
product (GDP) fluctuates. Moreover, the share of the service
sector in GDP is decreasing while many developed countries
maintain a positive association between the shares of the sector
in output and per capita income. This paper investigates this
relationship by examining the gross provincial product of 76
provinces to test the hypothesis that the service sector is a
growth engine in the Thai economy... |
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ADB |
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The Lao Economy: Capitalizing on Natural Resource Exports,
January 2013. Trade and investment reforms in the Lao
People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) since the mid-1980s have
boosted natural resource-based exports, underpinning recent
economic growth. A high proportion of the proceeds from these
exports accrue directly to the government. Over the 8 years
preceding 2011, total government revenue increased from 11% to
over 19% of gross domestic product, due almost entirely to
revenues derived from mining and hydropower. The effect on the
Lao people depends on how the government uses these revenues.
This paper examines how the Lao PDR’s export-led growth can be
channeled into directions that deliver the greatest benefit to
the Lao people. |
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ADB |
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New Contributor:
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI),
content up in several stages. |
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ASPI |
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Terms of Engagement: Australia's Regional Defence Diplomacy,
July 2013. This major study of Australian defence engagement
is authored by Sam Bateman, Anthony Bergin and Hayley Channer.
Australia is in the process of pivoting back to our own region
and looking for new strategies for Defence re-engagement. But
the Defence Cooperation Program hasn’t been scrutinised in any
dep... |
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ASPI |
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Something New under the Rising Sun: Expanding Australia–Japan
Defence Cooperation, June 2013.
A number of recent policy documents signal the Australian
Government’s intent to deepen defence engagement in the
Asia–Pacific. This paper considers current defence relations
between Australia and Japan and looks at reasons and
opportunities for increased engagement and cooperation,
including in the area... |
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ASPI |
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Australia and the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative:
Difficult Times for Disarmament Diplomacy, May 2013.
Australia recognises the critical role that the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons plays in preventing
uncontrolled proliferation and promoting disarmament, and
upholding the treaty has long been a core foreign policy goal.
However Australia's disarmament diplomacy has hit a difficult
patch. This pa... |
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ASPI |
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China's Response to the US in Contemporary Asia, April 2013.
The paper evaluates official Chinese commentary and media
coverage on US activity in Asia from November 2011 to January
2013. Understanding the nuances of China’s differentiated
response from the time of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s
2011 ‘America’s Pacific Century’ essay in For... |
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ASPI |
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Strategic Interests and Australian Grand Strategy, February 2013.
The newly-released National Security Strategy provides good
coverage of broad security issues, but could have given a more
expansive worldview. Previous Defence White Papers have shown
our approach to national strategic interests has been narrow and
reactive rather than broad and proactive. The authors suggest
there... |
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ASPI |
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Making Waves: Australian Ocean Development Assistance, September
2012.
Australia has a vital national interest in the management of its
adjacent oceans and seas. This paper argues for ocean
development to be a key strategic goal of our increased aid
investments. In particular, it recommends that AusAID fund key
features of the follow-on to Australia's successful Defence ... |
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ASPI |
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Australian Defence Almanac, authored by Raspal Khosa, is a
unique publication that brings together a wealth of information
across the full-range of Defence activity in a single,
easy-to-use reference source. It is an up-to-date, fact-filled
resource that places otherwise difficult to find Defence
information at the reader’s fingertips and presents it in a
transparent, highly readable form.
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Facing the Dragon: China Policy in a New Era, May 2013.
Recapping the dramatic Whitlam-Nixon openings to China of the
1970s—in which he participated—Ross Terrill’s new study finds
fascinating themes for China policy today. Our Asia–Pacific
region prospers, but the seas off China are not tranquil.
American policies protect Australia, but they worry... |
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ASPI |
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Planning the Unthinkable War: 'AirSea Battle' and its
Implications for Australia, April 2013. The publication,
written by ASPI’s senior analyst in defence strategy Benjamin
Schreer, analyses the US military’s new ‘AirSea Battle’ concept.
In the Asia-Pacific region, the concept is primarily designed to
counter China’s growing military power. The paper says Australia
does not have... |
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ASPI |
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Strategic Contours: The Rise of Asia and Australian Strategic
Policy, July 2012. This report, authored by Rod Lyon, is a
new assessment of the rise of Asia and its impact on Australian
strategic policy. It provides an in-depth strategic assessment
of a region where the dominant strategic condition is neither
cooperation nor competition, but a strange blend of both—‘coopetit... |
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ASPI |
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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Indonesia's Arduous Path of
Reform, January 2012. Australians have long worried about
whether Indonesia is ‘special’ or ‘normal’. Instead, we need to
deal with Indonesia as it really is—a country experiencing
simultaneously the challenges of political reform, economic
development and a shifting regional security environment. The
countr... |
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ASPI |
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Beyond bin Laden: Future Trends in Terrorism, December 2011.
This Strategy report examines the shifting patterns of global
terrorism. It is the first major ASPI report on terrorism since
the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011. The report provides a
comprehensive assessment of the geographic, operational and
ideological trends that are driving the current wave of ji... |
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ASPI |
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Our Near Abroad: Australia and Pacific Islands Regionalism,
November 2011.
This report, authored by Richard Herr and Anthony Bergin,
suggests that with rising Chinese influence in the region, the
US appears to doubt that Australia can deliver on South Pacific
issues. The Pacific Island members of the United Nations now
meet under the rubric of the Pacific Small Islands Developing
Sta... |
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ASPI |
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Forks in the River: Australia's Strategic Options in a
Transformational Asia, June 2011.
This report, authored by Rod Lyon, argues that Australia will be
drawn increasingly to grow its strategic engagement with Asian
partners. An Asian engagement strategy should sit alongside our
existing policies of alliance and self-reliance to provide a
complementary set of approaches to enhancing Australian int... |
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ASPI |
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Changing Pace: ASPI's Strategic Assessment 2011, February 2011.
This report provides an in-depth strategic assessment of a world
where the pace of change appears to be accelerating. The
relative slippage in US power, and the broader decline of
Western influence, portend an era of fraying global leadership.
The assessment suggests Australia will have to worry about two
strategi... |
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ASPI |
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Regionalism and Community: Australia's Options in the
Asia-Pacific, November 2010. This report, authored by
Philomena Murray, explores the challenges of building a stronger
‘community’ in the Asia-Pacific. It does so by using a
‘comparative regionalism’ approach, drawing upon the lessons of
region-building efforts elsewhere. Philomena argues in this
paper... |
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ASPI |
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Southeast Asia: Patterns of Security Cooperation, September 2010.
Strategically, Southeast Asia sits at the intersection of the
wider world and Australia’s local neighbourhood; what happens
there matters to Australia. But the broader Asian security
environment is in flux, and an era of strategic quiescence in
Southeast Asia may be drawing to a close. Security trends
there... |
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ASPI |
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How Important are Exports and Foreign Direct Investment for
Economic Growth in the People's Republic of China? July 2013.
The global financial crisis and the recent growth slowdown in
the People's Republic of China (PRC) have led to questions about
the sustainability of the PRC's growth. The commonly used
argument is that the PRC is too dependent on external demand and
that it needs to rebalance its economy toward domestic
consumption. However, conventional measures of external
demand—share of net exports and exports as a share of gross
domestic product (GDP)—are biased and do not accurately measure
the contribution of external demand to GDP growth... |
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ADB |
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Pacific Economic Monitor, July 2013. This edition of the
Pacific Economic Monitor updates 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 regional cooperation and integration. |
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ADB |
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Cross-Border Price Differentials and Goods Market Integration in
East Asia, June 2013. As cross-border
movements of goods, capital, and labor are intensifying, it is
likely that goods markets in East Asia will become increasingly
integrated. This study investigates the current state of goods
market integration in East Asia by measuring the extent of
cross-border price differentials. Specifically, this study shows
that compared with the European Union, East Asian markets are
neither sufficiently integrated nor are they showing any price
convergence over time. |
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ADB |
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The Service Sector in India, June 2013.
The service sector is the largest and fastest growing sector in
India and has the highest labor productivity, but employment has
not kept pace with the share of the sector in gross domestic
product and has not produced the number or quality of jobs
needed. There is no policy leading to inclusive growth, and
multiple, uncoordinated governing bodies adversely affect the
growth of the sector. Many regulations are outdated, and there
are restrictions and barriers on foreign direct investment... |
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ADB |
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Asian Capital Market Integration: Theory and Evidence, June 2013.
This paper assesses the progress achieved thus far in capital
market integration in Asia, and compares regional capital market
integration with global financial integration. The study also
assesses the degree to which volatility in equity- and
bond-market returns driven by financial turmoil originating at
both the regional and global levels spills over into emerging
Asia domestic equity and bond markets... |
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ADB |
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Effects of Quantitative Easing on Asia: Capital Flows and
Financial Markets, June 2013. This paper
studies the effects of the United States’ (US) quantitative
easing on Asia by examining capital flows and financial markets.
After the global financial crisis, Asian economies with more
open and developed capital markets experienced greater swings in
capital inflows. In particular, large capital flows were
manifest more in portfolio investment and other investment such
as bank loans than in foreign direct investment. Empirical
analysis shows quantitative easing, in particular the first
round, significantly contributed to the rebounding of capital
inflows to the region after the onset of the crisis by lowering
domestic yield rates as well as credit default swap premiums... |
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The Social Protection Index: Assessing Results for Asia and the
Pacific, Published 2013. This report analyzes comprehensive
2009 data on government social protection programs in 35
countries in Asia and the Pacific. The Asian Development Bank (ADB)
used its Social Protection Index to help assess the nature and
the effectiveness of these programs, as well as to facilitate
cross-country comparisons... |
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ADB |
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Low-Carbon Green Growth in Asia - Policies and Practices,
Published 2013. Asia is at a crossroads.
As the world's most populous region, with a rising share of
global greenhouse gas emissions, and as the region most
vulnerable to climate risks, this book recognizes low-carbon
green growth is imperative for developing Asia. It reviews
low-carbon policy initiatives taken by Asian countries at the
national, sectoral, and local levels, while assessing the
achievements, identifying the gaps, and examining new
opportunities. |
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ADB |
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Same Energy, More Power: Accelerating Energy Efficiency in Asia,
Published 2013 |
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ADB |
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Pacific Energy Update 2013, Published 2013 |
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ADB |
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New Energy Architecture: Myanmar, Published 2013 |
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ADB |
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Lao People's Democratic Republic: Energy Sector Assessment,
Strategy, and Road Map 2013 Update, Publisehd 2013 |
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ADB |
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Fiji: Update, June 2013 |
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ADB |
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Gender Tool Kit: Transport - Maximizing the Benefits of Improved
Mobility for All, Published 2013 |
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ADB |
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Guidebook: Increasing Climate Change Resilience of Urban Water
Infrastructure, Published 2013. |
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ADB |
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Bhutan Transport 2040: Integrated Strategic Vision, Published
2013 |
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ADB |
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Japanese
Historical Reconciliation Should Begin at Home with Okinawa,
June 2013.
Somei Kobayashi, recent Japan Studies Visiting Fellow at the
East-West Center in Washington, explains that "Japan-Okinawa
historical reconciliation that is premised on human rights could
become a prototype for historical reconciliation between Japan
and other Asian states." |
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EWC |
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Australia and
India: Indo-Pacific Partners, June 2013.
David Brewster, Visiting Fellow at the Strategic and Defense
Studies Center, Australian National University, explains that
"The development of the India-Australia relationship is
consistent with Washington's objectives for both countries to
take a more active security role in the Indian Ocean and can
also be seen as part of a slow tilt by India towards the US
security sphere." |
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EWC |
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Malaysia's
Election and Najib’s Challenged Mandate, June 2013.
Bridget Welsh, Associate Professor of Political Science at the
Singapore Management University, explains that "Najib now faces
multiple challenges, from electoral legitimacy and inclusive
national representation across ethnic communities and classes,
to building confidence in political institutions and engaging a
more demanding citizen." |
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EWC |
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South Korea's
Response to Human Rights Abuses in North Korea: An Analysis of
Policy Options, June 2013.
For decades, North Korea has been the site of brutal human
rights violations, leaving the international community
struggling to develop an effective response. This has been a
particular policy dilemma in South Korea, where people are
deeply sympathetic to those suffering, but are equally concerned
about security and unification. In recent years, South Korea’s
policy response has been characterized by partisan divisions and
bitter disputes. The debate has centered on efforts to pass a
North Korean Human Rights Act, and the question of whether the
South Korean National Human Rights Commission should address
issues in the North. As the Park Geun Hye administration
establishes policy, four principles should guide the process:
avoid using North Korean human rights as a partisan political
tool; concentrate on promoting multilateral initiatives;
mainstream attention to North Korean rights issues within all
relevant South Korean agencies; and ensure that the focus on
North Korea does not distract from needed attention to domestic
rights issues. |
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EWC |
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The Lowy Institute Poll 2013: Australia and the World.
The ninth annual Lowy Institute Poll reports the results of a nationally
representative survey of 1,002 Australian adults conducted by mobile and
fixed-line telephone in Australia between 4 and 20 March 2013. The 2013
Poll rated the major political parties on a range of key foreign policy
issues in the lead-up to the 2013 election. Other significant issues
covered in the Poll include: the comparative importance of China and the
United States to Australia; support for the US alliance and US bases;
attitudes towards China, the economy, boat arrivals and offshore
processing; support for action on climate change, and views on the
Afghanistan war, WikiLeaks and terrorism. |
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Lowy |
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Saving Multilateralism: The G20, the WTO, and Global Trade, June 2013.
As the world’s premier international economic forum, the G20 should take
a keen interest in the maintenance of a robust multilateral trading
system. Although the initial leaders’ summits did make strong references
to the importance of maintaining open markets and completing the Doha
Round of trade negotiations, subsequent meetings have seen trade slide
down the agenda. Meanwhile, the multilateral trading system appears to
be losing relevance as leading economies contemplate new, mega-regional
trade agreements that would see global rules set outside the WTO... |
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Lowy |
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Great
Southern Lands: Building Ties between Australia and Brazil, Published
2013.
This report brings together four essays from Australian and Brazilian
authors that collectively aim to shed some light on Brazil and its
future importance to Australia and the world. It presents a series of
perspectives on the modern Brazilian economy, its economic history, its
ties with Australia, and its place in the world economy... |
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Lowy |
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APEC Cooperative Energy Efficiency Design for Sustainability
(CEEDS); Phase 4, June 2013. Phase 4 of
the APEC Cooperative Energy Efficiency Design for Sustainability
(CEEDS) project focused on Energy Service Company (ESCO).
Previous phases of CEEDS addressed appliance energy standards
and labeling (Phase 1), building energy codes (Phase 2) and
energy-efficient urban passenger transportation (Phase 3). All
three topics are among the high-performance policies identified
as having the potential to help APEC economies achieve the
energy savings goals adopted by APEC leaders... |
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APEC |
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APEC Economic and Technical Cooperation, June 2013
provides a quick overview of APEC’s ECOTECH
capacity building projects and activities. Economic and
Technical Cooperation (ECOTECH) is aimed at fostering
sustainable and inclusive growth and development in the
Asia-Pacific and improving overall economic and social
well-being of all citizens living across the APEC region. |
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APEC |
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Workshop "Best Practices on Educating Food Safety Standards to
SMEs", May 2013. This workshop became an
unprecedented meeting to discuss the importance of SMEs in the
safety of food being supplied, produced, traded and consumed by
APEC economies. It became apparent that SMEs receive awareness,
education and training in food safety to enable better adherence
and conformity to regulations. |
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APEC |
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Green Public Procurement in the Asia Pacific Region: Challenges
and Opportunities for Green Growth and Trade, April 2013.
This report reviews and analyzes the progress of Green Public
Procurement (GPP) policies, challenges and opportunities in APEC
economies in the context of green growth and promotion of trade
in environmental goods and services (EGS). It includes the
elaboration of a database of environmental criteria of eight
groups of products. The information considered in this study has
been gathered through questionnaires and bibliography review. |
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APEC |
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Guidelines for Climate Proofing Investment in the Energy Sector,
May 2013 provides a step-by-step
methodological approach to help project teams assess and
incorporate climate change adaptation measures into energy
investment projects. While the focus of the guidelines is at the
project level, an improved understanding of climate change
impacts should also be used to incorporate climate change
considerations into energy planning and policy at the country
level. |
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ADB |
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Developing South Asia: Lessons & Insights, Published 2013
showcases eight projects that delivered
exemplary and significant results in their implementation. These
projects represent various sectors such as energy, urban
development, transport, information and communications
technology, irrigation, and disaster risk reduction... |
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ADB |
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On the Use of FTAs: A Review of Research Methodologies, May 2013.
There has been much confusion, rather than debate, on the use of
free trade agreements (FTAs). Unfortunately, a large part of the
confusion is caused by the absence of consensus on the meaning
of key terms such as the “utilization rate” and “usage rate” of
FTAs, and the lack of knowledge on upward or downward biases
from various information sources regarding the use of FTAs.
Rather than making an original empirical contribution, this
article reviews existing studies on the issue and attempts to
identify the relevant methodologies for assessing the use of
FTAs. |
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ADB |
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Supporting the Growth and Spread of International Production
Networks in Asia: How Can Trade Policy Help? May 2013.
Free trade agreements (FTAs) have been proliferating in Asia for
more than a decade. International fragmentation of production
and the resultant cross-border production networks have been
growing for a much longer period. Although FTAs are not
necessary for the formation of production networks, can they
support their further growth or spread? Empirical studies of
this issue have produced mixed results, presumably because the
causality can run either way. Therefore, this paper employs a
qualitative approach that carefully examines the characteristics
of both product fragmentation trade and FTAs in Asia to
ascertain possible linkages. We find the relationship to be
tenuous
for a number of reasons... |
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ADB |
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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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IJKS |
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International Journal of Korean Studies,
Volume XVI, Number 1, 2012
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IJKS |
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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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ISDP |
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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 |
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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,
2013 |
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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
- the
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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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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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 |
|
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 |
|
PIDS |
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The Philippines and East Asia: Building on Partnerships
to Take Part in the Region's Dynamism, December 2012 |
|
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 |
|
PIDS |
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Perceptions and Laws on Unfair Trade Practices in the
Philippines, December 2012 |
|
PIDS |
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The Urgent Need to Increase Baseload Generating Capacity
in Mindanao, November 2012 |
|
PIDS |
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Should the Philippines Tariffy its Quantitative
Restriction on Rice? October 2012 |
|
PIDS |
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Typhoons, Floods, and Droughts: Regional Occurrence and
Value of Damages to Rice Farming in the Philippines,
September 2012 |
|
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." |
|
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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APEC |
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2013 |
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How Foreign Direct Investment Promotes Development: The Case of
the People's Republic of China’s Inward and Outward FDI,
February 2013.
This paper gives a brief introduction to the PRC’s inward and
outward FDI, including their determinants, motives, main
characteristics, and impact on the PRC and host countries.
Inward FDI contributes to the PRC’s economic growth and industry
development, increases tax revenue, and improves labor quality.
The contribution of inward FDI to gross domestic product
averages around 3%–6%. At the same time, outward FDI improves
the PRC’s dynamic efficiency, and helps the host countries with
capital inflow and infrastructure improvement. |
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ADB |
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Financial Conditions Indexes for Asian Economies, January 2013.
Financial conditions indexes (FCIs) are constructed for five
Asian economies, namely, Hong Kong, China; Japan; the Republic
of Korea; Malaysia; and Singapore, using a principal component
analysis (PCA) methodology from Hatzius et al. (2010) and
quarterly data. Various financial stress indicators are
included, allowing the constructed Financial Condition Index to
capture important episodes in each economy’s financial
history... |
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ADB |
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Economic Impact of Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis on Developing
Asia, January 2013.
The European Union (EU) has traditionally been an important
economic partner for Asia. In addition to absorbing a
significant share of the region’s exports, the EU has been a
major source of foreign direct investment and other capital
flows into the region. In light of such close economic linkages
between the EU and Asia, the euro crisis will undoubtedly
influence Asia’s short-term macroeconomic outlook. The key
question, however, is how big the impact will be. This paper
tries to answer this by examining both the trade and financial
channels of crisis transmission... |
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ADB |
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Protestantism and Human Capital in Guatemala and the Republic of
Korea, January 2013.
Protestant missions from the United States entered the Republic
of Korea and Guatemala at the same time (1884 and 1882,
respectively). Yet, their impact on human capital has been
divergent. The analysis presented in this paper supports the
findings of Woodberry (2004, 2009, 2011) and Nunn (2009) in the
case of the Republic of Korea... |
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ADB |
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Myanmar's Trade and its Potential, January 2013.
The paper tabulates Myanmar's merchandise trade as reported by
its partner countries, thereby circumventing the data
constraints stemming from Myanmar's patchy trade records. It
then estimates Myanmar’s export potential, based on the
bilateral export patterns observed for six other countries in
Southeast Asia. Against that benchmark and controlling for
outliers, Myanmar is found to be trading at about 15% its
potential... |
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ADB |
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Truth to
Power: Japanese Media, International Media and 3.11
Reportage, March 2013 |
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APJ |
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Human
Rights, Memory and Reconciliation: Korea-Japan
Relations, March 2013 |
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APJ |
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The US
Military, Green Energy, and the SPIDERS at Pearl Harbor,
March 2013 |
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APJ |
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China-Japan Territorial Conflicts and the US-Japan-China
Relations in Historical and Contemporary Perspective,
March 2013 |
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APJ |
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The
Aftermath of the Emperor-Organ Incident: the Tōdai
Faculty of Law, February 2013 |
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APJ |
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The
Sihanouk Era: The King and I, February 2013 |
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APJ |
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Straight
Outta Ichimiya: The Appeal of a Rural Japanese Rapper,
February 2013 |
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APJ |
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Proposals for Japan and the ROK to Resolve the "Comfort
Women" Issue: Creating trust and peace in light of
international law, January 2013 |
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APJ |
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Okinawa's Henoko was a “storage location” for nuclear
weapons: published accounts, January 2013 |
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APJ |
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ANYUAN:
Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition, January 2013 |
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APJ |
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China's
Energy Industrial Revolution (Part 2), January 2013 |
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APJ |
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Getting
to Zero: Doing the Nuclear Math about Japan's Ageing
Reactors, December 2012 |
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APJ |
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Deconstructing Japan's Claim of Sovereignty over the
Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, December 2012 |
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APJ |
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Power of
the Korean Film Producer: Park Chung Hee's Forgotten
Film Cartel of the 1960s Golden Decade and its Legacy,
December 2012 |
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APJ |
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China's
Industrial Energy Revolution: Renewable targets just
became even more demanding (Part 1), December 2012 |
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APJ |
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Abe Days
Are Here Again: Japan in the World, December 2012 |
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APJ |
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Asia Bond
Monitor, March 2013. The Asia Bond
Monitor (ABM) reviews recent developments in East Asian local
currency bond markets along with outlook, risks, and policy
challenges. It covers the 10 members of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus the People's Republic of
China; Hong Kong, China; and the Republic of Korea. "The Asian
Bond Monitor has become the definitive guide to the development
and structure of the emerging East Asian bond markets. As such,
it is essential reading for anyone involved or interested in
this increasingly important and rapidly growing asset class." -
Geoffrey Lunt, Senior Product Specialist, Asian Fixed Income,
HSBC Global Asset Management (Hong Kong) Ltd. |
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ADB |
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Asian
Economic Integration Monitor, March 2013.
