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The Aid-India Consortium, the World Bank, and the International Order of Asia, 1958-1968

  • Akita, Shigeru
    • Asian review of World Histories
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    • 제2권2호
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    • pp.217-248
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    • 2014
  • The Aid-India Consortium was organized in 1958 as an international scheme to support the economic development of India, and led by the World Bank. This article reconsiders the economic diplomacy of the Indian Government in the 1950s and 1960s, by paying attention to the interactions between the Indian authorities and the donor countries and institutions, in the context of the Cold War regime, decolonization and economic aid to the newly independent countries. First, it deals with the development of the Aid-India Consortium by considering debates at its annual meetings and the skillful negotiations of the Indian Government and financial authorities. It focuses especially on the leading role of an Indian diplomat and financial expert, B. K. Nehru. The article then tries to reveal an Indian initiative in solving the 'food crises' of 1965-67 through intimate collaboration with the US government and the World Bank, using the framework of the Aid-India Consortium. These attempts lead to a reconsideration of the economic order of Asia in the 1950s and 1960s.

World Bank와 ILO/ISSA의 사회보장연금 민영화 논쟁에 관한 연구 (The Social Security Pension Reform Debate between the World Bank and the ILO/ISSA)

  • 원석조
    • 한국사회복지학
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    • 제46권
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    • pp.290-318
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    • 2001
  • In 1981, Chile has fundamentally reformed the public pension system from the pay-as-you-go system (PAYGs) to the full funding defined contribution system managed by the private funding companies. The Chilean privatization reform influenced not only the neighbor South American countries but also the advanced countries. The United Kingdom contracted out the state earning related pension system. Australia and Sweden recently introduced the private investment accounts system. And now the hot debates on the privatization of the social security pension is going on in the United States of America. This wind of privatizing the public pension system is being backed up by the New Liberalism, the nowadays' strongest ideology. Besides, the theoretical and idealogical debate between the World Bank and the ILO/ISSA was happened in the middle of 1990s. The World Bank, the supporter of the international financial capital, insisted the introducing of the full funding individual accounts system and the abolition of the existing PAYGs. The ILO/ISSA apposed the World Bank's policies and advocated the moderate reform of the PAYGs. In this paper, I reviewed the Chilean reform, the World Bank's report and the opposing argument of the ILO/ISSA against it, and analysed the core issues of the two sides. Also, I tried to present the suggestions to the Korean public pension systems. Through the discussing the debate, we made certain of the importance of the basic issues in the social security system like equity vs. adequacy, inter-generational redistribution vs. intra-generational redistribution and welfare vs. economy, once again.

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Bank Capital, Efficiency and Risk: Evidence from Islamic Banks

  • ISNURHADI, Isnurhadi;ADAM, Mohamad;SULASTRI, Sulastri;ANDRIANA, Isni;MUIZZUDDIN, Muizzuddin
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • 제8권1호
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    • pp.841-850
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    • 2021
  • This study aims to evaluate the relationship between bank capital, efficiency, and risk in Islamic banks. We use data from 129 Islamic banks in the world, retrieved from various data sources. We retrieved specific banking data from Moody's Analytics BankFocus and Thomson Reuters Eikon, while data at the country level was obtained from the World Bank website. This study uses various estimates both Pooled OLS (Ordinary Least Square) and Random Effect (RE). However, to overcome the issue of serial correlation which could cause bias in the results of the study, we used fixed-effect (FE) cluster estimates. The research results confirm the previous findings that bank capital positively affects bank stability (natural logarithm of Z-Score) and negatively affects credit risk (loan loss provision to total liabilities). The findings also show that efficiency has the same effect. The interaction test of bank capital and efficiency shows that efficiency encourages banks to reduce risk, including when bank capital is relatively lower. This finding is expected to have implications for the authorities to boost bank efficiency in addition to establishing several regulations related to capital. The efficiency implemented by the bank will encourage banks to act prudently so that the bank can maintain its performance through risk mitigation.

국내은행 외환수수료의 국제경쟁력 비교 (The Comparison for International competitiveness of Domestic Banks' Foreign exchange commissions)

  • 안영태
    • 통상정보연구
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    • 제10권1호
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    • pp.315-327
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    • 2008
  • According to the Bank Profitabilities Statistics of OECD members, Our domestic banks applying commissions for both exchange and selling/buying foreign currencies are evaluated as much higher than those of other countries banks. The theory indicates an analysis results and comparison in between banks over the world. Our domestic bank assert that, in general, the aggregated banking commission income is lower than those of other countries by comparing in the field of non-interests profits. Viewing by another analysis in details, some commission rate applying to domestic services are far below than cost basis, but other commission rate applying to foreign currency transaction services is abnormally higher. Such unfair rate should be lowered to the similar level to other banks in the world and also the actual cost should be reasonably reevaluated in the reasonable manner. One more thing, The writer suggest that domestic banks should spend efforts to increase their income by improving and diversifying with the various type of new commissions applied to domestic market, such as multi-functional financial services, expanding ATM services, electronic settling technique etc under today's rapidly changing and opening world financial market.

