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The Effects of Service-Energy Consumption and Cultural Industries on Green Growth in China 服务业、能源消费和文化产业对中国绿色增长的影响

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2026-10-11 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70105

Hang Wang, Haiyu Wang

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Resource Efficiency and Eco-Tourism Performance in Asia: A Cross-Country Panel Analysis 亚洲资源效率与生态旅游绩效：一个跨国面板分析

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2026-10-09 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70098

Hui Chen, Zuoxiang Zhao, Sijie Xie

{"title":"Resource Efficiency and Eco-Tourism Performance in Asia: A Cross-Country Panel Analysis","authors":"Hui Chen, Zuoxiang Zhao, Sijie Xie","doi":"10.1002/app5.70098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/app5.70098","url":null,"abstract":"The resource-efficiency coefficient is not statistically significant in our full-sample model of tourism receipts. The other estimates show why the outcome measure and the treatment of the pandemic period matter to its interpretation. We examine this relationship in a static panel of 14 Asian economies from 2002 to 2022. Inclusion in the sample is determined by data availability in the current World Bank extract. Resource efficiency is the primary explanatory variable, measured as GDP produced per unit of CO2-equivalent emitted. The Fixed Effects baseline uses country-clustered standard errors and controls for population, electricity consumption, internet access, and urbanisation. Receipts as a share of exports yield a positive, statistically significant association with resource efficiency (β = 1.318, p < 0.001); visitor arrivals do not yield a significant association (β = 0.346, p = 0.608). Isolating or controlling for the COVID-19 period strengthens the receipts result, with marginal significance in the pre-COVID specification (β = 0.753, p = 0.055). Taken together, these results favour evaluating resource-efficiency policy in tourism-dependent Asian economies in terms of the economic value generated by tourism, while retaining the conditions under which the association does and does not hold.","PeriodicalId":45839,"journal":{"name":"Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/app5.70098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149125723","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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Effects of Foreign Aid on Asia–Pacific Total Fertility Rates 外援对亚太地区总生育率的影响

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2026-10-08 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70099

Wesley Steve Aru, Kunio Urakawa

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Correction to “Environmental Regulatory Policy Mix and High-Quality Green Economic Development in China” 对“中国环境监管政策组合与绿色经济高质量发展”的修正

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Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2026-10-08 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70103

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Political Ideology and Green Innovation: Cross-National Evidence and Asia-Pacific Policy Implications 政治意识形态与绿色创新：跨国证据与亚太政策启示

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2026-09-24 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70097

Boying Li

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Time as a Policy Resource: Temporal Governance and Administrative Reform in Vietnam, 2024–2026 时间作为政策资源：越南时间治理与行政改革，2024-2026

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Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2026-09-12 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70095

Thanh Hai Do

{"title":"Time as a Policy Resource: Temporal Governance and Administrative Reform in Vietnam, 2024–2026","authors":"Thanh Hai Do","doi":"10.1002/app5.70095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/app5.70095","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how Vietnamese central leadership discourse and reform documents from August 2024 to May 2026 construct time as a scarce policy resource. Drawing on a two-stage documentary corpus—a systematically assembled body of leadership interventions, Party conclusions, government notices, and implementation materials—it traces four moves: diagnosing delay as a political and institutional problem; valuing time as a developmental asset; compressing the 2030 and 2045 horizons into present obligations; and inscribing urgency in reform architecture through streamlining, decentralisation, legal acceleration, reporting rhythms, measurable outputs, and citizen-facing service standards. The article analyses official articulation and representation rather than independently verified administrative outcomes. It shows how this official document set makes time governable by linking waste, opportunity, trust, institutional design, and performance metrics. It contributes to temporal governance scholarship and Vietnam studies by showing how a party-state reform agenda governs through time as well as through institutions within a coherent analytical framework.","PeriodicalId":45839,"journal":{"name":"Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies","volume":"13 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/app5.70095","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994178","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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Financial Inclusion, Higher Education and CO2 Emissions in Asia-Pacific Economies: Evidence From Development-Stage Heterogeneity 亚太经济体的普惠金融、高等教育与二氧化碳排放：来自发展阶段异质性的证据

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2026-09-04 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70092

Wei Wang, Mohamed Elheddad, Rawan Almohanna

{"title":"Financial Inclusion, Higher Education and CO2 Emissions in Asia-Pacific Economies: Evidence From Development-Stage Heterogeneity","authors":"Wei Wang, Mohamed Elheddad, Rawan Almohanna","doi":"10.1002/app5.70092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/app5.70092","url":null,"abstract":"Using an unbalanced panel of 198 country-year observations for 12 Asia-Pacific economies during 2004–2023, this article examines whether financial inclusion and higher education are linked to per capita CO2 emissions in the same way across development stages. The Financial Inclusion Index is built through principal component analysis from ATM density and commercial bank branch density. The empirical analysis reports pooled OLS, fixed-effects, random-effects, panel-corrected standard errors and feasible generalised least squares estimates, with separate results for high-income and developing economies. The evidence is not uniform across the region. In the developing-economy subsample, financial inclusion is negatively associated with emissions, a pattern consistent with technique and composition channels. In the high-income subsample, the coefficient is positive, suggesting that additional access to finance may accompany scale-related consumption and energy use. Tertiary enrolment is positively associated with emissions in developing economies but not statistically significant in high-income economies. GDP per capita remains a positive correlate across specifications, and trade openness is positive in the full and developing-economy panels; urbanisation is not robustly significant. These results support a differentiated policy approach: financial deepening and higher education can contribute to lower-carbon development only when they are steered towards cleaner investment, skills and production structures.","PeriodicalId":45839,"journal":{"name":"Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies","volume":"13 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/app5.70092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148942507","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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Environmental Regulatory Policy Mix and High-Quality Green Economic Development in China 中国环境监管政策组合与绿色经济高质量发展

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2026-09-02 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70094

Sumin Tao, Wei Chen, Pei Chen, Xinjie Shi

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The Policy of Foreign Bank Entry and Export Upgrading: Evidence From Chinaʼs WTO Accession 外资银行进入政策与出口升级：来自中国加入WTO的证据

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2026-08-14 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70093

Yan Zhang, Wenyi Zhou

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Lubricating Role of Supply Chain Vertical Common Ownership in the Breakthrough of Key Core Technology: Evidence and Policy Implications From China 供应链纵向共有在关键核心技术突破中的润滑作用：来自中国的证据与政策启示

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2026-08-03 DOI: 10.1002/app5.70091

Jiejin Xia, Tao Xiong, Tanling Tang

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