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Asian economies and between Asia and the rest of the world. It pays special attention to the value-added relationships among … than the direct linkages. Finally, there is an increased tendency in Asia for both “near selling” of the value added in …
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This paper analyzes the effects of the current trade conflict on developing Asia using the Asian Development Bank …)–People's Republic of China (PRC) trade conflict would shave 1% off PRC GDP and 0.2% off US GDP. The rest of developing Asia could see …
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Developing Asia's rapid economic growth has been shifting the global economic and industrial centers of gravity away … from the North Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade, and boosting South–South trade. How will trade … patterns change over the next 2 decades in the course of economic growth and structural changes in developing Asia and the rest …
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We examine the determinants of financial development in Asia and the Pacific from 1995 to 2011. To do so, we apply the …
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export patterns observed for six other countries in Southeast Asia. Against that benchmark and controlling for outliers …
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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...
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We analyze 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. We compute a bilateral import penetration index (BIPI), which gauges the degree to which a country depends on...
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This paper explores disparities in Millennium Development Goals among countries in the Asia and Pacific region, with a …
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This paper revisits the issue of the evolution and choice of exchange rate regimes in Asia. The paper first compiles … exchange rate regimes for Asia in the future …
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as well as droughts and heat waves. The Asia and the Pacific region has experienced some of the most damaging disasters … Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors — rising population exposure, greater … temperature linked to droughts and heat waves) and the frequency of intense natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific and its …
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