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The purpose of this study is to measure the impact of final demand aggregates on the sectoral value added in the Iranian economy by employing input-output analysis and econometric modelling. This paper presents a model in which the sectoral value added for major aggregate sectors is linked with...
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the level of capital mobility in the largest economies of Asia by testing … the seven largest economies of Asia, specifically Russia, Japan, South Korea, Turkey, India, Indonesia and China. This …
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This paper examines the effects of a longer school year in Indonesia on grade repetition, educational attainment, employability, and earnings. I exploit an arbitrary rule that assigned students to a longer school year in Indonesia in 1978-1979, which fits a fuzzy regression discontinuity design....
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This paper presents theory and evidence to show that imperialism was a major factor impeding the spread of the …
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I examine whether family hardship experienced by owners of micro and small firms affects the firms' growth. Based on a representative sample of owners of firms in Indonesia, and using deaths of owners' family members as a measure of hardship, I estimate the effects of family hardship on firms'...
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This paper uses a set of international input-output tables constructed for selected Asian countries (and the USA) for the years of 1975 and 1985 to compare sectoral and intercountry changes over this decade. The analysis makes use of a framework developed by Guilhoto, Hewings, and Sonis (1996)...
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The major aim of this chapter is to extend the poverty studies of the sixties into the seventies, it also re-examines the evidence on rural poverty for the sixties, supplementing the results with new evidence where available, mainly to see whether the conclusions reached by earlier authors were...
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identifies India’s performance in CFG trade with other Asian nations. Most of the countries in Asia are importers of climate … China, Hong Kong and Japan, and Asia Pacific region are major exporter of CFG during 2002-2008. Competitiveness of India …
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globalization in Asia. There is little evidence that financial globalization has had a positive impact on growth for the world as a … for Asia. Perhaps the most striking difference between the results for Asia and for the larger sample of countries relates … prevalent in the group of East Asian countries than for emerging Asia or Asia as a whole. …
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This paper evaluates the effectiveness of some of the microfinance lending methodologies using the approach comparing these institutions among themselves in terms of how different lending methodologies influence their performance indicators. The results of this study with respect to different...
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