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Industrial Policy in Indonesia: A Global Value Chain Perspective

Tijaja, Julia; Faisal, Mohammad - 2014

The gains of a country from participating in global value chains (GVCs) will depend on the productive activities taking place in its jurisdiction and their linkages to the domestic economy. Lead firms' decision on where to locate and how to coordinate production activities is influenced, among...

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The employment effects of technological innovation, consumption, and participation in global value chains: Evidence from developing Asia

Bertulfo, Donald Jay; Gentile, Elisabetta; de Vries, … - 2019

Global value chains (GVCs) have been a vehicle for job creation in developing Asia, but there is mounting concern that more sophisticated and cost-effective technology could displace workers through automation or reshoring of production. We use the demand-based input-output approach in Reijnders...

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A case for value-added exports in the estimation of export diversification in Asia and the Pacific

Bajaj, Pallavi; Baris, Kristina; Gonzales, Patricia Georgina - 2022

Export diversification, or the breadth of exports of an economy, is increasingly seen as a means of accelerating … structures may not be adequately reflected in diversification measurements based on gross exports. This paper develops a new … indicator of export diversification based on value added in sectors contributing to exports. For most Asia and the Pacific …

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Education and the Journey to the Core: Path-dependence or Leapfrogging?

Mehta, Aashish; Felipe, Jesus - 2014

, to answer: (i) whether export diversification is path-dependent, and whether it is more difficult to diversify into more … diversification. Our framework also allows us to test whether leapfrogging into what we refer to as core products is possible and …

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Education and the evolution of comparative advantage

Felipe, Jesus; Jin, Hongyuan; Mehta, Aashish - 2021

We provide the first evidence that low- and middle-income countries with high education levels were more successful in developing comparative advantage in products unrelated to those they already export. In contrast, controlling for the relatedness of target products to these countries' exports,...

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Education and the Journey to the Core: Path-dependence or Leapfrogging?

Mehta, Aashish; Felipe, Jesus - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2014

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Characterizing regionalism in Asia: A modern global supply chain perspective

Wei, Shang-Jin; Yu, Xinding - 2022

This paper employs a modern global value chain (GVC) decomposition framework to quantify economic interdependence among Asian economies and between Asia and the rest of the world. It pays special attention to the value-added relationships among three sets of economies: those belonging to both...

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Overlooked Opportunity: Tradable Business Services, Developing Asia, and Growth

Jensen, J. Bradford - 2013

This paper argues that developing Asia is overlooking an opportunity for increased growth and development through trade in business services. Developing Asia would benefit from liberalizing services trade as it has benefited from liberalizing goods trade. This argument rests on these key...

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Cambodia: Rapid Growth with Institutional Constraints

Hill, Hal; Menon, Jayant - 2013

This paper examines Cambodia's socioeconomic development since the early 1990s peace settlement. The country's economic growth has arguably been the fastest among post-conflict societies, driven by the credible restoration of peace and security, large public and private capital inflows, economic...

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Cambodia's Special Economic Zones

Warr, Peter; Menon, Jayant - 2015

This study examines the role of special economic zones (SEZs) within the trade policy of Cambodia. It asks whether Cambodia's establishment of SEZs since late 2005 has been successful, based on the evidence to date, and analyzes the appropriate role and management of SEZs over the next decade or...

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