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Analysis of Current Account and Real Exchange Rate: Lower Middle Income Countries in Association of Southeast Asian Nations

The study investigates the simultaneous equation model of the current account and real exchange rates in group of lower middle income in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). This study uses time series from 2000-2017 (18 years) and cross section 6 countries (Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Lao, Myanmar, and Cambodia). There are three important findings in this study; first, for the current account is financial development has positive effect while government spending and foreign direct investment have negative effect; second, for the real exchange rate is economic openness, money supply, and interest rate have positive effect while foreign direct investment and current account have negative effect; third, only current account affects real exchange rates. Therefore, it is highly recommended for group of lower middle income in ASEAN to intervene in monetary policy variables so that uncontrolled deficits and fluctuations can achieve equilibrium in group of lower middle income in ASEAN.

Access to Preferential Loans for Poverty Reduction and Rural Development: Evidence from Vietnam

:Preferential loans play an important role in the process of reducing poverty in developing countries. Considering the data set from the 2010 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey, we aim to examine the influential factors in probability of households getting access to preferential loans. Additionally, we analyze the determinants of household income in association with the loans by applying a quantile regression model. Our results show that ethnicity-related factors have the largest marginal effect on the access to preferential loans. The results from the quantile regression model demonstrate that the debt factor has a deeper impact on the borrowing group at the lower quantiles of household income.

A sequence stratigraphic investigation of a Miocene formation supported by coal seam quality parameters – Central Paratethys, N-Hungary

A stratigraphic investigation of the coal-bearing Miocene siliciclastic succession in structurally dissected basins of Northern Hungary was performed based on log correlations and is supported by coal petrology and sulphur data. The succession represents the Karpatian lower order global eustatic cycle of the Paratethys and was dissected into six higher order sedimentary sequences (sq-1 – sq-6). The coal-bearing strata in the Nógrád Basin (sq-1 – sq3) represent a lowstand systems tract (LST) prior to the Karpatian relative sea level rise. The transgressive systems tract (TST) starts with the ‘Oncophora Beds’ (sq-4) accumulated above a regional unconformity and containing coal beds in the Borsod Basin. The TST is superimposed by tectonically-forced higher order lowstand systems tracts (sq-5, sq-6) containing coal beds only in the relatively elevated East Borsod Basin.To support the sequence stratigraphic model, the average maceral and sulphur content of coal seams was also interpreted. The low sulphur (0.47%) content in sq.-1 reflects the lowstand environment determined by continental derived freshwater input. Transitional sulphur contents (0.66%–1.02%) in the late lowstand (sq-2 and sq.-3) indicate occasional saline invasions related to relative sea level rises. High (2.3%–2.6%) sulphur contents in the TST (sq-4) were caused by regular seawater inundations into the lagoon, while decreasing sulphur contents in sq-5 and sq-6 (2.28%–2.09%) reflect the increasing rate of freshwater income in association with the stepwise basinward shifts of the shoreline and the lagoonal facies. Within the Lower to Middle Miocene Salgótarján Lignite Formation, the analysis of coal seams contributed to the interpretation of relative sea level changes, and the sequence stratigraphic context facilitated both the interpretation of sulphur content in coals and the reliable correlation of coal seams.

ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAL LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION BUREAUX

Annual Conference THE eighteenth annual conference of the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux (ASLIB), following the precedent of the seventeenth conference last year, was held in the Royal Society's rooms at Burlington House on September 18 and 19. The attendance was considerably larger than in 1942, and at some sessions the accommodation generously provided by the Royal Society was barely adequate for the number present. The report on the year's work presented to the annual general meeting on September 18, when Prof. R. S. Hutton was re-elected president, referred to a steady increase in membership to 390 as against 328 in 1942 and 297 in 1941. Although the Association's income has increased, the increase of expenditure due to such special activities as publications and the highly successful special library-training course initiated as a result of a suggestion at the 1942 Conference, has led to a small deficit, and the financial position of the Association was the subject of some keen discussion at the final session of the Conference on September 19, when Miss Ditmas, the general secretary, gave an informal paper on “Aslib: What it is Doing and What it Hopes to Do”. The report also referred to the project for a Union Catalogue of Periodicals in British Libraries, the Index to Translations, and to the use made of the location indexes. to current copies of European periodicals, as well as to the visit of the chairman of council, Mr. Edward Carter, to the United States at the invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation.