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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
August 2002 | Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific

Key Indicators of Developing Asian and Pacific Countries 2002

Key Indicators of Developing Asian and Pacific Countries 2002: Population and Human Resource Trends and Challenges is the 33rd edition of this flagship annual statistical data book of ADB.
July 2002 | Asian Economic Integration Monitor

Asia Economic Monitor - July 2002

The Asia Economic Monitor (AEM) is a quarterly review of East Asia's growth and recovery, financial and corporate sector reforms, and social developments. It covers the 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations member countries plus the People's Republic of China and Republic of Korea. The July 2002 Update features a chapter on "Five Years After the Crisis," which takes stock of what has been achieved in financial and corporate restructuring in East Asia since the1997 crisis.
July 2002 | ERD Policy Briefs

The Role of Preferential Trading Arrangements in Asia

This paper presents the role of preferential trading arrangements in Asia.
Author(s): Edmonds, Christopher | Verbiest, Jean-Pierre A.
July 2002 | ERD Policy Briefs

The Doha Round: A Development Perspective

This study presents how to help shape future WTO negotiations to make them conducive to a country-specific approach to policy and regulatory reforms.
Author(s): Verbiest, Jean-Pierre A. | Liang, Jeffrey | Sumulong, Lea R.
July 2002 | Economics Working Papers

The Role of Infrastructure in Land-use Dynamics and Rice Production in Viet Nam

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 the mid-1990s.
Author(s): Edmonds, Christopher
June 2002 | ERD Policy Briefs

Causes of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis: What Can an Early Warning System Model Tell Us?

This brief summarizes major findings of an empirical study that attempts to test the two hypotheses to determine what actually happened in Asia in 1997 using an early warning system (EWS) model.
Author(s): Zhuang, Juzhong | Dowling, Malcolm
June 2002 | Economics Working Papers

A Framework for Establishing Priorities in a Country Poverty Reduction Strategy

The paper reviews the history and progress of understanding of development theory over the past 50 years, which describes a conceptual framework that can guide development practitioners in prioritizing, sequencing, and characterizing all interventions.
Author(s): Duncan, Ron | Pollard, Steve
May 2002 | Economics Working Papers

The European Social Model: Lessons for Developing Countries

This paper discusses the experiences of social policies during the first decades of the 20th century in Europe underline the important role of informal systems for income security and personal services at low levels of economic development.
Author(s): Lindbeck, Assar