The Asian Economic Integration Monitor is a semiannual review of
Asia’s regional economic cooperation and integration. This issue
includes a special chapter - Multilateralizing Asian
Regionalism: Approaches to Unraveling the Asian Noodle Bowl. |
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ADB |
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Emerging Geopolitical Trends and Security in the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations, the People's Republic of China, and
India (ACI) Region, March 2013. This
paper provides an assessment of the region's unfolding
geopolitical transformation in recent years and asks if the
regional structures in Asia can cope with it. The paper also
explores the problems of integrating the two rising Asian
powers, the PRC and India, into the structures of global
governance. It concludes with a brief discussion on the
strategic policy imperatives facing the ACI region. |
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ADB |
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Asian Development Bank Trade Finance Survey: Major Findings,
March 2013. Findings from this survey
suggest that trade finance gaps exist and need to be addressed
because of the strong links between trade finance, business
expansion, and job creation. It also underscores the importance
of further study and collaboration among multilateral
development banks, government, financial institutions, and
companies to ensure maximum financial support to trade is
available, given that the interlinked component parts of trade
finance, business expansion, and jobs need coordination to
create as much growth and poverty reduction as possible. |
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ADB |
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Managing Reforms for Development: Political Economy of Reforms
and Policy-Based Lending Case Studies, Published 2013.
The book's intended readers are development practitioners
involved in the policy reform process. It aims to help them
understand political economy factors that shape actual outcomes,
and to simplify the complexities of policy reform and the loans
and technical assistance that support such reform. |
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ADB |
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Economics of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in South Asia:
Options and Costs, Published 2013. This
report synthesizes the results of national studies on options
and costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in five South
Asia DMCs—Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri
Lanka. |
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ADB |
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Asian Water Development Outlook 2013: Measuring Water Security
in Asia and the Pacific, Published 2013.
This second edition of the Asian Water Development Outlook (AWDO)
provides the first quantitative and comprehensive view of water
security in the countries of Asia and the Pacific. By focusing
on critical water issues, AWDO 2013 provides finance and
planning leaders with recommendations on policy actions to
improve water governance and guidance on investments to increase
their country's water security. |
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ADB |
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WaterWealth? Investing in Basin Management in Asia and the
Pacific, Published 2013. Drawing on a
cross-section of 43 case studies prepared specially for this
book, WaterWealth explains the challenges to improving water
governance and management across Asia and the Pacific region. It
illustrates many examples of new approaches and practices
already being applied by basin managers to secure water for all. |
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ADB |
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Report to the President Office of Anticorruption and Integrity:
Annual Report 2012, Published 2013. This
publication highlights OAI’s efforts in 2012 to ensure that
ADB’s development funds are used with regard to value for money
for their intended purposes, and not usurped through fraudulent
or corrupt practices. |
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ADB |
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Grading Europe
in the Asia-Pacific: European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2013,
February 2013.
Jonas Parello-Plesner, Senior Policy Fellow at the European
Council on Foreign Relations, explains that "On issues of trade
and economics, the EU is clearly showing that is has a strategy
that it is implementing." |
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EWC |
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Regulatory Reform: Case Studies on Green Investments, February
2013.
The report includes 12 case studies on the implementation of
regulatory policies of selected APEC economies in order to draw
lessons on regulatory reform, by analysing different experiences
in formulating and implementing policies to improve energy
efficiency and promote renewable energy technologies in
particular sectors... |
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APEC |
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Training for Trainers on Intellectual Property Issues:
Management and Commercialization, February 2013.
This project addresses the issues of capacity building enhancing
and experience sharing for IP-related sphere by holding
‘Training for trainers’. The workshop findings and the workshop
proceedings are presented in this report... |
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APEC |
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SMEs' Participation in Global Production Chains, February 2013.
Rising globalization and economic integration have enabled SMEs
to increase their contributions to the region’s development
through greater participation in global production chains (GPCs).
More and more SMEs are engaged in activities that link up with
multi-national corporations, providing intermediate goods or
services that are used to build the final products. SMEs’
participation in GPCs yields substantial benefits; however,
currently the level of SMEs participation in GPCs is still quite
low... |
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APEC |
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Inadequate Regional Financial Safety Nets Reflect Complacency,
March 2013.
To the extent that financial contagion from the United States
and the euro area crisis has occurred in Asia, this paper
focuses on the importance of strengthening the regional
financial safety nets. By conjecturing that efforts to prevent
and manage a crisis are the essence of providing such safety
nets, the author argues that efforts made by ASEAN+3 officials,
especially in the provision of liquidity support during a
crisis, are far from adequate... |
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ADB |
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Understanding Innovation in Production Networks in East Asia,
March 2013.
This paper explores the "black box" of innovation in the
electronics production network in East Asia through a mapping
exercise of technological capabilities and an econometric
analysis of exporting in the People's Republic of China (PRC),
Thailand, and the Philippines. Technology-based approaches to
trade offer a plausible explanation for firm-level exporting
behavior and complement the literature on production networks... |
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ADB |
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Supervision of Financial Market Infrastructures in Singapore,
January 2013. The monograph describes MAS’ approach in
supervising financial market infrastructures (“FMI”) in
Singapore to foster their safety and efficiency. It updates and
replaces the 2004 monograph on MAS’ Roles and Responsibilities
in Relation to Securities Clearing and Settlement Systems in
Singapore. |
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MAS |
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Patterns of
Free Trade Areas in Asia, Published 2013.
The study identifies for policymakers how best to minimize the
costs of FTAs while maximizing their benefits. It reexamines key
trends and challenges in Asian FTAs and offers new information
from analysis of FTAs, economic models, and firm surveys. This
analysis supports strengthening business support for FTAs;
rationalizing rules of origin and upgrading their
administration; expanded coverage of agricultural and services
trade; forging comprehensive "WTO-plus" agreements; and
encouraging a region-wide FTA. The analysis suggests a bottom-up
approach to global trade liberalization as a complement to WTO
processes |
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EWC |
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The Elusive
Nature of North Korean Reform, February 2013.
The new leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, appears to be
fostering a new political enthusiasm for reform. Is this all
theatrics? Or does it signify a substantive policy shift? Reform
is possible: Kim Jong-un may have the necessary resolve to
successfully push reform; officials associated with the last
reform attempt are still present and may truly be able to bring
lessons learned to bear on a new reform effort; and,
importantly, both China and South Korea are likely to be
supportive of a sincere attempt at reform... |
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EWC |
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How Emerging
Forms of Capitalism Are Changing the Global Economic Order,
February 2013.
The US model of free-market capitalism has been a dominant force
in the post-communist world order, setting the agenda for
economic governance and development. That supremacy, however,
was severely tarnished by the 2008 global financial crisis,
increasing the potential for new challenges from alternative
economic models. Now, models of capitalism espousing more state
involvement as practiced in Brazil, Russia, India, and,
especially, in China are contenders on the political economic
landscape of the world... |
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EWC |
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Reef and
Relations: Is the Philippines-US Alliance Finally Maturing?
February 2013.
Julio S. Amador III, Foreign Affairs Research Specialist at the
Foreign Service Institute of the Philippines, explains that the
recent grounding in Filipino waters of the USS Guardian, "[s]hows
just how delicate managing alliances can be, and the response by
the Filipino and US governments also demonstrates a level of
maturity in managing the issue." |
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EWC |
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Sri Lanka's
Ongoing Shift to Authoritarianism, February 2013.
Neil DeVotta, Associate Professor at Wake Forest University,
discusses how "[S]ri Lanka is clearly moving towards an
entrenched brand of political authoritarianism under Mahinda
Rajapaksa and his cronies." |
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EWC |
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China's
Intervention in the Myanmar-Kachin Peace Talks, February 2013.
Yun Sun, Visiting Fellow with the John L. Thornton China Center
at the Brookings Institution, explains that "[t]hese latest
talks set a new precedent because of the central role that China
played in the process and signify a major intervention by
Beijing that is unique." |
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EWC |
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Impact of the ASEAN Economic Community on ASEAN Production
Networks, February 2013.
Empirical evidence suggests that the emergence of international
production networks in East Asia results from market-driven
forces such as vertical specialization and higher production
costs in the home countries and institutional-led reasons such
as free trade agreements. This paper examines two
industries—autos and auto parts, and hard disk drives (HDDs)—to
understand international production networks... |
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ADB |
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Hot Money Flows, Commodity Price Cycles, and Financial
Repression in the US and the People's Republic of China: The
Consequences of Near Zero US Interest Rates, January 2013.
R. McKinnon and Z. Liu explain why near zero US interest rates
are bad for the US and the rest of the world... |
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ADB |
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The Threat of Financial Contagion to Emerging Asia's Local Bond
Markets: Spillovers from Global Crises, January 2013.
