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Child malnutrition is pervasive and persistent in Asia, and at present rates
it will take decades to halve the prevalence—a goal common to many national plans.
Nutrition-oriented programs are famili...
Lessons of the Asian Financial Crisis: What Can an Early Warning System Model Tell Us?
Asian Financial Crisis System
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2009/9/1
Using an early warning system model, this paper provides empirical evidence on the causes of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, with a view to shedding light on policy lessons. The model shows that ther...
The Role of Decentralization in Promoting Effective Schooling in Developing Asia
Decentralization Asia
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2009/9/1
While decentralization of schooling in Asian developing countries has largely been driven by fiscal constraints, it has also been motivated by concerns about the effectiveness of a centralized system ...
Foreign Direct Investment: Trends, TRIMs, and WTO Negotiations
Foreign Direct Investment Trends WTO
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2009/9/1
Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows have increased dramatically in recent decades. As developing countries, particularly in Asia, remove restrictions and implement policies to attract FDI inflows, t...
From the Washington Consensus to the Post-Washington Consensus: Retrospect and Prospect
Washington Post-Washington Prospect
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2009/9/1
The past two decades have witnessed major changes in the paradigm of international development assistance. During the 1980s the import-substitution industrialization strategy (ISI) advocating for gove...
This expository note provides a critical review of the burgeoning literature on social capital and highlights a number of conceptual and empirical issues. First, the concept of social capital remains ...
Globalization has many dimensions, mostly familiar to many such as trade, capital, labor, and knowledge. We distinguish between short-term and long-term capital flows, and between foreign direct inves...
Regional Integration and Benefits from Foreign Direct Investment in ASEAN Economies: The Case of Viet Nam
Foreign Direct Investment ASEAN Economies
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2009/9/1
In recent years Viet Nam has been pursuing the twin goals of promoting inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and regional development in the context of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASE...
Liberalization and Foreign Direct Investment in Asian Transport Systems: The Case of Aviation
Liberalization Foreign Direct Investment Asian
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2009/9/1
The aviation industry is critical for Asia to gain from participation in the global economy. The airline industry in developing Asia is generally dominated by state-owned enterprises, and the record o...
Divergent Asian Views on Foreign Direct Investment and Its Governance
Asian Foreign Direct Investment Governance
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2009/9/1
This paper reviews recent trends and effects of FDI in developing Asia; domestic policy changes in six Asian host economies (People’s Republic of China, India, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, a...
Economic Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Indian States in the Pre-reform and Reform Periods
Economic Growth Poverty Inequality Indian
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2009/9/1
The paper assesses the impact of economic reforms on poverty incidence by decomposing the change in poverty ratio into growth/mean effect, inequality effect, and population shift effect for the rural ...
Rice Production, Land Use Dynamics, and Infrastructure Development in Viet Nam’s Mekong River Delta
Rice Production Viet Nam
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2009/9/1
This study examines the role of infrastructure development and technical change in explaining increases in agricultural production and changes in land use in the Mekong Delta Region of Viet Nam during...
This paper combines labor force survey data with trade and production data from 1988 to 1997 to examine the impact of trade on wages and employment in the Philippines’s manufacturing sector. In contra...
A continuous flow of technology/ industrial innovation is the key to sustained dynamic growth. Developing countries have an “advantage of backwardness” as they can borrow technology/industry...
Total Factor Productivity Growth in the Philippines: 1960−2000
Total Factor Productivity Philippines
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2009/9/1
Average total factor productivity growth (TFPG) for the Philippine economy
is negative, indicating that it has not been the source of growth in the
Philippines. However, TFPG estimates showed an inc...