Essays about: "east asia business"
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1. Socio-economic and Demographic Factors associated with Fertility – Southeast and East Asian Evidence
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Over the last three decades, Southeast and East Asian countries have experienced a substantial fertility decline. The socio-economic and demographic determinants appear to be important in explaining the fertility transition experienced in the region. READ MORE
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2. Social Capabilities and Technology Capability: a comparative study of Arab countries and East-Asian economies
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis argues that the reason behind the lack of sustained economic growth in the Middle East compared to East Asia lies in the technology gap between the two regions, and it attempts to find an explanation for it. Through an empirically supported narrative, the paper applies the social capability framework to explain the low level of technology capability in the Arab region. READ MORE
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3. The impact of democratic transitions on innovation. An empirical panel analysis of 168 countries from 1960-2019.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis empirically examines the impact of democratic transitions on innovation using a difference-in-differences method on a panel of 168 countries from 1960 to 2019. Patents, R&D expenditure, and scientific articles are employed as proxies for innovation. The results indicate that democratisations have a positive effect on patents. READ MORE
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4. Social Capability and Resilience to Economic Shrinking - An innovative Perspective on Growth and the Income Divergence between Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia & Pacific
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Since the beginning of the 1960’s, there has been a widening gap in GDP per capita between the countries in the regions of East Asia & Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa. By growing more and shrinking less, some but not all, developing countries have deviated from a state of underdevelopment and caught up with the developed world. READ MORE
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5. Indigenous rights in changing forest landscapes in South-East Asia : How narratives in science and practice frame indigenous environmental justice and stewardship
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience CentreAbstract : Indigenous environmental justice and rights to land are often compromised in favour of state and corporate land control. Narratives that oppose indigenous peoples to development and conservation, and portray communities as either “backwards” or “environmentally destructive”, have been used since the colonial period to justify dispossession of indigenous lands and displacements of indigenous peoples. READ MORE
