Educational expansion is crucial for reducing educational inequality and thus income inequality.
After the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the Republic of Korea introduced a stronger financial system to reduce the impact of future financial crises.
The Republic of Korea needs to reform its service sector to ensure more balanced and sustained growth.
In many developing countries, disparity in access to quality education between girls and boys adversely impacts the girls’ ability to build human and social capital, lowering their job opportunities and wage in labor markets.
This paper presents a theoretical model that can analyze the impact of gender inequality on long-term economic growth.
This paper examines the empirical implications of technological changes for skill demand and wage inequality in Indonesia.
Policy makers in the emerging Asia must strike the right balance between maximizing the net benefits from regional and global financial openness, and minimizing the potential costs of financial contagion and crisis.
This study examines the effectiveness of capital controls in Malaysia and Thailand over the period 2000–2010.
This paper examines the effects of capital account restrictions on capital flows in nine emerging Asian economies.
The global financial crisis of 2008/09 has prompted a reassessment of financial regulation and supervision. Many note that regulatory changes in the global financial system inevitably slow financial innovation and economic growth. Will a wave of regulation and reform in the wake of the crisis also limit the ability of financial institutions to innovate? What are the likely implications for relatively underdeveloped emerging Asian economies?