Asian Development Review: Volume 41, Number 2

Mini Symposium from AEDC 2023

Many countries in Asia and the Pacific have experienced rapid economic growth and structural transformation in recent decades. Yet, some countries are still at an early stage of this structural transformation.

Using a newly constructed index of trade openness, this paper finds a significant direct effect of openness on poverty reduction.

This paper provides estimates of the impact of demographic change on labor productivity growth, relying on annual data during 1961–2018 for a panel of 90 advanced and emerging economies.

This study delves into the trade dynamics of Southeast Asian countries in response to the trade dispute between the United States and the People’s Republic of China.

This study examines the potentially causal effect of special economic zones on the economy of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic using harmonized nightlight satellite data as a proxy for annual economic activity in 148 districts from 1992 to 2021.

This study investigates the relationship between minimum wage policies and educational choices, specifically the decision between vocational and general school enrollment.

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This paper uses the structuralist approach to understand how Thailand experienced a decline in economic inequality coupled with unimpressive economic growth have become deeply intertwined.

This paper seeks to account for the drift between the climate positions of the People’s Republic of China and India since 2010.

This paper identifies which nighttime lights measure is the best proxy for the subdistrict-level economic activities of India.

This paper uses two empirical tools to quantify the impact of tariff changes on bilateral trade and welfare in Armenia.

This paper examines the cyclicality of remittance inflows to economies in Asia and the Pacific.

This study explores the effects of social capital on economic development in Indonesia, a large and multi-ethnic developing country.

This study uses data from 1986 to 2021 and the auto-regressive distributed lag model to explore India’s fiscal policy determinants of government health spending.