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    High risks of global imbalances: role of infrastructure investments in Asia

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2005
    Despite the seriousness of the problem global imbalance, there is a dearth of credible proposals for curing the malady. The standard recipes are three: revaluation of currencies in Asia, in particular the Chinese Yuan, reflationary policies in EU and reduction of fiscal deficits in the US.
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    Regional cooperation for poverty alleviation and food security in Asia

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2005
    ASEAN has undertaken several initiatives to address the social impact of the recent economic and financial crisis and to deal with the problem of poverty. Regional cooperation in human capital development focuses on the sharing of best practices in and capacity building for employment promotion, manpower planning, skills training, social monitoring, and design of emergency social safety nets.
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    Environmental livelihood security in Southeast Asia and Oceania: a water-energy-food-livelihoods nexus approach for spatially assessing change

    International Water Management Institute, 2014
    This document addresses the need for explicit inclusion of livelihoods within the environment nexus (water-energy-food security). The authors present a conceptualisation of ‘environmental livelihood security’, which combines the nexus perspective with sustainable livelihoods.
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    Background paper: research and development and extension services in agriculture and food security

    Asian Development Bank, 2014
    This paper explores the role of applied research for development and extension services through the two-pronged approach of boosting food production and preventing losses. Priority areas for research emphasize attention to smallholder farming systems, practical business models, the integration of gender, and multidisciplinary research that is sensitive to nutritional outcomes.
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    The differential effects of oil demand and supply shocks on the global economy

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    How do oil-price shocks affect real output, inflation, the real effective exchange rates, interest rates, and equity prices in different countries, including major oil exporters? The current paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of oil-supply and oil-demand shocks.
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    The limited promise of agricultural trade liberalization

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009
    It has become an article of faith in international trade negotiations that farmers in developing countries have much to gain from agricultural trade liberalisation. This paper assesses the evidence for such claims. It concludes that the promise of agricultural trade liberalisation is overstated, while the costs to small-scale farmers in developing countries are often very high.
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    Does Islamic banking development favor macroeconomic efficiency?: evidence on the Islamic finance – growth nexus

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    Islamic finance can be defined as finance that conforms to Islamic law, and there was an impressive expansion of this finance in recent years. The aim of this paper is to investigate the macroeconomic impact of Islamic banking development by analysing the relation between this development and productivity estimated at the macroeconomic level.
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    Towards an Asian regional mechanism for addressing excess foreign exchange reserves, infrastructure deficits and global imbalances

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    Foreign exchange reserves of Asia are now more than $3 trillion and increasing at more than 10 per cent per year. While such abundance of reserves is a cause for comfort in many Asian countries with recent memories of foreign exchange crisis, there are at least three major problems associated with it;
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    Can the Bali package resolve the Doha impasse and secure the future of the WTO?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Much of recent commentary on the World Trade Organization (WTO) has focused on the stalled Doha Development Round, the reasons for the impasse and proposals for its resolution. In the lead-up to the Bali
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    The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2013
    The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has emerged as a major regional initiative for trade and investment liberalisation and towards enhancing competitiveness of the twelve participant countries drawn from either side of the Pacific. The United States has taken a leadership role in advancing this initiative for which eighteen rounds of negotiations have already been held.

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