I. J. Azis, et al look at shock and volatility spillovers from
mature bond markets into select Asian local currency bond
markets and discuss implications for the monitoring and policy
coordination... |
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ADB |
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Critical Review of East Asia - South America Trade, January 2013.
S. Hamanaka and A. Tafgar examine whether trade between East
Asia and South America is a general phenomenon, a
country-specific, or a commodity-specific issue, and whether
increased trade is due to diversification, price effects, and/or
quantity effects... |
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ADB |
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A New Regime of SME Finance in Emerging Asia: Empowering
Growth-Oriented SMEs to Build Resilient National Economies,
December 2012.
S. Shinozaki reviews possible financing modalities to improve
small- and medium-scale enterprise (SME) access to finance,
considering Asia's bank-centered financial system... |
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ADB |
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Chinese Southern Diaspora
Studies, Volume 5, 2011-2012:
Chinese in Singapore |
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CSDS/
ANU |
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APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules System Implementation: Peru,
February 2013.
This Report reviews the data privacy framework in Peru and
considers an approach for an Accountability Agent and the
Enforcement Authority that would be consistent with Peru’s
domestic legal regime and its historic approach to regulation. |
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APEC |
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Transport, Energy and Environmental Benefits of Intermodal
Freight Strategies, Final Report, February 2013.
This report provides a summary of the project findings. The
project investigated the benefits of using intermodal approaches
to the movement of freight in urban settings as a means of
improving energy efficiency and reducing the emission of
greenhouse gases. |
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APEC |
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Access to Trade and Growth of Women's SMEs in APEC Developing
Economies, February 2013.
Research for this project aimed to highlight the complex array
of factors affecting women in business through a mix of
quantitative and qualitative methods. A quantitative survey
targeted SME owners in domestic and exporting firms, half of
whom were women. Qualitative methods included focus group
discussions, semi-structured interviews and case studies. |
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APEC |
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Enhanced Capacity Building for Food Safety Risk Assessment in
Asia-Pacific, February 2013.
This report summarizes the research work under the above APEC
project which, amongst others, aims to share the experiences and
lessons in the field of food safety risk assessment among APEC
and non-APEC economies. |
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APEC |
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Economic Impact of Submarine Cable Disruptions, February 2013.
The present study and the economic impact model serve to fulfill
the goals of the APEC Supply Chain Connectivity Framework Action
Plan, resolved by the APEC member economies, which contains
under its Chokepoint 7 the protection of submarine cables. |
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APEC |
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APEC Energy Demand and Supply Outlook, February 2013
covering
Australia,
Brunei Darussalam,
Canada,
Chile,
China,
Hong Kong,
Indonesia,
Japan,
Korea,
Malaysia,
Mexico,
New
Zealand,
Papua New
Guinea,
Peru,
Philippines,
Russia,
Singapore,
Chinese
Taipei,
Thailand,
United States and
Viet Nam. |
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APEC |
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2013 |
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Hong
Kong: High Frequency Macroeconomic Forecasts Current
Quarter Model: 2013Q2, April 2013.
The worst time of European debt crisis might have been
over. The recovery of the US economy seems gathering
steam. The low interest rate environment will likely
continue through 2015. China's economy is expected to
rebound a bit. Under these conditions, real GDP is
forecast to increase by 3.5 to 4.3 percent for 2013.
Consumer inflation is expected to be mild and the labour
market stable in the upcoming quarters... |
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HKU |
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Promoting Democracy in Myanmar: Political Party Capacity
Building, February 2013.
Democratization in Myanmar started officially in March 2011.
The President and the speakers of the parliament have often
urged the population to actively participate in this
historic period in Myanmar. In order to support democracy,
there are many important stakeholders: the government,
parliament, political parties, civil society and media. This
paper highlights the importance of the political parties in
the country and their role as the creators of the future of
the country... |
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ISDP |
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Europe and China in Africa: Common Interests and/or
Different Approaches? January 2013.
Emerging economies are increasingly looking to secure access
to resources abroad. The most visible of these efforts can
be seen in the expansion of Chinese activities in Africa.
The initial responses were often critical of Chinese
activities. They were seen as a threat to European and other
Western interests. Such viewpoints often ignored the African
perspectives and the similarly dubious practices
accompanying Western interventions in Africa. This paper
seeks to overcome this dichotomy and to contribute to the
growing number of analyses on the subject that take a more
nuanced approach and critically explore different kinds of
interventions... |
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ISDP |
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China's Risk Equation: Using Military Forces in
International Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
Activities, January 2013. China’s
first use of its military forces to undertake international
humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) mission
was in 2002. Since then it has been involved in 12 missions
involving several hundred personnel. Given that HADR
missions are usually viewed as a benign use of military
forces and generate benefits for both the assisting state as
well as the affected state, it would seem self evident that
it is in China’s best interest to rapidly expand its HADR
involvement. However, this simple analysis fails to consider
that military involvement in HADR can have significant
down-side risks. For example, tensions could increase if
Chinese HADR efforts become characterized as cynical
advancement of its maritime power projection agenda, or seen
as camouflage for acquiring more expeditionary
capabilities... |
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ISDP |
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Chinese Official Negotiators: Mindset and Practice, December
2012. Four types of Chinese official
negotiators are identified in terms of their negotiating
mindset and practice: the avoiding negotiator, the
accommodative negotiator, the persuading negotiator and the
problem-solving negotiators. The evolution is explained from
four perspectives: traditional Confucian culture,
revolutionary culture, Chinese bureaucracy and international
conventions. It is shown that with the fading of
revolutionary culture, the resurgence of traditional culture
and the deepening of the course of opening up, Chinese
negotiators will tend to be more of the problem-solving
type, who conduct negotiation in order to advance both
China’s national interests and the interests of
international community. |
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ISDP |
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China's Foreign Policy Dilemma, February 2013. In
this Analysis, Linda Jakobson writes foreign policy will not be a top
priority of China's new leaders because they must focus on immense
domestic problems. Therefore Chinese foreign policy can be expected to
be reactive. This may have serious consequences because of the
potentially explosive nature of two of China's most pressing foreign
policy challenges: how to decrease tensions with Japan and with
Southeast Asian states over diverse territorial claims in the East and
South China Seas... |
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Lowy |
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Economic Stability and Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes, February
2013.
This paper emphasizes the importance of Europe's structural
problems and governance as the cause of the current euro area
crisis. The euro may have led to bubbles, but member economies
were not free of trouble before the euro. Many members were
losing competitiveness and in need of removing structural
rigidities. If anything, the euro was expected to encourage
structural reform, by taking away the easy choice of monetary
and fiscal expansion... |
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ADB |
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Financing Development Cooperation in Northeast Asia, February
2013.
The paper finds that total infrastructure investment needs for
Northeast Asia excluding Japan and the Republic of Korea (in
transport, energy, information and communication technology, and
the environment) could be $63 billion per year over the next 10
years. Of this total, $13 billion would have to be mobilized
every year from external sources. The paper considers three
options to fund these needs in addition to traditional financing
by bilateral and multilateral agencies ... |
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ADB |
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APEC Smart City Industrial Technology Cooperation Forum, Final
Report, February 2013.
This report presents the findings of the above forum and APEC
project, “Building Smart Cites of APEC Economies”. One of
project's objectives is to create a framework for cooperation
between APEC economies’ smart technology industry such as smart
healthcare, smart ... |
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APEC |
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Promotion of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in Low
Carbon Model Town of APEC through Distributed Energy Source-
Identification of Potential, Challenges and Solutions, January
2013.
This report summarizes the findings of the above project which
aimed to study and identify the potential, challenges and
solutions for application of distributed energy sources in
promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy in low carbon
model towns of APEC. |
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APEC |
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Energy Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Practices in
APEC Economies, February 2013.
In the study, a general energy performance evaluation
methodology for industrial enterprises will be developed based
on summary and analysis on energy performance evaluation
methodologies and practices in APEC economies, to facilitate the
implementation of EnMS, establish a long-term energy ... |
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APEC |
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Automated Transport Management Systems Implementation for
Optimizing Logistics within the Asia-Pacific with an Emphasis on
ITS and GNSS Application, Published 2013.
