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How to make our region greener
Decades of remarkable economic growth have had mixed results in terms of environmental implications for the Asia and Pacific region.
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Ways to Achieve Green Asia-- Escalating environmental degradation and the risk of climate change demand urgent attention from Asian policymakers and the public. This book offers up-to-date analysis of the state of the environment and climate change and policies to address them.
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Multilateral Matters: November 2019
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2019-11-30)
Multilateral Matters is the quarterly publication of the Centre for Multilateralism Studies (CMS), analyzing the most recent developments regarding multilateralism by our team. It covers articles on relevant economic and political issues as well as ...
Asian Economic Integration Report 2019/2020: Demographic Change, Productivity, and the Role of Technology; Highlights
(Asian Development Bank, 2019-11-30)
The Asian Economic Integration Report is an annual review of economic cooperation and integration that covers the 49 members of ADB in Asia and the Pacific. It documents progress made in trade and global value chains, cross-border investment, financial ...
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Malaysia’s Oil and Gas Sector: Constant Expectations despite Diminishing Returns
(ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022-03-02)Since the oil and gas (O&G) sector’s take-off in the 1970s, this natural bounty has yielded myriad benefits to Malaysia. While not falling into the ‘resource curse’ of an unquestioned reliance on natural resources, the O&G sector is nonetheless a key ... -
Asian Development Bank Member Fact Sheet: Tuvalu Updated March 2022
(Asian Development Bank, 2022-03-01)Tuvalu is a small island developing state comprising nine atolls in the South Pacific. It is geographically isolated and highly vulnerable to climatic and economic shocks. With a small private sector and limited resources to support socioeconomic ... -
Understanding SME Trade Finance in ASEAN: An Overview
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2022-02-28)SMEs are the most important source of employment in all ASEAN countries, but a lack of access to external sources of finance may limit their expansion and growth. In particular, the existence of a trade finance gap can curtail their participation in ... -
Chief Executive Officer Attributes and Trade
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2022-02-28)Many articles in international trade literature have shown that firm productivity is a robust determinant of firms’ export and import activities. Further, the literature has also found that, despite being statistically significant, the magnitude of ... -
How can the Philippines seize the opportunities in services trade under RCEP?
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2022-02-28)Despite being a wide-ranging trading arrangement (Ho 2020; Pearson 2020; Rivas 2020; Drysdale and Armstrong 2021), RCEP is considered a marginal regional trade agreement. This is because RCEP merely compiles the previous commitments of the Association ... -
Empowering women-led MSMEs to engage in cross-border e-commerce trade through RCEP
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2022-02-28)This Policy Note presents a gendered perspective on the impact of e-commerce adoption on the performance of women-led MSMEs (WoMSMEs) in Metro Manila and their propensity to engage in cross-border e-commerce trade once RCEP is in effect. The findings ... -
Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic for Developing a Resilient ASEAN
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2022-02-28)The vast differences in the level of economic and social development, political governance, and policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic notwithstanding, nearly all ASEAN member states share a common outlook towards growth strategies. They will all ... -
Market and State in Philippine Agricultural Policy
(Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2022-02-28)This chapter aims to evaluate the country’s agricultural modernization strategy under the lens of the market-driven approach. The early post-War period of economic policy relates to solving the food problem solution for low-income countries, which ... -
RSIS Beyond Relief! Singapore Humanitarian Network Issue 4
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2022-02-28)In our Feature Article, Lina Gong writes about the need to adapt humanitarian practices to new environments and constraints. The sector needs to reform, adapt and innovate to prepare for much more complex and uncertain futures. This issue’s On the ... -
The Intractable Challenges Facing Energy Trade in Southeast Asia
(ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022-02-25)ASEAN is expected to grow collectively by over 5 percent per year to become the world’s fourth-largest economy by 2030. At the same time, the ASEAN Centre of Energy has predicted that energy demand in the region will increase by more than 70 per cent ...