Asian Development Review Series

This edition features studies on seasonal labor mobility in the Pacific as well as development issues relating to population aging, education, and the labor market in Asia.

This issue includes a guide to the ADB COVID-19 Policy Database and articles on trade, manufacturing, human capital, and education in Asia and the Pacific.

This edition discusses current economic, environmental, and development issues in Asia such as poverty, migration, and financial spillovers. It features research studies in Pakistan, the People's Republic of China, Thailand, and Viet Nam.

This edition focuses on perspectives on structural change, whether the traditional path of moving from agriculture to industry and services still holds, the impact of globalization, and the effect of structural change on labor markets.

This edition covers intergenerational mobility of families in slums of Jakarta, exports and imports of Thailand, and the effects of foreign direct investment on the productivity of 15 emerging market economies, among others.

This edition brings together scholars who highlight the need for concrete and rapid actions to adapt to climate change.

This latest edition contains a mini symposium on India’s foreign direct investment (FDI) that analyzes the links between FDI and technology sourcing, export intensity, employment, environment, and financing.

Topics discussed in this issue of the Asian Development Review include a special issue on urban and regional development in Asia.

This issue discusses growth convergence paths in Asia and the middle-income trap, impacts of minimum wage on employment and earnings for men and women in India, and working conditions in developing economies, among others.

Asia’s future growth prospects are key to the evolution of the world economy. By the middle of this decade, Asia’s contribution to the world’s gross domestic product growth had surpassed 60%.