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March 2021, Volume 38, Issue 1
- 1-31 Seasonal Labor Mobility in the Pacific: Past Impacts, Future Prospects
by John Gibson & Rochelle-Lee Bailey - 32-67 Population Aging and the Three Demographic Dividends in Asia
by Naohiro Ogawa & Norma Mansor & Sang-Hyop Lee & Michael R.M. Abrigo & Tahir Aris - 68-97 What's Happened to Poverty and Inequality in Indonesia over Half a Century?
by Hal Hill - 98-118 Does Computer-Aided Instruction Improve Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills?
by Hirotake Ito & Keiko Kasai & Hiromu Nishiuchi & Makiko Nakamuro - 119-141 Education–Occupation Mismatch and Its Wage Penalties in Informal Employment in Thailand
by Tanthaka Vivatsurakit & Jessica Vechbanyongratana - 142-175 International Comparisons of Poverty in South Asia
by TM Tonmoy Islam & David Newhouse & Monica Yanez-Pagans - 176-206 Government Intervention, Institutional Quality, and Income Inequality: Evidence from Asia and the Pacific, 1988–2014
by Bertrand Blancheton & Dina Chhorn - 207-238 Social Capital and Innovation in East Asia
by Seo-Young Cho
September 2020, Volume 37, Issue 2
- 1-20 ADB COVID-19 Policy Database: A Guide
by Jesus Felipe & Scott Fullwiler - 21-44 Evaluating Strategies to Reduce Arsenic Poisoning in South Asia: A View from the Social Sciences
by Matthew Krupoff & Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak & Alexander van Geen - 45-76 Does the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce Align Private Firms with the Goals of the People's Republic of China's Belt and Road Initiative?
by Jeffrey B. Nugent & Jiaxuan Lu - 77-99 The Borrowing Puzzle: Why Do Filipino Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, China Borrow Rather than Dissave?
by Wooyoung Lim & Sujata Visaria - 100-133 Impacts of an Information and Communication Technology-Assisted Program on Attitudes and English Communication Abilities: An Experiment in a Japanese High School
by Yuki Higuchi & Miyuki Sasaki & Makiko Nakamuro - 134-166 Analyzing the Sources of Misallocation in Indian Manufacturing: A Gross-Output Approach
by Sujana Kabiraj - 167-200 Trade Volatility in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Plus Three: Impacts and Determinants
by Thi Nguyet Anh Nguyen & Thi Hong Hanh Pham & Thomas Vallée - 201-224 Could Weather Fluctuations Affect Local Economic Growth? Evidence from Counties in the People's Republic of China
by Chengzheng Li & Jiajia Cong & Haiying Gu - 225-263 Human Capital as Engine of Growth: The Role of Knowledge Transfers in Promoting Balanced Growth within and across Countries
by Isaac Ehrlich & Yun Pei
March 2020, Volume 37, Issue 1
- 1-42 Seasonal Poverty and Seasonal Migration in Asia
by Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak & Maira Emy Reimão - 43-60 Wage Differential between Rural Migrant and Urban Workers in the People's Republic of China
by Hong Cheng & Dezhuang Hu & Hongbin Li - 61-92 Household Debt and Delinquency over the Life Cycle
by Sommarat Chantarat & Atchana Lamsam & Krislert Samphantharak & Bhumjai Tangsawasdirat - 93-118 Financial Spillovers in Asian Emerging Economies
by Shin-ichi Fukuda & Mariko Tanaka - 119-139 Green Trade Patterns and the Transboundary Transmission of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
by Sung Jin Kang - 140-158 The Effects of Formalization on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Tax Payments: Panel Evidence from Viet Nam
by Amadou Boly - 159-184 Measuring the Ecological Efficiency of Thermal Power Plants: Evidence from Pakistan
by Imran Qaiser & Theocharis Grigoriadis - 185-212 Understanding Households’ Choice of Cooking Fuels: Evidence from Urban Households in Pakistan
by Dil Bahadur Rahut & Akhter Ali & Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb & Jeetendra Prakash Aryal
September 2019, Volume 36, Issue 2
- 1-31 Structural Transformation around the World: Patterns and Drivers
by Kunal Sen - 32-71 Structural Transformation to Manufacturing and Services: What Role for Trade?