This study provides a general overview of the transportation and
freight flow management and monitoring systems (SMM)
implementation and operation experiences in APEC economies. |
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APEC |
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APEC Workshop on Food Security: Innovative Approaches for the
Implementation of APEC Food Security Action Plan, Published 2012.
The key objective of the Workshop was to sustain and improve
efficiency in the development of the current agricultural sector
and safeguard agricultural trade in support of Food Security. |
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APEC |
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APEC Unconventional Natural Gas Census, January 2013.
The
overall report is provided in two parts. The purpose of Part I
of our APEC Unconventional Gas Census report is to: (1) document
information on surveys of unconventional gas resources
completed, underway or planned by the various APEC economies,
including ... |
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APEC |
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Best Practices and Perspectives of Energy-Efficiency
Technologies for Utilization of Low Rank Coal within APEC
Economies, Published 2013. The current
status of energy-efficiency technologies for utilization of low
rank coal within APEC economies especially in China was
analyzed, and general guidelines recommendations for the
technological development were put forth based on the concept of
circular economy, advocating large scale utilization of low rank
coal through upgrading and integrated functional unit operations
and processes. |
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APEC |
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APEC Energy Statistical Analysis Tool, Published 2012.
The tool supports retrieval and analysis of data and provides
various viewing options that have been prepared in consultation
with member economies in the APEC region. |
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APEC |
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Production Networks, Profits, and Innovative Activity: Evidence
from Malaysia and Thailand, February 2013.
This paper uses firm-level data from the two most active ASEAN
countries in production networks (Thailand and Malaysia) and
examines the effect of participating in production networks on
profits and technological capabilities of firms. The empirical
results show that participating in production networks raises
profits. The evidence further suggests that participation in
production networks is also positively correlated with
technology upgrading, measured by a technological capabilities
index. |
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ADB |
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Cambodia: Rapid Growth with Institutional Constraints, January
2013. This paper examines Cambodia’s
socioeconomic development since the early 1990s peace
settlement. Some key challenges are also highlighted. These
include rising inequality, uneven spatial development, weak
institutions, and high levels of corruption. Looking forward,
strengthening supply side capabilities, broadening the benefits
of growth, and developing stronger institutions and property
rights will be key factors in guaranteeing Cambodia's progress. |
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ADB |
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Inclusive Growth and Gender Inequality in Asia's Labour Markets,
December 2012.
This study
examines gender inequality in labor markets across Asia and the
Pacific, with a focus on the structural drivers of women’s labor
force participation... |
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ADB |
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Is Growth in Asia and the Pacific Inclusive? December 2012.
The study finds that growth of 11 Asian economies
studied—Armenia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia,
Kazakhstan, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Timor-Leste, and
Viet Nam—has become more inclusive. Evidence of inclusive growth
is also found in a number of Central Asian economies. |
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ADB |
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Risk-On/Risk-Off, Capital Flows, Leverage, and Safe Assets,
January 2013. This paper describes the
international flow of funds associated with calm and volatile
global equity markets. During calm periods, portfolio investment
by real money and leveraged investors in advanced countries
flows into emerging markets, leading to an asymmetric asset swap
(risky emerging market assets against safe reserve currency
assets) and leveraging up by emerging market central banks. In
declining and volatile global equity markets, these flows
reverse, and, contrary to some claims, emerging market central
banks draw down reserves substantially. In effect emerging
market central banks then release safe assets from their
reserves, supplying safe havens to global investors. |
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ADB |
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Investing in Resilience: Ensuring a Disaster-Resistant Future,
Published 2013.
This report offers an approach and ideas for reflection,
inviting readers to consider how we can ensure that the actions
that we know are required to strengthen resilience are actually
taken. It is primarily aimed at investors in the public sphere,
namely governments and their development partners... |
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ADB |
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Gender and Urban Poverty in South Asia: Proceedings Report of
the 2012 Subregional Workshop, Published 2013.
This report presents a synthesis of knowledge, experiences, good
practices, and recommendations shared at the forum with the aim
of assisting ADB and its partner agencies in the planning of
urban development projects to facilitate gender- and socially
inclusive outcomes and reduce poverty in South Asia. |
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ADB |
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Handbook on Poverty and Social Analysis: A Working Document,
Published 2012.
This handbook is intended to help professionals involved in
programming, preparing, and implementing activities financed by
the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to effectively address the
poverty and social dimensions of ADB’s operations aligned with
Strategy 2020’s inclusive growth agenda, thereby enhancing ADB’s
efforts to reduce poverty in Asia and the Pacific. |
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ADB |
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Tourism in Yap
and Micronesia: Will China Run the Show? February 2013.
Archaeologist at the Federated States of Micronesia National
Archives, Culture, and Historic Preservation Office, explains
that "Whether China or the United States will have a greater
influence over this region has yet to be determined, but the
process of competition is underway now." |
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EWC |
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Japanese
Politics: "Season Three", January 2013.
Hirofumi Kawaguchi, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Tokyo,
explains that "The LDP's landslide victory does not mean that
Japanese voters enthusiastically support the LDP." |
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EWC |
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Bumpy Road
to the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, January 2013.
Katherine G. Southwick, International Law and Development
Consultant recently based in the Philippines, explains that for
ASEAN "Progress will be slow, but the establishment of human
rights institutions is an irreversible process, through which
member states will be held to account." |
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EWC |
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Can the CCP
Really Afford to Play the Nationalist Card? January 2013.
Sheng Ding, Associate Professor of Political Science at
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, explains that "The
difference today is that when the CCP played the nationalist
card in previous diplomatic disputes, Beijing always talked
tough but acted carefully. This time however, Beijing is talking
tough and acting dangerously." |
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EWC |
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Navigating a Changing World Economy: ASEAN, the People's
Republic of China, and India, January 2013.
Most projections envision continued rapid growth in the ASEAN
members, the People's Republic of China, and India over the next
two decades. By 2030, they could quadruple their output,
virtually eliminate extreme poverty, and dramatically transform
the lives of their more than 3 billion citizens. The impact will
be felt across the world. This study—a background paper to an
Asian Development Bank report—used a Computable General
Equilibrium model to examine the likely effects of the region's
growth on trade, resources and the environment, as well as the
implications of the many risks the region's growth path faces
from its internal and external environment. |
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ADB |
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A ZEN Approach to Post-2015: Addressing the Range of
Perspectives Across Asia and the Pacific, January 2013.
The “ZEN” framework stresses the distinct challenges of
achieving zero extreme poverty (Z), setting country-specific
“Epsilon” benchmarks for broader development challenges (E), and
promoting environmental sustainability both within and across
borders (N)... |
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ADB |
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Overlooked Opportunity: Tradable Business Services, Developing
Asia, and Growth, January 2013. The
empirical analysis in this paper is less than satisfying, but is
a result of the relative paucity of empirical research on the
service sector. A major contributing factor to this lack of
research is the lack of data on the service sector... |
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ADB |
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Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Gender Differences
in Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from the Birthweight Differences
of Chinese Twins, December 2012. This
paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a
variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A unique feature
of the study is to use micro evidence on the relationship
between birthweight - an early measure of nutritional advantage
- and schooling outcomes to make inferences about the
relationships between specific aspects of economic growth and
schooling investments and returns... |
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ADB |
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The Service Sector in Asia: Is It an Engine of Growth? December
2012. Based on the analysis of 12 Asian
economies, the study finds that the service sector already
contributed substantially to the region’s growth in the past.
Further, services labor productivity grew at a healthy pace in
most of the region. Overall, the analysis provides substantial
cause for optimism about the role of the service sector as an
engine of growth in Asia. |
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ADB |
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Economy Reports for APEC Economies on demographics, policies &
ICT applications for people with Special Needs (Seniors and
People with Disabilities), January 2013.
