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Rural Transformation, GVCs and the Rise of the Services Economy

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70018

Christopher Findlay, Hein Roelfsema

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Stage Segmentation of Rural Transformation and Comparisons Among Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, and Pakistan: Combining Machine Learning and New Structural Economics to Facilitate International Agricultural Development and Policy Design

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70016

Dong Wang, Chunlai Chen, Christopher Findlay, Jikun Huang, Justin Yifu Lin, Abedullah, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Abid Hussain, Nunung Nuryartono, Tahlim Sudaryanto, David Shearer

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Extended Maternity Leave and Female Labour Supply: Evidence From a Regional Policy in China

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Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-22 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70017

Mingzhi Hu, Yinxin Su

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Supporting ‘Doing Development Differently’ Effectively: Analysing Attributes, Networks and Impacts of Donor-Supported Pacific Development Coalitions

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Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70013

Aidan Craney, Dan Chamberlain, Chris Roche

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Human Capital, Income Inequality, and Health: Analysing Heterogeneous Dynamics Across Income Groups

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Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70008

Wendy Irena Guerra Castillo, Ci Sheng Wu, Frank Osei-Kusi

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Does the Digital Economy Promote Renewable Energy?—Evidence From a Cross-National Sample

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70015

Lin liu, Jing Liu, Jianing Zhang, Yiyang Zhao

{"title":"Does the Digital Economy Promote Renewable Energy?—Evidence From a Cross-National Sample","authors":"Lin liu, Jing Liu, Jianing Zhang, Yiyang Zhao","doi":"10.1002/app5.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/app5.70015","url":null,"abstract":"Renewable energy is one of the key factors in mitigating climate change and achieving sustainable development. With digital technology at its core, the digital economy has gradually become a new driving force for renewable energy development. However, few studies have examined the impact of the digital economy on renewable energy from a global perspective and explored the transmission mechanisms. Based on the cross-country data of 68 countries (regions) from 2013 to 2021, this paper adopts a panel model to study the impacts of the digital economy on renewable energy. The results show that (1) digital economy has a positive impact on renewable energy; (2) the impact of digital economy on renewable energy is asymmetric and heterogeneous; (3) the impact of digital economy on renewable energy development has obvious threshold characteristics; (4) digital economy indirectly affects renewable energy through technological innovation and financial development. The research in this paper provides a theoretical basis for promoting renewable energy development and a reference and guidance for countries to realize sustainable development in the context of the digital economy.","PeriodicalId":45839,"journal":{"name":"Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies","volume":"12 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/app5.70015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143119968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Gendered Corruption: How Gender Norms Underpin Experiences of Corruption in Asian and Pacific Countries

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Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70010

Caryn Peiffer

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Provincial Climate Action Index and Its Use for Assessing Dual Carbon Policy of 31 Provinces in China

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Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70014

Jing Xu, Fengqiao Mei, Chuntian Lu, Bin Zhang, Min Wang

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Understanding ASEAN Centrality: Comparative Analysis of ‘Core’ and ‘Hub’ Strategies

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Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-12 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70006

Shintaro Hamanaka

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The Elite Paradigm Driving Australian Aid Policy: Learning to Live With the ‘Cautious Consensus’

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Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-12 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70009

Benjamin Day, Tamas Wells

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