by Kym Anderson & Sundar Ponnusamy - 72-99 From Import Substitution to Integration into Global Production Networks: The Case of the Indian Automobile Industry
by Prema-chandra Athukorala & C. Veeramani - 100-130 Global Value Chains and Employment Growth in Asia
by Neil Foster-McGregor - 131-158 Wages Over the Course of Structural Transformation: Evidence from India
by Rana Hasan & Rhea Molato - 159-184 Improving Public Infrastructure in the Philippines
by Takuji Komatsuzaki - 185-214 The Cost of Being Under the Weather: Droughts, Floods, and Health-Care Costs in Sri Lanka
by Diana De Alwis & Ilan Noy - 215-247 Providing a Safe Working Environment: Do Firm Ownership and Exporting Status Matter?
by Zara Liaqat
March 2019, Volume 36, Issue 1
- 1-19 Intergenerational Mobility in Slums: Evidence from a Field Survey in Jakarta
by Maisy Wong - 20-53 Dissecting Thailand's International Trade: Evidence from 88 Million Export and Import Entries
by Tosapol Apaitan & Piti Disyatat & Krislert Samphantharak - 54-79 Foreign Direct Investment and Productivity: A Cross-Country, Multisector Analysis
by Rodolphe Desbordes & Loe Franssen - 80-111 Labor Market Returns to Education and English Language Skills in the People's Republic of China: An Update
by M Niaz Asadullah & Saizi Xiao - 112-135 The Labor Productivity Gap between the Agricultural and Nonagricultural Sectors, and Poverty and Inequality Reduction in Asia
by Katsushi Imai & Raghav Gaiha & Fabrizio Bresciani - 136-167 Kuznets Revisited: What Do We Know about the Relationship between Structural Transformation and Inequality?
by Çinar Baymul & Kunal Sen - 168-205 The Long-Run Determinants of Indian Government Bond Yields
by Tanweer Akram & Anupam Das - 206-224 The Effectiveness of Credit Policy: Evidence from the Republic of Korea
by Jiho Lee
September 2018, Volume 35, Issue 2
- 1-30 Temperature Variability and Mortality: Evidence from 16 Asian Countries
by Olivier Deschenes - 31-57 Does Climate Change Bolster the Case for Fishery Reform in Asia?
by Christopher Costello - 58-84 An Economic Evaluation of the Health Effects of Reducing Fine Particulate Pollution in Chinese Cities
by Yana Jin & Shiqiu Zhang - 85-112 Indonesia's Moratorium on Palm Oil Expansion from Natural Forests: Economy-Wide Impacts and the Role of International Transfers
by Arief A. Yusuf & Elizabeth L. Roos & Jonathan M. Horridge - 113-130 Regional Crop Diversity and Weather Shocks in India
by Maximilian Auffhammer & Tamma A. Carleton - 131-152 Carbon Trading Scheme in the People's Republic of China: Evaluating the Performance of Seven Pilot Projects
by Xing Chen & Jintao Xu - 153-179 Regional Cooperation on Carbon Markets in East Asia
by Jiajia Li & Junjie Zhang - 180-203 Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform in the Developing World: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why?
by Ian Coxhead & Corbett Grainger
March 2018, Volume 35, Issue 1
- 1-26 The Impact of Foreign Ownership on Research and Development Intensity and Technology Acquisition in Indian Industries: Pre and Post Global Financial Crisis
by Aradhna Aggarwal - 27-51 Foreign Direct Investment, Firm Heterogeneity, and Exports: An Analysis of Indian Manufacturing
by Maitri Ghosh & Saikat Sinha Roy - 52-80 Does Plant Size Matter? Differential Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Wages and Employment in Indian Manufacturing
by Shruti Sharma - 81-107 Does Environmental Governance Matter for Foreign Direct Investment? Testing the Pollution Haven Hypothesis for Indian States
by Vinish Kathuria - 108-132 Do Financing Constraints Impact Outward Foreign Direct Investment? Evidence from India
by Subash Sasidharan & M. Padmaja - 133-154 Computer and Information Technology, Firm Growth, and Industrial Restructuring: Evidence from Manufacturing in the People's Republic of China
by Guangjun Shen - 155-174 Gender Discrimination in Education Expenditure in Nepal: Evidence from Living Standards Surveys
by Shaleen Khanal - 175-195 Empowering Cities: Good for Growth? Evidence from the People's Republic of China
by Megha Mukim & T. Juni Zhu - 196-222 Assessing Fiscal Risks in Bangladesh
by Leandro Medina
September 2017, Volume 34, Issue 2
- 1-1 Special Issue on Urban and Regional Development in Asia
by Klaus Desmet & Jesus Felipe - 1-24 Asia's Geographic Development
by Klaus Desmet & Dávid Krisztián Nagy & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg - 25-50 Transport Infrastructure and the Decentralization of Cities in the People's Republic of China
by Nathaniel Baum-Snow & Matthew A. Turner - 51-85 Natural City Growth in the People's Republic of China
by Peter H. Egger & Gabriel Loumeau & Nicole Püschel - 86-113 Evolution of the Size and Industrial Structure of Cities in Japan between 1980 and 2010: Constant Churning and Persistent Regularity
by Tomoya Mori - 114-151 Real Estate Bubbles and Urban Development
by Edward L. Glaeser - 152-183 Determinants of Urban Land Supply in the People's Republic of China: How Do Political Factors Matter?
by Wen-Tai Hsu & Xiaolu Li & Yang Tang & Jing Wu - 184-200 Productivity Gains from Agglomeration and Migration in the People's Republic of China between 2002 and 2013
by Pierre-Philippe Combes & Sylvie Démurger & Shi Li - 201-228 Urban Agglomeration Effects in India: Evidence from Town-Level Data
by Rana Hasan & Yi Jiang & Radine Michelle Rafols - 229-248 Will Climate Change Cause Enormous Social Costs for Poor Asian Cities?
by Matthew E. Kahn
March 2017, Volume 34, Issue 1
- 1-27 Growth Convergence and the Middle-Income Trap
by Takatoshi Ito - 28-64 The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Male and Female Employment and Earnings in India
by Nidhiya Menon & Yana van der Meulen Rodgers - 65-87 Do Factory Managers Know What Workers Want? Manager–Worker Information Asymmetries and Pareto Optimal Human Resource Management Policies
by Paris Adler & Drusilla Brown & Rajeev Dehejia & George Domat & Raymond Robertson - 88-115 Decomposing Total Factor Productivity Growth in Manufacturing and Services
by Neil Foster-McGregor & Bart Verspagen - 116-143 Undervaluation, Financial Development, and Economic Growth
by Jingxian Zou & Yaqi Wang - 144-166 Determinants of Intra-ASEAN Migration
by Michele Tuccio - 167-197 Household Energy Consumption and Its Determinants in Timor-Leste
by Dil Bahadur Rahut & Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb & Akhter Ali
September 2016, Volume 33, Issue 2
- 1-1 Special Issue on Potential Growth and Misallocation in Asia
by Jesus Felipe & Miguel A. León–Ledesma - 1-27 Potential Growth in Asia and Its Determinants: An Empirical Investigation
by Matteo Lanzafame - 28-55 Potential Output in Asia: Some Forward-Looking Scenarios
by Andrew Burns - 56-73 Population Aging and Potential Growth in Asia
by Keisuke Otsu & Katsuyuki Shibayama - 74-93 The Role of Structural Change in the Economic Development of Asian Economies
by Neil Foster--McGregor & Bart Verspagen - 94-118 Misallocation and Productivity: The Case of Vietnamese Manufacturing
by Doan Thi Thanh Ha & Kozo Kiyota & Kenta Yamanouchi - 119-143 Misallocation, Access to Finance, and Public Credit: Firm-Level Evidence
by Miguel A. León-Ledesma & Dimitris Christopoulos - 144-166 Sectoral Infrastructure Investments in an Unbalanced Growing Economy: The Case of Potential Growth in India
by Chetan Ghate & Gerhard Glomm & Jialu Liu Streeter - 167-181 The Political Economy of the Middle-Income Trap: Implications for Potential Growth
by Yikai Wang
March 2016, Volume 33, Issue 1
- 1-27 Information and Communication Technology-Enabled Modern Services Export Performances of Asian Economies
by Shahbaz Nasir & Kaliappa Kalirajan - 28-55 Foreign Direct Investment, Terms of Trade, and Quality Upgrading: What Is So Special about South Asia?