The study is a part of APEC Project “ICT applications for people
with special needs (seniors and people with disabilities)”. The
main goal of this project was to create an effective platform
for knowledge exchange on innovation for assistive ICT and
applications for the elderly and disabled. |
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APEC |
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APEC Capacity Building Model for Training the Trainers, January
2013. The report outlines nine main
competency areas in which training should be provided and eight
different trainer types to whom this training should be focused
on. In essence, the training to be provided is “training for
trainers”, that is, competencies are created in groups for
professionals who are in close contact with the elderly,
disabled and others with special needs on a regular basis. |
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APEC |
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Implementing the APEC Anti-Corruption Code of Conduct for
Business, December 2012. This project
report documents the processes, results, lessons, and
recommendations that emerged from the ACT 02 2011A project’s two
main components: the Baseline Study and the Forum on the
Implementation of the APEC Anti-Corruption Code of Conduct for
Business. |
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APEC |
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Renewable Energy Promotion Policies, December 2012.
The purpose of this report is to direct the experience and
knowledge obtained from the application of policies for
promoting renewable energy in the world to address the
developing economies in APEC. |
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APEC |
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Consolidated Site Visit Report: Performance-Based Navigation
Regulatory Review and Evaluation Program, December 2012.
This report documents the outcomes of the two site visits in two
member economies: Malaysia and the Philippines, where a team of
experts on Performance-Based Navigation worked to share safety
oversight training and best practices. |
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APEC |
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Strengthening Health Security in APEC, September 2012 (Published
2013). This project final report
summarizes the outcomes of project's work, “International
Symposium for Rural Health Human Resource Development in
Asia-Pacific Region”. |
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APEC |
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APEC Outcomes and Outlook 2012/2013. In
APEC Indonesia 2013, APEC meets under the theme “Resilient
Asia-Pacific, Engine of Global Growth” and focuses on Attaining
the Bogor Goals; Creating Sustainable Growth with Equity; and
Promoting Connectivity. This publication also looks back at the
outcomes of APEC Russia 2012 and the 20th APEC Economic Leaders'
Meeting at Vladivostok, Russia. |
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APEC |
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APEC at a Glance, 2013. The Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum was established in 1989 to
capitalise on the growing interdependence of Asia-Pacific
economies. This handy publication lists APEC's goals, modus
operandi and member economies. |
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APEC |
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2013 |
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Enhancing the Effectiveness of CMIM and AMRO: Selected Immediate
Challenges and Tasks, January 2013. The
Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation (CMIM) and the ASEAN+3
Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO), established in March 2010
and May 2011, respectively, have made substantial headway. But
despite the rapid progress, a series of fundamental questions
have been raised, particularly about the size of the CMIM
facility. Although CMIM funding was doubled to $240 billion,
effective since May 2012, the swap amount has frequently been
criticized as insufficient. Another fundamental issue that still
needs to be agreed upon is the CMIM's role and how it fits in
among existing regional and global financing facilities. AMRO's
surveillance work is seen as vital to the overall success of the
CMIM in regional financial cooperation. The primary task of this
paper is to suggest possible areas in which the effectiveness of
the CMIM and AMRO may be increased, despite constraints and
limitations. |
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ADB |
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International Financial Reforms: Capital Standards, Resolution
Regimes and Supervisory Colleges, and their Effect on Emerging
Markets, Januray 2013. This paper focuses
on the relevance to emerging economies of three major financial
reforms following the global financial crisis of 2007–2009: (1)
the improved capital requirements intended to reduce the risk of
bank failure ("Basel III"), (2) the improved recovery and
resolution regimes for global banks, and (3) the development of
supervisory colleges of cross-border financial institutions to
improve supervisory cooperation and convergence. The paper also
addresses the implications of these regulatory reforms for Asian
emerging markets. |
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ADB |
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From a Centralized to a Decentralized Global Economic
Architecture: An Overview, January 2013.
This paper argues that calls for a New Bretton Woods system in
the aftermath of the global economic crisis—similar to the
remarkable 1944 Bretton Woods conference that led to the
establishment of various international economic institutions—are
unlikely to be answered. The likely scenario is that the
centralized architecture from before the global economic crisis
will evolve toward a more decentralized and multilayered global
architecture where regional institutions are linked together to
a "senior" global organization in a complementary manner by
rules and regulations. The paper also highlights the new
regional institutions that Asia needs to establish to contribute
to this evolving global economic architecture. |
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ADB |
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Asian Development Review, Vol. 29,
No. 2, 2012 (Full
Report):
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ADB |
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Asian Development Review, Vol. 29,
No. 1, 2012 (Full
Report):
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ADB |
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More Security
for Rising China, Less for Others? January 2013.
In the face of a rising China, the most fundamental concern of
Asia Pacific governments is how a stronger China affects their
own security. While China could achieve a reasonable amount of
security and prosperity playing within the current international
rules, there is reason to expect China to use its expanding
economic, military, and diplomatic influence to press
neighboring governments to conform to its wishes on political
issues. Based on a historical perception that a China-centered
regional order is the region's natural destiny, China sees
itself as the rightful leader of the region. And despite
pragmatic forces restraining aggressive behavior by China, there
is immense nationalistic pressure that pushes the top leadership
toward more confrontational foreign policies. An important
aspect of the strategic impact of China's rise depends on
whether its policies violate international norms and threaten
the security of other countries. Regional security will be
defined in part by the willingness and ability of the region to
stand up to China's demands. |
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EWC |
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Japan's
Election: Watching the Wrong Hawks, January 2013.
Crystal Pryor, recent Japan Studies Visiting Fellow at the
East-West Center in Washington, explains that "First, while Abe
has been termed a 'hawk' or 'nationalist' in Western media
outlets, these terms carry different connotations in American
discourse than they do in Japan." |
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EWC |
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Dietary Shift and Diet Quality in India: An Analysis Based on
50th, 61st and 66th Rounds of NSS, 2012.
An important finding is slowing down of dietary transition in
the more recent sub-period 2004-09. Clues relate to weakening or
strengthening of food price, expenditure and lifestyle effects
over time... A common finding that food diversity is associated
with better quality diet and higher intakes of nutrients is not
corroborated. While there is a reduction in calorie intake,
there are increases in protein and fat intakes... |
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ASARC |
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Performance of the Service Sector in the Republic of Korea,
December 2012. There is a widespread
perception that the Republic of Korea’s service sector lags
behind its dynamic world-class manufacturing sector. The study
empirically analyzes the past performance of the Republic of
Korea’s service sector in order to assess its prospects as an
engine of growth. It resoundingly confirms the conventional
wisdom of an underperforming service sector. In light of the
Republic of Korea’s high income and development level, the poor
performance of modern services is of particular concern. The
report identifies a number of factors underlying the poor
performance, and sets forth policy recommendations for
addressing them. Overall, the Republic of Korea faces a
challenging but navigable road ahead in developing a high
value-added service sector... |
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ADB |
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Developing the Service Sector as Engine of Growth for Asia: An
Overview, November 2012. The analysis
indicates that services are already an important source of
output, growth, and jobs in the region. However, its
productivity greatly lags that of the advanced economies, which
implies ample room for further growth... |
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ADB |
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Transactions: A New Look at Service Sector Foreign Direct
Investment in Asia, November 2012. This
paper presents new micro-level data consisting of individual
greenfield investment projects and mergers and acquisitions as a
source for detailed analysis of service sector cross-border
investment flows among the Asian Development Bank (ADB) regional
members. The new transactional foreign direct investment (FDI)
data are methodologically distinct from traditional
BPM5-compliant FDI data but found to yield generally comparable
aggregates, when compared with the latest available
International Monetary Fund (IMF) data from the Comprehensive
Direct Investment Survey for the ADB regional members... |
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ADB |
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Assessing Factors Affecting M&As versus Greenfield FDI in
Emerging Countries, November 2012. This
paper employs a system generalized method of moments estimator
for the panel data consisting of 40 emerging countries for the
period 1990–2009. The results suggest that there exist a strong
and significant global and regional influence in both types of
FDI flows to an emerging country. M&A appears to be more
sensitive to external factors, both global and regional effects
are about twice stronger for M&A than for Greenfield FDI. The
results also suggest that countryspecific factors matter a lot
for FDI flows both in the form of M&A and Greenfield FDI,
pointing to the importance of government roles in helping
stabilize FDI flows to emerging countries. This paper also
offers empirical evidence which is consistent with the
phenomenon of a fire-sale FDI during the period of financial
crisis. Additional evidence using extensive and intensive
margins of M&A sales suggest that the fire-sale does not
necessarily imply an increase in the number of deals, but it may
reflect the sales of big firms during the crisis... |
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ADB |
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Is Timor-Leste's Growth Inclusive? November 2012.
