نتایج جستجو برای: asian economies

تعداد نتایج: 92023  

1999
NICHOLAS CRAFTS Nicholas Crafts

The paper surveys the literature on the growth performance of the East Asian economies, evaluates the sustainability of that performance, and provides a preliminary assessment of their long-term growth prospects in the aftermath of the current crisis. It highlights special features of East Asian growth, including unusually high factor accumulation and a favorable demographic transition, but arg...

2003
Gaofeng Han Kaliappa Kalirajan

This study compares the sources of growth in East Asia with the rest of the world, using a methodology that allows one to decompose total factor productivity (TFP) growth into technical efficiency changes (catching up) and technological progress. It applies a varying coefficients frontier production function model to aggregate data for the period 1970-1990, for a sample of 45 developed and deve...

2006
Henry Wai-chung Yeung

The rise of Asia as an important region for global business has been widely recognized as one of the most significant economic phenomena in the new millennium. In his February 2005 speech delivered at Lancaster University’s Management School, Stephen Green, the Group CEO of HSBC Holdings plc – the global bank that arguably knows Asia best – noted that the rise of Asia ‘will fundamentally reshap...

2009
Grace H.Y. Lee M. Azali

This paper assesses the empirical desirability of the East Asian economies to an alternative exchange rate arrangement (a monetary union) that can potentially enhance the exchange rate stability and credibility in the region. Specifically, the symmetry in macroeconomic disturbances of the East Asian economies is examined as satisfying one of the preconditions for forming an Optimum Currency Are...

2014
Erik Terk

This article makes an attempt to compare the development patterns of the economies of the East Asian and Central and Eastern European (CEE) regions, which have been the fastest in catching up on the global arena. It observes both the internal features of the economies and economic policies and the parameters characterising their relation with the international background (openness, integration)...

Journal: :Journal of health economics 2008
Owen O'Donnell Eddy van Doorslaer Ravi P Rannan-Eliya Aparnaa Somanathan Shiva Raj Adhikari Baktygul Akkazieva Deni Harbianto Charu C Garg Piya Hanvoravongchai Alejandro N Herrin Mohammed N Huq Shamsia Ibragimova Anup Karan Soon-man Kwon Gabriel M Leung Jui-fen Rachel Lu Yasushi Ohkusa Badri Raj Pande Rachel Racelis Keith Tin Kanjana Tisayaticom Laksono Trisnantoro Quan Wan Bong-Min Yang Yuxin Zhao

We estimate the distributional incidence of health care financing in 13 Asian territories that account for 55% of the Asian population. In all territories, higher-income households contribute more to the financing of health care. The better-off contribute more as a proportion of ability to pay in most low- and lower-middle-income territories. Health care financing is slightly regressive in thre...

2002
Siegfried Bender

Changes in comparative advantage should reflect changes in factor endowment, but increasingly, changes in trade policies also affect a region’s trade performance. Based on the arguments in Balassa’s stages of comparative advantage thesis, this paper looks at the performance of manufacture exports in a number of Asian and Latin American economies over the period 1981-1997 and examines the reveal...

2006
Haibin Zhu

Over the past decade, Asia-Pacific economies have made significant progress in developing private housing markets and market-based systems for financing home purchases. However, development has been uneven across countries due to the heterogeneity in market infrastructure and economic development. This special feature documents structural characteristics of national housing markets in Asia, foc...

2002
Kenichi KAWASAKI

The quality of aid has been a worldwide concern in the wake of September 11, 2001. On the other hand, Japan’s massive amount of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the Asian economies has been questioned by the Japanese people. The main objective of this paper is to overview the developments of Japan’s ODA and assess, in a quantitative manner, their economic impacts on Asian countries. Jap...

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