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Global Change and East Asian Policy Initiatives
No full textMany East Asian economies have grown
briskly in the past few years. However, future development
will depend on the quality and timeliness of regional and
national policy actions. The policy agenda must address the
problems that buffeted the region in the late
1990s-associated with the weakness of domestic institutions
and policies in the context of globalization. These problems
include financial shocks, rapid shifts in the
competitiveness of major exports, changes in international
production networking, and significant reconfiguration in
the geographical composition of production systems that had
provided the foundation for growth. Sustaining dynamism in
East Asia requires policy initiatives that contain the risks
from shocks and manage the ongoing shifts and changes in
ways that enhance both the competitiveness of firms and the
stability of the economies. This report provides specific
policy responses that could be employed to navigate
successfully through periods of economic, political, and
technological turbulence. The book is a collection of
studies by leading experts in such fields as corporate and
political governance, economic policy, globalization, higher
education, legal reform, regional integration, and social
protection. The studies reflect the most current thinking
and research on global, regional, and national policies of
relevance to East Asian economies. It is an important
resource for policymakers, researchers and students
interested in East Asia
Global Production Networking and Technological Change in East Asia
Get PDFThis book examines the effects of the
changing global geography of production for the growth
prospects of East Asian economies. The authors conclude that
in the face of a global environment, economies in East Asia
need to adapt to the changing character of global production
networks and to nurture and develop technological
capabilities in order to sustain their growth prospects.
This is the third volume in a series of publications from a
study co-sponsored by the Government of Japan and the World
Bank to examine the sources of economic growth in East Asia.
The study was initiated in 1999 with the objective of
identifying the most promising path to development in the
light of global and regional changes
Effects of the crisis on the automotive industry in developing countries : a global value chain perspective
Get PDFThis paper applies global value chain analysis to study recent trends in the global automotive industry. The authors pay special attention to the effects of the recent economic crisis on the industry in developing countries. The principal finding is that the crisis has accelerated pre-crisis trends toward greater importance of the industry in the South. More rapid growth of car ownership is the impetus, but the co-location and close interaction of suppliers and lead firms in this industry is an important catalyst. Opportunities to move up in the value chain for suppliers in emerging economies have proliferated and are likely to become even stronger now that an increasing number of new models are developed specifically for markets in developing countries. The co-location of assembly and parts plants in national and regional production systems has largely confined the impact of sales declines during the crisis to each country/region. In addition, the different development strategies followed by countries like Mexico, China, and India are slowly converging as their industries gain size and independence.Markets and Market Access,Microfinance,Labor Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Debt Markets
Raising the Quality of Secondary Education in East Asia
No full textThe author seeks to broaden our
understanding of the determinants of student achievement
among East Asian economies using the TIMSS-R data set and,
in the process, to remedy some of the ambiguities in the
literature to date. These ambiguities are frequently due to
the sparseness of detailed data on students, teachers, and
schools. The TIMSS-R data set offers detailed information on
these variables, which is not typically available from other
sources, allowing the author to isolate the impact of
various factors affecting student achievement, while
controlling for specific characteristics of the students,
teachers, and schools surveyed. The results indicate that
the most consistent factors affecting student performance
are characteristics associated with students (innate
abilities and home resources). Moreover, the author does not
find any consistent relationship between the performance of
students and school resources or teacher autonomy, both of
which are often advocated in the discussion of education reform
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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