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ItemTransgender youth inclusion in healthcare in Southeast Asia: Insights from Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines(Youth LEAD, Asia Pacific Network of Young Key Populations, 2022)
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ItemMore Sticks and Fewer Carrots? Looking Ahead to Implementation of Environmental Policy Under the ‘New Normal’(Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School for Science and International Affairs, 2020-02)
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ItemCOVID-19 highlights need to strengthen china’s social safety net (i): the unemployment insurance scheme(East Asian Institute, 2020-12-24)
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ItemFiscal reform in the Xi Jinping era and the state of local public finance(East Asian Institute, NUS, 2021-07-09)
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ItemUsing the Government Financial Reporting Framework to Redraw the State and Market Boundary in China: A Two-Step Approach(The World Bank, 2018)After four decades of remarkable economic achievement under market reforms, the leadership has called for a reset in the boundary between the State and the Market as an important corrective to help China sustain rapid economic growth, by imposing hard budget constraints on government and insulating SOEs from local government predation. This could start with revealing and reviewing the current operation and finance of the government through the new Government financial reporting framework (GFRS). The sheer size of SOEs and their engagement in provision and finance of public goods and services poses great challenge for China to immediately adopt international standard for GFRS. Given their huge size and diverse characteristics, it is neither correct nor practical to include all SOEs in the public sector. We therefore proposed a two-step approach for using the GFRS to redraw the boundary of the state and market. The first step is to adopt an accounting framework that aims to provide a comprehensive count of government operation and finance, focuses on the fiscal impact of entities, and simplifies the reporting requirements for the vast majority of SOEs. The second step is to review the government operation and finance with an economic framework. It is also hoped that the exercise itself will stimulate further reform of SOEs and a rethinking of the division of responsibilities between government and market. While one should not expect to reach a clear and ideal division between the state and market overnight, with successive iterations, the exercise will lead incrementally to greater clarity and improvements, as the process of implementing the GFRS sets off a beneficent cycle for China’s economic transformation to a higher quality and sustainable growth.
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ItemChina’s 2022 budget and the fate of local government finance(East Asian Institute, NUS, 2022-04-07)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableGet out of the Diplomatic Freezer: Bring Back the Chinese Students(The Australia Institute, 2021-04-01)
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ItemShould Australia go to War with China in Defence of Taiwan?(Australia Institute, 2021-07-09)In April this year, Australians were warned by no less an expert than the former Minister for Defence, Christopher Pyne, that they may need to engage in a ‘kinetic’ war with China in the next five to ten years. This warning was followed up by a senior member of the national security bureaucracy advising Australians, in terms more ominous than bureaucrats normally use, that “the drums of war beat”.