by Konstantin M. Wacker & Philipp Grosskurth & Tabea Lakemann - 56-73 Why Do Economies Enter into Preferential Agreements on Trade in Services? Assessing the Potential for Negotiated Regulatory Convergence in Asian Services Markets
by Pierre Sauvé & Anirudh Shingal - 74-110 Examining Monetary Policy Transmission in the People's Republic of China–Structural Change Models with a Monetary Policy Index
by Paul G. Egan & Anthony J. Leddin - 111-161 Dynamic Effects of Changes in the Exchange Rate System
by Naoyuki Yoshino & Sahoko Kaji & Tamon Asonuma - 162-182 International Trade and Risk Sharing in the Global Rice Market: The Impact of Foreign and Domestic Supply Shocks
by Shikha Jha & Kensuke Kubo & Bharat Ramaswami - 183-201 Typhoon Aid and Development: The Effects of Typhoon-Resistant Schools and Instructional Resources on Educational Attainment in the Philippines
by Ava Gail Cas
September 2015, Volume 32, Issue 2
- 1-17 Entrepreneurial Impulse, Investment Behavior, and Economic Fluctuations–A VAR Analysis with Indian Data
by Panchanan Das - 18-37 Analysis of Credit Ratings for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Evidence from Asia
by Naoyuki Yoshino & Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary - 38-64 Rates of Return to Schooling in Thailand
by Kaewkwan Tangtipongkul - 65-94 Rural Nonfarm Employment, Income, and Inequality: Evidence from Bhutan
by Dil Bahadur Rahut Chhetri & Pradyot Ranjan Jena & Akhter Ali & Bhagirath Behera & Nar Bahadur Chhetri - 95-114 Enjoying the Fruits of Their Labor: Redirecting Exports to Asian Consumers
by Willem Thorbecke - 115-152 How Capital Flows in the Midst of Excess Savings Affect Macrofinancial Vulnerability
by Iwan J. Azis & Damaris Yarcia - 153-177 Democratic Government and Development: A Survey
by Piergiuseppe Fortunato - 178-195 An Empirical Estimation of Asia's Untapped Regional Integration Potential Using Data Envelopment Analysis
by Dominik Naeher
March 2015, Volume 32, Issue 1
- 1-30 Understanding the Slowing Growth Rate of the People's Republic of China
by Dwight H. Perkins - 31-48 Sustaining Growth of the People's Republic of China
by Justin Yifu Lin & Fan Zhang - 49-89 Trilemma Challenges for the People's Republic of China
by Masahiro Kawai & Li-Gang Liu - 90-112 How Does Financial Opening Affect Industrial Efficiency? The Case of Foreign Bank Entry in the People's Republic of China
by Ran Li & Yiping Huang - 113-141 Venture Capital Investment and the Post-IPO Performance of Entrepreneurial Firms: Evidence from the People's Republic of China
by Di Guo & Kun Jiang & Xiaoting Mai - 142-166 Export Destination and Export Market Penetration of the People's Republic of China—Past and Future
by Rui Mao & Bin Zhang - 167-195 Health Care Expenditure over Life Cycle in the People's Republic of China
by Jin Feng & Pingyi Lou & Yangyang Yu - 196-224 Education Inequality between Rural and Urban Areas of the People's Republic of China, Migrants’ Children Education, and Some Implications
by Dandan Zhang & Xin Li & Jinjun Xue
September 2014, Volume 31, Issue 2
- 1-20 Trade Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership for ASEAN and Other Asian Countries
by Alan V. Deardorff - 21-54 The More Divergent, the Better? Lessons on Trilemma Policies and Crises for Asia
