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Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Asia and the Pacific –It’s Matter for Economic Performance with the 4th Industrial Revolution
by G.L.D. Wickramasinghe  and  Vathsala Wickramasinghe
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The very nature of work, labor market composition, and skill requirements are severely affected by technology-driven transformations currently underway with the 4th industrial revolution (4IR). The effect of 4IR technologies on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and the contribution of TVET to the labor market is explicit. The paper presents the findings of [...] Read more

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Agglomeration Economies and Rural-to-Urban Migration in India
by Arup Mitra  and  Rajesh Raushan
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Keeping in view the concept of agglomeration economies and the New Economic Geography (NEG) angle, this paper makes an attempt to examine the rural to urban population movement at the district level in India. The findings do not favour a strong positive association between levels of urbanization and migration rates.  However, there exists a cluster of districts which are a [...] Read more
Hit Affiliation:
Department of Economics, South Asian University, Delhi, India

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The Piped Water and Household Food Consumption: Evidence from Cambodia
by Kimty Seng
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This study analyses the effects of piped water on household food consumption per capita by adopting inverse-probability-weighted regression adjustment and endogenous treatment effects approaches with data from the Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey carried out in 2013 and 2017. A complementary analysis of the effects on primary household income per working-age member is also conduc [...] Read more
Hit Affiliation:
Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

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From degrees to dollars: Exploring the link between elite education and startup funding
by Alfredo Molinas
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Many startups look for venture capital (VC) funding to grow their business. Anecdotally, in the Southeast Asia context, startup founders who attended an elite institute of higher learning have greater access to this kind of capital, but this has not been demonstrated quantitatively. We look at a dataset of nearly 800 startups in Southeast Asia who have received VC funding in th [...] Read more

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Interactive influence of house prices and the repo rate on household debt in South Africa
by Juniours Marire
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The recent interest rate policy decisions of the South African Reserve Bank have been criticized significantly by left-leaning political parties and civic society organisations for being anti-poor, anti-labour, and pro-capital because of their implications for household debt. Existing literature has established that interest rates and house prices are insignificant determinants [...] Read more
Hit Affiliation:
Department of Economics and Economic History, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

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Exports of Renewable Energy Goods among RCEP members: Potential and Constraints
by Yichang Liu  and  Kaliappa Kalirajan
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Objective: The paper, specifically examines whether the recently formed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) can potentially facilitate minimising the constraints to renewable energy goods exports at the regional level in Asia. Data, Methodology and Findings: Using the panel data from 11 RCEP members from 2006 to 2014, this study has applied the ‘meta fronti [...] Read more

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Probability of Achieving NDC and Implications for Climate Policy: CO-STIRPAT Approach
by Ick Jin
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This paper presents an analytical framework to assess the probability of achieving nationally determined contributions (NDC). The prediction model based on the Kaya identity is used to simulate the pathway of carbon emission until the target year. Applying the modified STIRPAT framework (named CO-STIRPAT) to data observed in South Korea shows that the probability that the predi [...] Read more