This study examines the first decade of the restoration of
independence to assess if Timor-Leste’s economic growth has been
inclusive. Opportunity is found to have been provided to a
larger share of the population, with those on lower as well as
higher living standards enjoying more opportunity. Inequality in
opportunity is generally in decline. It concludes that inclusive
growth has been achieved. To maintain progress, it will be
important to (i) prioritize support for the poorest Timorese,
and (ii) achieve improvements in some lagging sectors, notably
roads, water, and sanitation... |
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ADB |
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Adoption of CFLs and Electrical Lighting Usage in Pakistan,
October 2012. The findings indicate that
policies that educate households on the lifespan of CFLs may
prove effective in increasing CFL adoption. However, the savings
in electricity usage from CFL adoption is less than expected. We
find that 27%–41% of potential energy savings are offset through
both enlarged bulb capacity and prolonged lighting time. This
behavioral response to the energy efficiency improvement
therefore diminishes some of the benefits of promoting CFLs as a
means to reduce energy consumption and conserve the environment... |
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ADB |
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The Informal Sector and Informal Employment in Bangladesh,
Published 2012. Based on a labor force
survey conducted in 2010, informal employment in Bangladesh is
estimated at about 89% of the total number of jobs in the labor
market. It is more prevalent in the rural areas than in urban
areas. Women are also more likely to be under informal
employment arrangements. The informal sector accounted for more
than 40% of the total gross value added of Bangladesh in 2010,
with the highest contributions in agriculture, fishery, trade,
and industries where capitalization is relatively lower. |
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ADB |
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Hong
Kong: High Frequency Macroeconomic Forecasts Current
Quarter Model: 2013Q1, January 2013.
The worst time of European debt crisis might have been
over. The recovery of the US economy seems gathering
steam. The low interest rate environment will likely
continue through 2015. China's economy is expected to
rebound a bit. Under these conditions, real GDP is
forecast to increase by 3.5 to 4.3 percent for 2013.
Consumer inflation is expected to be mild and the labour
market stable in the upcoming quarters... |
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HKU |
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Closer
US-India Relations Benefit the United States and Mississippi,
December 2012.
Senator Roger Wicker, who represents Mississippi in the US
Senate, explains that "The dynamic and productive US-India
relationship continues to grow from strength to strength, and
there is no doubt that this partnership will play a major role
in US foreign policy in the years ahead. This is good news for
the United States and for the State of Mississippi." |
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EWC |
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The
Collective Influence of Smaller States in the US-China Security
Dilemme, December 2012.
Ja
Ian Chong, Asia Studies Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center
in Washington, explains that "Any ratcheting down of Sino-US
security dilemmas in the Asia-Pacific is a task that ultimately
falls to Washington and Beijing, but regional states should
avoid fueling tensions." |
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EWC |
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India's
Military Modernization and the Changing US-China Power Balance,
December 2012.
Satoru Nagao, Research Fellow at the Ocean Policy Research
Foundation based in Tokyo, Japan, explains that "Upon closer
examination, it is clear that India will be an influential
security partner for the United States in shaping the US-China
power balance throughout Asia, but especially in Southeast
Asia." |
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EWC |
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US-ASEAN
Relations: Advances Made But Challenges Remain, December 2012.
Prashanth Parameswaran, Ph.D Candidate in International Affairs
at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, explains that
"Taking into consideration the ebbs and flows perceived by Asian
states of US commitment to the region in the past, the
sustainability challenge will probably continue to preoccupy US
and ASEAN leaders for the rest of the Obama second term, and
beyond." |
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EWC |
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The
Passing of Sihanouk: Monarchic Manipulation and the
Search for Autonomy in the Kingdom of Cambodia, December
2012 |
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APJ |
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Distributed Power and Incentives in Post-Fukushima
Japan, December 2012 |
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APJ |
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Hmong Studies
Journal,
Vol.
13, Issues 1 & 2, 2012 |
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HSJ |
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Strengthening Human Resource Management System of SMEs for
Facilitating Successful Trade and Investment in APEC, Case Book,
December 2012. |
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APEC |
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Mathematical Modeling Course in Mathematics Curriculim: Some
Best Practices in APEC Economies, December 2012.
This project aims to identify ways in which Mathematical
Modeling curriculum are being defined, developed, and practiced
in the APEC region. This document is the results of a workshop
on “Promoting best practices on Mathematical Modeling Course in
APEC economies”, in October 22-23, 2012, at Institut Teknologi
Bandung, Indonesia. |
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APEC |
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Sharing best practices for seamless intermodal cargo movement.
Phase 1. Physical infrastructure, November 2012.
The project at its Phase One specifically is aimed at addressing
Chokepoint 2: Inefficient or inadequate transport infrastructure
and lack of cross border physical linkages (e.g. roads, bridges)
and Chokepoint 6: underdeveloped multi-modal transport
capabilities; inefficient air, land, and multimodal
connectivity. The project is aimed at trade facilitation through
improvement of infrastructure and innovative means to share best
practices among for APEC economies on proper infrastructure use. |
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APEC |
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Microgrids for Local Energy Supply to Remote Areas and Islands
in APEC Region, November 2012. This
volume brings together most essential contributions from the
workshop on Microgrids for Local Energy Supply to Remote Areas
and Islands in APEC Region that was held on October 15-17, 2012
as the core activity of the project. The objective that guided
the project team in preparation for this release was to provide
the reader with basic insights on microgrid technology
development and, more importantly, outline a menu of options for
microgrid pilot project development with references to some
success stories. |
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APEC |
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The Study of Addressing Challenges of AMI Deployment in APEC,
November 2012 |
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APEC |
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Japan's Education Services Imports: Branch Campus or Subsidiary
Campus? December 2012. S. Hamanaka
reviews the development of regulatory status of services trade
in tertiary education services, especially education through
oversea campuses, and considers the policy implications on
issues regarding the regulation of services industry. Read more... |
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ADB |
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Environmental Change and Migration: Implications for Australia, December
2012. In the Pacific Islands region, climate
change and natural disasters could displace potentially thousands of
people in coming years. A significant number of these people could end
up as environmental migrants to Australia. In this Lowy Institute
Analysis, Dr Khalid Koser argues that Australia needs a national policy
framework on environmental migration to manage the new flow of migrants
in ways that maximise the benefits, but also minimise the costs to the
country, including any increase in irregular migration... |
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Lowy |
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Assessment of Prospective Impact of Fruits and
Vegetables Research at the Industry Level in the
Philippines: the Case of the ACIAR-PCAARRD Horticulture
Project, November 2012 |
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PIDS |
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Unfair Trade Practices in the Philippines, November 2012 |
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PIDS |
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ASEAN+1 FTAs and the Global Supply Chain in East Asia:
the Case of the Philippine Automotive and Electronics
Sectors, October 2012 |
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PIDS |
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Rules of Origin in ASEAN+1 FTAs and the Value Chain in
East Asia, October 2012 |
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PIDS |
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Impacts of Natural Disasters on Agriculture, Food
Security, and Natural Resources and Environment in the
Philippines, October 2012 |
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PIDS |
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Philippines 2007 National Transfer Accounts:
Consumption, Income, and Intergenerational Reallocation
of Resources - Revised Estimates, October 2012 |
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PIDS |
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Implications of Philippine Trends in Education Financing
and Projected Change in School-age Population on
Education Expenditures by Income Group: Using National
Transfer Accounts Results, October 2012 |
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PIDS |
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Philippines 2007 National Transfer Accounts: Financing
Consumption and Lifecycle Deficit by Income Group,
October 2012 |
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PIDS |
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Philippines 2007 National Transfer Accounts:
Consumption, Labor Income, and Lifecycle Deficit by
Income Group, October 2012 |
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PIDS |
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Filipino Elderly Living Arrangements, Work Activity, and
Labor Income as Old-age Support, October 2012 |
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PIDS |
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