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    Understanding the Decline of China's State Sector

    Yi** Huang, Wing Thye Woo, Ron Duncan in MOST: Economic Policy in Transitional Economies (1998)

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    Lessons from the Asian Financial Crisis, and the Prospects for Resuming High Growth

    Broadly speaking, there were two initial explanations for the unexpected nature of the Asian financial crisis. The first explanation emphasized the common structural problems (soft rot) in the crisis Asian cou...

    Wing Thye Woo in Exchange Rate Regimes and Macroeconomic Stability (2003)

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    Dealing sensibly with the threat of disruption in trade with China: the analytics of increased economic interdependence and accelerated technological innovation

    There is now widespread concern in Washington over the large and growing U.S.-China trade deficit. This concern is premised on the view that the large trade deficit has reduced U.S. welfare by increasing unemp...

    Wing Thye Woo in Economic Change and Restructuring (2007)

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    The Challenges of Governance Structure, Trade Disputes and Natural Environment to China's Growth

    Viewing the Chinese economy as a speeding car, there are three types of development that could crash the car: (1) a hardware failure, which is the breakdown of an economic mechanism (analogous to the collapse ...

    Wing Thye Woo in Comparative Economic Studies (2007)

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    Who Should Join the WTO and Why?: A Cost-benefit Analysis of WTO Membership

    The most striking features of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are, arguably, its membership list and the changes in the list over time. Despite widespread concerns about globalization and about the role of ...

    Zdenek Drabek, Wing Thye Woo in Is the World Trade Organization Attractive… (2010)

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    Technological innovation policy in China: the lessons, and the necessary changes ahead

    China has now moved considerably away from being an imitative latecomer to technology toward to being an innovation-driven economy. The key lessons from China’s experience are that (1) there is synergy between...

    **aolan Fu, Wing Thye Woo, Jun Hou in Economic Change and Restructuring (2016)

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    Handbook of Green Finance

    Energy Security and Sustainable Development

    Prof. Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Wing Thye Woo in Sustainable Development (2019)

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    Importance of Green Finance for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals and Energy Security

    In 2017, global investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency declined by 3% and there is a risk that it will slow further. Clearly, fossil fuels still dominate energy investments. This could threaten t...

    Jeffrey D. Sachs, Wing Thye Woo, Naoyuki Yoshino in Handbook of Green Finance (2019)

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    Importance of Green Finance for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals and Energy Security

    In 2017, global investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency declined by 3% and there is a risk that it will slow further. Clearly, fossil fuels still dominate energy investments. This could threaten t...

    Jeffrey D. Sachs, Wing Thye Woo, Naoyuki Yoshino in Handbook of Green Finance

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    Book and Living Reference Work (Continuously updated edition)

    Handbook of Green Finance

    Energy Security and Sustainable Development

    Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Wing Thye Woo in Sustainable Development

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    Achieving Excellence in Sustainable Development Goals in Sunway University Malaysia

    The Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development (JSC) was established in 2016 to promote United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a generous grant of USD 10 million from the Jeffrey Cheah ...

    Wing Thye Woo, Hock Lye Koh, Su Yean Teh in Universities as Living Labs for Sustainabl… (2020)

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    Explaining Malaysia’s Past Economic Growth

    Post-independence Malaysia has achieved significant economic growth: faster than that of most of the develo** countries of Africa and Latin America, slower than the tiger economies of Northeast Asia, and sim...

    Dwight Heald Perkins, Rajah Rasiah, Wing-Thye Woo in Malaysia’s Leap Into the Future (2022)