Browsing Working Papers by Author "Freire, Clovis"
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Building productive capacities : challenges and opportunities for Least Developed Countries
Freire, Clovis (United Nations, 2012)Building productive capacities is a top priority for least developed countries to promote development and graduate from the status of least developed country. This paper discusses the challenges and the opportunities for ... -
Euro zone debt crisis : scenario analysis and implications for developing Asia-Pacific
Freire, Clovis; Puapan, Pisit; Basu, Sudip Ranjan; Tateno, Yusuke; Sirimaneetham, Vatcharin (United Nations, 2012)The ongoing euro zone debt crisis creates an undesirable scenario for the global economy as well as for the Asia-Pacific region given that the region has close economic linkages. The paper aims to provide quantitative ... -
High food and oil prices and their impact on the achievement of MDG 1 in Asia and the Pacific
Freire, Clovis; Isgut, Alberto E. (United Nations, 2011)This paper estimates the impact of the high food prices of 2010 on income poverty and the achievement of MDG 1 in Asia and the Pacific. It also estimates the impacts of high price during 2011 under various scenarios for ... -
High food prices in Asia-Pacific : policy initiatives in view of supply uncertainty and price volatility
Freire, Clovis; Hasan, Aynul; Malik, M. Hussain (United Nations, 2012)High food prices have put increasing inflationary pressures across the Asia-Pacific region and threatened food security. Bad weather in important food-producing countries and speculation in commodity markets have affected ... -
Impact of health expenditure on achieving the health-related MDGs
Freire, Clovis; Kajiura, Nobuko (United Nations, 2011)This paper analyses the effect of public and private health expenditures on the achievement of health-related MDGs. It finds that three quarters of the variation of health-related MDG indicators can be explained by public ... -
In which industries to invest? aligning market and development incentives in Myanmar
Freire, Clovis; Ayres, Steven (United Nations, 2012)This paper argues that, with the removal of international sanctions and the opening up of the economy, fostering economic activity and facilitating investment in new and more productive industries will best facilitate ... -
Productive capacities in Asia and the Pacific
Freire, Clovis (United Nations, 2011)The paper provides quantitative estimates of the productive capacities of the countries in the Asia-Pacific region and their evolution in the past 25 years. It updates the results for 2009 presented in the ESCAP’s Economic ... -
The role of agriculture in closing development gaps of LDCs
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Social and economic impact of disasters : estimating the threshold between low and high levels of risk
Freire, Clovis (United Nations, 2011)Catastrophes caused by natural hazards that hit “without warning” serve as grim reminders of the challenge that governments and civil society face in identifying and protecting the areas that are at risk of extreme events. ... -
Strategies for structural transformation in countries in South and South-West Asia
Freire, Clovis (United Nations, 2012)This paper approaches inclusive development in South and South-West Asia through the framework of structural transformation and productive capacities. It discusses the opportunities for these countries to build their ...