by Joshua Aizenman & Hiro Ito - 55-76 Wage Differentials between Foreign Multinationals and Local Plants and Worker Quality in Malaysian Manufacturing
by Eric D. Ramstetter - 77-108 Productivity Spillovers from FDI in the People's Republic of China: A Nuanced View
by Cheryl Xiaoning Long & Galina Hale & Hirotaka Miura - 109-140 The Dragon Is Flying West: Micro-level Evidence of Chinese Outward Direct Investment
by Wenjie Chen & Heiwai Tang - 141-164 Global Production Sharing and Wage Premiums: Evidence from the Thai Manufacturing Sector
by Archanun Kohpaiboon & Juthathip Jongwanich - 165-197 Afghanistan: Balancing Social and Security Spending in the Context of a Shrinking Resource Envelope
by Aqib Aslam & Enrico Berkes & Martin Fukac & Jeta Menkulasi & Axel Schimmelpfennig
March 2014, Volume 31, Issue 1
- 1-52 A Comprehensive Analysis of Poverty in India
by Arvind Panagariya & Megha Mukim - 53-91 Foreign Direct Investment and the Survival of Domestic Private Firms in Viet Nam
by Ari Kokko & Tran Toan Thang - 92-120 Spatial Price Differences and Inequality in the People's Republic of China: Housing Market Evidence
by Chao Li & John Gibson - 121-135 Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks on the Exchange Rate in the Republic of Korea: Capital Flows in Stock and Bond Markets
by Soyoung Kim - 136-162 Inclusive Growth: When May We Expect It? When May We Not?
by Kunal Sen - 163-185 Globalization and the Quality of Asian and Non-Asian Jobs
by Robert J. Flanagan & Niny Khor - 186-210 ADB's Distinguished Speakers Program Measuring the Connectedness of the Financial System: Implications for Risk Management
by Robert C. Merton
September 2013, Volume 30, Issue 2
- 1-25 Demographic Dividends Revisited
by Jeffrey G. Williamson - 26-48 Princelings and Paupers? State Employment and the Distribution of Human Capital Investments Among Households in Viet Nam
by Ian Coxhead & Diep Phan - 49-75 Foreign Firms and Indigenous Technology Development in the People's Republic of China
by Fredrik Sjöholm & Nannan Lundin - 76-109 Dynamics of Household Assets and Income Shocks in the Long-run Process of Economic Development: The Case of Rural Pakistan
by Takashi Kurosaki - 110-130 Inequality of Human Opportunities in Developing Asia
by Hyun H. Son - 131-166 Political Connection and Firm Value
by James S. Ang & David K. Ding & Tiong Yang Thong
March 2013, Volume 30, Issue 1
- 1-30 Trends and Impacts of Real and Financial Globalization in the People's Republic of China and India since the 1980s
by TN Srinivasan - 31-51 Modes of Collective Action in Village Economies: Evidence from Natural and Artefactual Field Experiments in a Developing Country
by Yasuyuki Sawada & Ryuji Kasahara & Keitaro Aoyagi & Masahiro Shoji & Mika Ueyama - 52-84 Leading Dragon Phenomenon: New Opportunities for Catch-up in Low-Income Countries
by Vandana Chandra & Justin Yifu Lin & Yan Wang - 85-107 Investing Overseas Without Moving Factories Abroad: The Case of Chinese Outward Direct Investment
by Yiping Huang & Bijun Wang - 108-130 The Political Economy of Policy Reform: Insights from Southeast Asia
by Hal Hill - 131-147 Urbanization and Inequality in Asia
by Ravi Kanbur & Juzhong Zhuang - 148-164 ADB Distinguished Lecture Renminbi Internationalization: Tempest in a Teapot?
by Barry Eichengreen