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October 2002 | Economics Working Papers

Regional Cooperation in Asia: Long-term Progress, Recent Retrogression, and the Way Forward

The paper argues that regionalism in Asia has been soft and fragmented over the last few decades. Major Asian economies are now going through a prolonged slump and suffering from a massive misallocation of its resources, both labor and capital.
Author(s): Agarwala, Ramgopal | Prakash, Brahm
September 2002 | Economics Working Papers

Modernization and Son Preference in People's Republic of China

This paper identifies the gaps in welfare attainment and international attention between boys and girls in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Author(s): Burgess, Robin | Zhuang, Juzhong
September 2002 | Economics Working Papers

The Doha Agenda and Development: A View from the Uruguay Round

This paper reviews the outcome of the Uruguay Round, then applies the lessons drawn from this review to the Doha Agenda.
Author(s): Finger, J. Michael
September 2002 | Economics Working Papers

Conceptual Issues in the Role of Education Decentralization

This paper establishes the background and rationale for the ADB project "The Role of Education Decentralization in Promoting Effective Schooling in Selected DMCs", scrutinizes educational issues in DMCs, and examines various aspects of decentralization.
Author(s): Behrman, Jere R. | Deolalikar, Anil B. | Soon, Lee-Ying
September 2002 | Economics Working Papers

Promoting Effective Schooling through Education Decentralization in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Philippines

This paper is a synopsis of country studies that gathered secondary data and information from Bangladesh, Indonesia and Philippines as part of the ADB project "The Role of Education Decentralization in Promoting Effective Schooling in Selected DMCs.".
Author(s): Behrman, Jere R. | Deolalikar, Anil B. | Soon, Lee-Ying
September 2002 | Economics Working Papers

Financial Opening under the WTO Agreement in Selected Asian Countries: Progress and Issues

This paper examines the financial opening under the WTO agreement of six selected countries, i.e., People's Republic of China (PRC), Indonesia, Republic of Korea (Korea), Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.
Author(s): Kim, Yun-Hwan
September 2002 | Asian Development Outlook

Asian Development Outlook 2002 Update

The Asian Development Outlook 2002 Update features an assessment of recent global economic trends and the recent performance and prospects of developing Asia and the Pacific, and macroeconomic assessments, policy developments and economic outlook for the five subregions of developing Asia and the Pacific.
August 2002 | Economics Working Papers

Effect of Decentralization Strategy on Macroeconomic Stability in Thailand

This research study examines how the Thai central government can finance decentralization and make local governments accountable for their own finances.
Author(s): Lao-Araya, Kanokpan
August 2002 | Economics Working Papers

Poverty and Patterns of Growth

This paper uses a recently constructed cross-country data set on absolute poverty to examine whether there is regional and sectoral variation in the relationship between poverty and economic growth.
Author(s): Hasan, Rana | Quibria, M. G.
August 2002 | Economics Working Papers

Why are Some Countries Richer than Others? A Reassessment of Mankiw-Romer-Weil's Test of the Neoclassical Growth Model

This paper provides evidence of a problem with the influential testing and assessment of Solow's (1956) growth model proposed by Mankiw et al. (1992) and a series of subsequent papers evaluating the latter.
Author(s): Felipe, Jesus | McCombie, John