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Trade in Developing East Asia: How It Has Changed and Why It Matters

  • Constantinescu, Cristina;Mattoo, Aaditya;Ruta, Michele
    • East Asian Economic Review
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    • 제22권4호
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    • pp.427-465
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    • 2018
  • East Asia, for long the epitome of successful engagement in trade, faces serious challenges: technological change that may threaten the very model of labor intensive industrialization and a backlash against globalization that may reduce access to important markets. The analysis in this article suggests that how East Asia copes with these global challenges will depend on how it addresses three more proximate national and regional challenges. The first is the emergence of China as a global trade giant, which is fundamentally altering the trading patterns and opportunities of its neighbors. The second is the asymmetric implementation of national reform - in goods trade and investment versus services - which is affecting the evolution of comparative advantage and productivity in each country. The third is the divergence between the relatively shallow and fragmented agreements that regulate the region's trade and investment and the growing importance of regional and global value chains as crucial drivers of productivity growth.

The Impact of Tax Evasion on Afghanistan's Economy

  • TAWHEED, Qais;CONG, Wang;RAFIQEE, Noorullah;QADERI, Khwaja Bahman;SHARIFI, Mohammad Shabir;HALIMI, Muhammad Shekaib
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • 제9권9호
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    • pp.317-325
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    • 2022
  • The simple regression model (SRM) is used in this study to look at potential economic growth-influencing factors. The sample's period runs from 2005 to 2019. The data was gathered from various ministries and government agencies such as the Central Bank of Afghanistan's Statistical Bulletin, the World Bank, the United Nations (UN), World Bank open data, NASA, Ministry of Finance (MoF), Ministry of Economy (MoE), and Central Bank of Afghanistan's Statistical Bulletin (CBA), as well as the internet and news. There is an urgent need to ensure that taxes are collected in the most efficient manner possible because one of the enormous management gaps in Afghanistan over the last two decades has been tax evasion. According to the results of this study, tax evasion has a negative and significant impact on Afghanistan's economic growth. We can affirm that the subject of this article is among the most significant topics recently discussed in my country. If the right solutions are implemented, It can significantly contribute to quickening the cycle of the developing Afghan economy and turning it from an unstable to a sustainable one.

세계은행 공적개발원조사업의 엔지니어링 기업 간 협력관계 예측모델 개발 (Predicting Cooperative Relationships between Engineering Companies in World Bank's ODA Projects)

  • 유영수;구본상;이관훈;한승헌
    • 한국건설관리학회논문집
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    • 제20권6호
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    • pp.107-116
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    • 2019
  • 국내 건설 엔지니어링 기업은 해외 실적 향상을 위한 방안으로 세계은행의 공적개발원조 사업을 통한 해외시장 확장의 발판을 마련하고자 한다. 하지만 세계은행 사업은 한정된 사업을 두고 다수의 글로벌 기업과 경쟁하기 때문에 입찰경쟁에서 우위를 선점하고, 수원국의 제도적 조건을 충족하기 위해 적합한 사업파트너와의 협력관계 구축이 필수적이다. 이러한 협력관계를 통한 입찰 전략 구축의 일환으로 사회 네트워크 분석을 이용한 다수의 과거 네트워크 분석 연구가 진행된 바 있으나, 네트워크의 변화과정을 기반으로 분석한 연구는 드물다. 이에 본 연구는 세계은행 ODA 사업이 원활히 시행된 후 종료된 아시아 3개국의 낙찰 데이터를 수집하고, 네트워크의 동적 변화를 반영한 학습기반 링크예측 모델을 구축하였다. 그 결과 낙찰기업들 간 협력관계 구축에 작용하는 11가지 주요 요인을 도출하고, 각 변수가 개별 링크의 협력 여부 확률 값에 미치는 영향을 확인하였다.

Trade, Trade Finance, and Global Liquidity in Asia; Markov-Switching FAVAR Approach

  • Brooks, Douglas H.;Kurmanalieva, Elvira;Yang, Doo Yong
    • East Asian Economic Review
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    • 제20권3호
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    • pp.339-363
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    • 2016
  • This paper analyzes why the global financial crisis in 2008 severely affected Asia's trade. Asia has been suffering from the falls in export demand from developed countries. However the abrupt trade declines in Asia are not fully explained by reactions to this as in previous experiences. The question is why the financial crisis in 2008 brought about the abrupt and deep collapse in world trade, while other world-wide recessions had more moderate effects on world trade. This paper shows that the dynamic relationship between trade and trade finance is one important factor in explaining this question. This paper also applies the Granger (causality) test to uncover different relationships in the developed and developing economies and show different results for different countries in Asia. We employ a Markov-Switching FAVAR (Factor Augmented VAR) to show that global liquidity shocks are important factors in explaining the huge and abrupt trade drops in Asia.