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University of Wollongong

2005

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Asia

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Deficit Financing In Lcds: Evidence From South Asia, Muhammad K. Chowdhury Jan 2005

Deficit Financing In Lcds: Evidence From South Asia, Muhammad K. Chowdhury

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Fiscal policy triggers three distinct effects on the economy such as (1) interest rate effect (2) price effect and (3) exchange rate effect. A VAR system was developed to capture these effects in jive South Asian countries. Empirical results suggest that budgetary action does not have any perceptible influence ·on the interest rate of the sampled countries. In terms of the price effect, fiscal action has opposite effects in Bangladesh and India. Fiscal action tends to increase aggregate price level in India but reduces the price level in Bangladesh, although the magnitude is very small. For Pakistan the price effect …


Changing Forms Of Organising In Regional Intergovernmental Cooperative Network: The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, Matthias P. Ngui, Michael Zanko Jan 2005

Changing Forms Of Organising In Regional Intergovernmental Cooperative Network: The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, Matthias P. Ngui, Michael Zanko

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The organizational theory literature suggests that organisations should adapt to highly competitive business environments by strategically replacing or transforming the traditional with more innovative forms of organising. These innovative and more flexible forms of organizing are often portrayed as dichotomous and antithetical. Recent research by Pettigrew, Fenton, Palmer, DiMaggio and others discovered that one of the emergent themes in contemporary firms is that they engage in apparently contradictory practice, where the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ changes are practiced simultaneously. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), one of the major regional intergovernmental cooperative networks in the Asia Pacific region is investigated …


Qualitative Case Study Research In Africa And Asia: Challenges And Prospects, Bubaker Shareia, Balakrishnan Parasuraman, Bernadine Cantrick-Brooks Jan 2005

Qualitative Case Study Research In Africa And Asia: Challenges And Prospects, Bubaker Shareia, Balakrishnan Parasuraman, Bernadine Cantrick-Brooks

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Much of the literature on research design has focussed on research conducted in developed, uni-cultural or primarily English speaking countries. Studies of qualitative case study research, the challenges and prospects, have been embedded in Western/Euro-centric society and social theories. Although there have been some theoretical studies, few empirical studies have been conducted to explore the nature of the challenges of qualitative case study in Africa and Asia. These challenges include cultural and language issues affecting access to companies and respondent issues and data analysis and financial issues. The authors while conducting qualitative case study research in Libya and Malaysia faced …


Recent Economic Trends In The Asia-Pacific Region, Van Hoa Tran Jan 2005

Recent Economic Trends In The Asia-Pacific Region, Van Hoa Tran

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No abstract provided.


Gender Discrimination And Growth In Major Economies In Asia, Van Hoa Tran Jan 2005

Gender Discrimination And Growth In Major Economies In Asia, Van Hoa Tran

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Economic growth, its determination and distribution have been the main objectives of normative and positive market economics over the years.


Impact Of Economic Policy Reform And Regional And Global Shocks On Trade And Growth In East Asia: Econometric Evidence For China, Van Hoa Tran Jan 2005

Impact Of Economic Policy Reform And Regional And Global Shocks On Trade And Growth In East Asia: Econometric Evidence For China, Van Hoa Tran

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The paper introduces the generalised gravity theory (Tran Van Hoa 2004) to construct a simply flexible simultaneous-equation econometric model of growth and trade of China and its five major trading countries or blocs (Japan, ASEAN-6, the European Union, the US, and Austrralia).


Asean+3 And Rtas And Their Impact On Asia-Australia Trade And Growth: Econometric Evidence From An Extended Gravity Theory, Van Hoa Tran Jan 2005

Asean+3 And Rtas And Their Impact On Asia-Australia Trade And Growth: Econometric Evidence From An Extended Gravity Theory, Van Hoa Tran

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No abstract provided.


The Contribution Of Micro-Enterprises To Regional Economic Recovery And Poverty Alleviation In East Asia, Charles Harvie Jan 2005

The Contribution Of Micro-Enterprises To Regional Economic Recovery And Poverty Alleviation In East Asia, Charles Harvie

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The economic and social crisis theat afflicted East Asia from mid-1997 produced the biggest setback to poverty reduction in the region for several decades.