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Thailand's economic integration with neighboring countries and possible connectivity with South Asia

Suthiphand Chirathivat; Kornkarun Cheewatrakoolpong - 2015

Thailand's increasing importance as a regional co-production base and as an intra-regional trade and border trade hub is due mainly to recent changes in its economic structure, namely, the lack of operational workers, rises in wages, and increases in outward foreign direct investment (FDI),...

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Belts, roads, and regions : the dynamics of Chinese and Japanese infrastructure connectivity initiatives and Europe's responses

Pascha, Werner - 2020

The paper argues that East Asia is setting the pace for the recent trend in regional and inter-regional integration, which is associated with multilateral infrastructure connectivity initiatives, like the "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI) of the People's Republic of China and Japan's "Partnership...

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The People's Republic of China connecting Europe?

Gruebler, Julia - 2020

connectivity in Europe to drive economic convergence and not political divergence. The need to establish a level playing field for …

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Market access and firm performance : evidence based on GIS analysis of road network and manufacturing-plant-level data from India

Sharma, Somnath; Kant, Shashi; Mishra, Ranjeeta; … - 2022

This paper investigates whether better access to markets through an improved road network plays a role in improving the profitability of firms in India. We construct a district-level market access index using Indian road network shapefiles, district boundaries, and nightlight raster images and...

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Cross-economy dynamics in energy productivity : evidence from 47 economies over the period 2000-2015

Liu, Yang; Zhong, Sheng - 2021

economies contradict the implicit assumption of standard convergence analysis. To address this issue, we adopt the Markov chain …

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A framework to study the role of structural transformation in productivity growth and regional convergence

Fukao, Kyōji; Paul, Saumik - 2018

We show that σ-convergence in regional productivity growth can be approximated by σ-convergence in sectoral … productivity growth and σ-convergence in structural transformation-led productivity growth. Applying this framework to Japanese … prefecture-level data from 1874 to 2008, we find support for substantial convergence effects of structural transformation in the …

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The Republic of Korea's economic growth and catch-up : implications for the People's Republic of China

Lee, Jong-Wha - 2016

conditional convergence theory. Cross-country regression further suggests that the Republic of Korea's catch-up to the United … decades due to the convergence effect and with the rebalancing toward a domestic consumption and services-based economy. The …

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Service sector productivity and economic growth in Asia

Lee, Jong-Wha; McKibbin, Warwick J. - 2014

This paper explores the impacts of more rapid growth in labor productivity in the service sector in Asia based on an empirical general equilibrium model. The model allows for input-output linkages and capital movements across industries and economies, and consumption and investment dynamics. We...

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Sectoral and skill contributions to labor productivity in Asia

Helble, Matthias; Long, Trinh; Le, Trang T. - 2019

Using a decomposition approach on data collected by the Asian Productivity Organization (APO) as well as World Input-Output data, we show that in most Asian economies the services sector makes the largest contribution to labor productivity. Furthermore, we find evidence of a major reallocation...

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East Asian integration : towards an East Asian economic community

Dent, Christopher M. - 2017

East Asia is a region of great global significance, currently accounting for around 30% of the global economy by most measures, e.g. production, trade, investment and finance. It has also become increasingly integrated in various ways. Integration at the micro-level has steadily progressed since...

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