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Income Distribution and Sovereign Credibility in Emerging Market Countries
My proposed research will explore how income inequality affects the investor perceptions of sovereign creditworthiness in emerging market countries around the world. Building credibility in financial markets is an important task if governments are to prevent capital flight and maintain market stability. Earning market ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2013/cho-income-distribution-sovereign-credibility
Language learning by ageing populations from emerging markets: an empirical study in China
Emerging markets, China, for instance, is facing one of the great demographic challenges brought about by rapidly ageing populations and a prevalence of dementia. Learning new languages, for instance, novel words helps keep the elderly cognitively active and possibly delays the incidence of dementia. ...
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Growth and development of children living in subdivided units in Hong Kong
This study will investigate the growth (weight and height) and development (motor and cognitive development) of children living in subdivided units (SDUs) in Hong Kong. SDU environment can give rise to a range of problems that are detrimental to early child outcomes that can persist to adulthood, but research on ...
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Age discrimination in China’s workforce: Whether and how it impacts young job incumbents
Workplace age discrimination is pervasive in China. Research attention has been placed to investigate how workplace age discrimination adversely influences the older Chinese employees, but less is known about whether and how younger job incumbents, who are not the direct victim of age discrimination, would react to ...
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Manufacturing Powerhouse or Technology Playground? Unpacking the Varieties of Industrial Parks in ASEAN
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) stands as one of the most economically vibrant regions in the world. Most of this vibrancy is due to the developmental strategy of governments in the region. Yet current research has yet to unpack and carefully examine how these developmental strategies translate into ...
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