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The Direct and Indirect Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative on Exports to China
ABSTRACT This study investigates the direct effect of a country's participation in China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on that country's exports to China, as well as the indirect effect of such participation on other countries' exports to China. Using panel data covering 187 countries from 2006 to 2023, we employ an event study approach, a staggered
Haonan Li, Yasuyuki Todo
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The Missing Link: When GVC Does Not Matter for Structural Change
ABSTRACT Despite rising levels of Global Value Chains (GVC) integration in several emerging and developing economies, the latter failed to experience a significant structural change. Thus, this paper examines how participating in global supply chains can have implications on labour reallocation in the economy, and to what extent technological advances ...
Mazen Fathy, Chahir Zaki
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Effects of Foreign Aid on Asia–Pacific Total Fertility Rates
ABSTRACT Amid persistently declining and uneven fertility trends across the Asia–Pacific, whether foreign aid actively shapes regional fertility behaviour remains an open empirical question. This study investigates the net effects of sector‐specific foreign aid on total fertility rates (TFRs) across 35 developing Asia–Pacific countries during 2002–2023.
Wesley Steve Aru, Kunio Urakawa
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ABSTRACT SDG 2 ‘Zero Hunger’ has been a global commitment to ensure sufficient healthy food for all. Accounting for more than 40% of south‐east Asiaʼs population, several millions of Indonesians still face the risk of food insecurity despite of large improvements achieved.
Dadan Wardhana, Rico Ihle
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Book Forum | Land of famished beings: West Papuan theories of hunger
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Margaret Jolly +6 more
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Splenic Tropism and Spleen‐Modulated Systemic Inflammation in Acute Plasmodium vivax Malaria
ABSTRACT In chronic Plasmodium vivax (Pv) infection, the spleen accounts for over 98% of total‐body parasite biomass. Whether splenic tropism also occurs in acute infection and how the spleen influences pathogenesis have not been systematically explored. In Papua, Indonesia, we compared clinical and hematology data in 24 spleen‐intact and 25 previously
Steven Kho +27 more
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Land birds on atolls: diversity, origin, and function
ABSTRACT Oceanic islands are global hotspots of avian biodiversity and endemism. Their isolation and distinct environmental conditions have uniquely shaped the evolutionary trajectories of island birds, while, in turn, land bird communities have become critical providers of ecological functions to island ecosystems.
Sebastian Steibl +6 more
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How Are Business Strategy and ESG Performance Associated With Stock Liquidity? Global Insights
ABSTRACT This study examines whether business strategy is associated with stock liquidity and whether environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance conditions this association. Using 58,638 firm‐year observations from 74 countries during 2008–2023, we find no significant association for the continuous strategy score.
Mohammad Sarwar Jahan Rekabder +4 more
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Gender‐Based Violence in Pacific Fisheries
Coastal and offshore fisheries play a vital role in the Pacific Island economies, food security and cultural heritage. While the past two decades has seen increased recognition of gender dimensions of fisheries, managers, practitioners and industry partners have not yet tackled the problem of gender‐based violence (GBV) in the sector.
Sangeeta Mangubhai +3 more
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