Economics Working Papers
The Economics Working Papers series is a forum for stimulating discussion on research and policy studies that deal with economic and development problems facing the Asia and Pacific region.
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Deep Economic Integration and State Capacity: A Mechanism for Avoiding the Middle-Income Trap?
Exiting the middle-income trap requires costly improvements in state capacity. Can deep economic integration increase state capacity and, if so, how? -
Global Banking Network and Regional Financial Contagion
This paper looks at how the network of cross-border banking appears to play an important role in financial contagion and how shocks are transmitted across borders. -
Do Information and Communication Technologies Empower Female Workers? Firm-Level Evidence from Viet Nam
This paper explores the effects of a firm's adoption of ICT in reducing gender inequality in the labor market. -
Constructing the Asia-Pacific Regional Cooperation and Integration Index: A Panel Approach
Trade and investment and movement of people are the main drivers of regional integration in Asia and the Pacific from 2006 to 2016. Asia comes second to the European Union in progress on regional integration. -
Labor Market Regulations in the Context of Structural Transformation
Labor market regulations that provide insurance to workers are efficiency enhancing and raise the fraction of workers employed in the more productive formal sector. -
Why has the Philippines’ Growth Performance Improved? From Disappointment to Promising Success
The Philippines posted an average growth rate of 6.4% during 2010–2017, quite impressive for historical standards. -
Measuring Rice Yield from Space: The Case of Thai Binh Province, Viet Nam
An innovative data fusion technology, which combines two freely available satellite data sources, is used to map paddy area and estimate yield in Thai Binh Province, Viet Nam. -
Land Measurement Bias: Comparisons from Global Positioning System, Self-Reports, and Satellite Data
Using Google Earth in agricultural land measurements as an alternative technique produces land area estimates close to Global Positioning System (GPS) estimates at reduced fieldwork costs. -
Financial Inclusion: New Measurement and Cross-Country Impact Assessment
A new measurement is used to assess the impact of financial inclusion on poverty and income inequality of 151 economies. -
Gender Pay Gap: A Macro Perspective
The male–female wage gap is a persistent global phenomenon. As the wage gap may discourage women from investing in human capital or participating in the labor market, understanding its root cause is important.