This paper is a short history of the Indian economy since 1968. India today is a changed country from what it was half a century ago, when Myrdal published his Asian Drama. The stranglehold of low growth has been broken, its population below the poverty line has fallen markedly, and India has...

How are economic conditions related to moments of political transition? This paper considers that transitions comprise changes not suitably categorized as discrete events, so that scholarship benefits from weighing the process and how economic conditions affect actors’ credibility and...

We study the effects of Chinese monetary policy shocks on China's major trading partners in East and South-East Asia by estimating structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) models for six economies in the region. We find that a monetary expansion in Mainland China leads to an increase in real GDP...

This study highlights the bidirectional relationship between women’s empowerment and economic development including Bangladesh from South Asia and Vietnam from Southeast Asia. With quantitative analysis, the study investigates the U-shaped hypothesis between Bangladesh and Vietnam and runs the...

The recession in the United States in the wake of the global financial crisis has had a pronounced negative impact on developing Asia's exports and growth. As a result, developing Asian countries are increasingly looking to the People's Republic of China (PRC) as a new source of demand and...

This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability in the East and South-East Asian countries focused on the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis, using data from environmental performance index (EPI) in 2010. Both pollution and eco-efficiency...