Report NEP-SEA-2025-05-19

This is the archive for NEP-SEA, a report on new working papers in the area of South East Asia. Kavita Iyengar issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Aldaba, Rafaelita M., 2025. "Navigating a New Era of Reciprocal Tariffs: Strategic Implications for the Philippines and Selected ASEAN Economies," Discussion Papers DP 2025-06, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
• bin Haimid, Mohd Tarmizi & Tanrattanaphong, Borworn, 2025. "Policy Comparison between Malaysia and Thailand: Towards Sustainable Shrimp Industry," ARE Working Papers 356883, Kasetsart University - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
• Adrian R. Mendoza, 2025. "Navigating turbulent waters: The Philippines’ global value chains experience amid trade wars," UP School of Economics Discussion Papers 202501, University of the Philippines School of Economics.
• Ulep, Valerie Gilbert T. & Manuel, Aaron Carlos G. & Tomas, Therese Jules P. & Carreon, Danielle Lois M. & Dagoy, Louie Iyar L., 2025. "The State of Health Infrastructure Investments in the Philippines and Assessment of the Health Facility Enhancement Program (HFEP)," Discussion Papers DP 2025-05, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
• Rivera, John Paolo R. & Lim, Valerie L. & Sinsay-Villanueva, Leih Maruss & Garcia, Glenda Darlene V. & Tanyag, Ivan Harris & Berroya, Jenard D. & Orbeta, Aniceto C. Jr., 2025. "Quality Education Starting with Teacher Education," Discussion Papers DP 2025-04, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
• Nguyen-Phung, Hang Thu & Le, Hai, 2023. "Urbanization and Health Expenditure: An Empirical Investigation from Households in Vietnam," AGI Working Paper Series 2023-06, Asian Growth Research Institute.
• Luong-Thanh Tran & Andreas Freytag, 2025. "Branding Vietnam: A Product Space Analysis of How Export Diversification Can Shape Up the Country’s Sustainable and Innovative Growth," CESifo Working Paper Series 11836, CESifo.
• Trung, Tran Thanh & Vinh, Vo Xuan & Lan, Trần Thị Ngọc, 2025. "Chất lượng nền tảng trực tuyến trong xây dựng niềm tin và hành vi mua hàng của người tiêu dùng," OSF Preprints 8dfst_v1, Center for Open Science.
• Ines A. Ferreira & Rachel M. Gisselquist & Finn Tarp, 2025. "Absolute versus relative inequality and social preferences: A comparative study between Mozambique and Viet Nam," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2025-24, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
• Imaduddin Abdullah & Andy Sumner, 2025. "Linkage development as industrial policy: The state and structural transformation in resource-rich countries," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2025-29, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
• Fabien Le Floc'h, 2025. "Asian Basket Spread Options: A New Approximation Based on Stochastic Taylor Expansions," Papers 2504.16011, arXiv.org, revised Apr 2025.
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• Muhammad Zakir Abdullah, 2025. "Impact of Climate Change on Paddy Productivity in Malaysia's Granary Areas: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Analysis ," GATR Journals afr238, Global Academy of Training and Research (GATR) Enterprise.
• Nuarpear Lekfuangfu & Nuttapol Lertmethaphat, 2025. "Building Thailand’s Beveridge Curve: New Insights of Thailand’s Labour Markets with Internet Job Platforms," PIER Discussion Papers 232, Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research.
• Jonas HJORT & Yukiko SAITO & Yasuka TATEISHI & Linda WU, 2025. "Wage and Employment of Japanese Multinational Enterprises in Vietnam," Discussion papers 25037, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
• Dror, David Mark, 2025. "Beyond Financial Protection: A Comprehensive Framework for Value for Money in Health Insurance for Informal Sector Populations," EconStor Preprints 316219, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
• Noam Angrist & Sarah Kabay & Dean Karlan & Lincoln Lau & Kevin Wong, 2025. "Human Capital at Home: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in the Philippines," NBER Working Papers 33574, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Velasco, Lawrence G. & Medina-Guce, Czarina & Rey, Anne Marie T., 2025. "Baseline Study on the State of Participation in Local Government Units: Participatory Governance Metrics for Local Development Councils," Discussion Papers DP 2025-07, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
• Tan, Jolene & Cui, Qi & Uchikoshi, Fumiya, 2025. "The increasing importance of changes in nuptiality: policy mismatch and fertility decline in low-fertility Asian societies," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 127749, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
• Lee, Christopher M., 2025. "Insights about Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Research on today's Technological Economy," OSF Preprints huj5w_v1, Center for Open Science.
• Hoang-Anh Le, 2025. "The impact of institutional quality on the relation between FDI and house prices in ASEAN emerging countries," Papers 2504.13459, arXiv.org.
• Bruno Bouchard & Xiaolu Tan, 2025. "Unbiased simulation of Asian options," Papers 2504.16349, arXiv.org.
• Finnegan, Amy, 2025. "Seasonal Contraceptive Discontinuation Patterns: An analysis using the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) contraceptive calendar in 6 countries," SocArXiv xhpyb_v1, Center for Open Science.
• Bin Ramli, Muhammad Sukri, 2025. "ENHANCING JOB ROTATION ONBOARDING IN THE MALAYSIAN PUBLIC SECTOR: A NotebookLM Large Language Model Case Study," OSF Preprints gjv9r_v1, Center for Open Science.
• Samuel Bazzi & Masyhur Hilmy & Benjamin Marx & Mahvish Shaukat & Andreas Stegmann, 2025. "It Takes a Village Election: Turnover and Performance in Local Bureaucracies," NBER Working Papers 33533, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Ramstetter, Eric D., 2024. "Stories about Institutions and Patterns of Slow Economic Growth from 21st Century Thailand," AGI Working Paper Series 2024015, Asian Growth Research Institute.
• Mandon, Pierre Jean-Claude, 2025. "Beyond the AI Divide : A Simple Approach to Identifying Global and Local Overperformers in AI Preparedness," Policy Research Working Paper Series 11073, The World Bank.
• Chea, Vybol & Chautagnat, Jean Luc & Sophat, Phon, 2025. "Embedding Innovation and Entrepreneurial Culture in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Cambodia," EconStor Preprints 316321, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
• Bin Ramli, Muhammad Sukri, 2024. "A Framework for AI-Enabled Nuclear Emergency Response: A Case Study of Malaysia's MySejahtera and its Applicability to National Digital Health Strategies," OSF Preprints v2c4q_v1, Center for Open Science.
• Dante B. Canlas & Karl Robert L. Jandoc, 2025. "Promoting Competition and Regulatory Reforms in Franchising Electricity Distribution," UP School of Economics Discussion Papers 202502, University of the Philippines School of Economics.