profoundly influenced by the challenges of slowing productivity growth, increasing economic inequalities and systemic … regional economic integration literature, this comprehensive book identifies the set of drivers of integration for productivity … slowing productivity growth, increasing economic inequalities and systemic vulnerabilities. Such structural reform issues will …

A key legacy of the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 is a sustained drop-off in the investment rates of East Asian … countries that were hardest hit by the crisis. We first review the stylized facts of investment in those countries, and then … explore and evaluate the various possible explanations for the decline in investment. In our empirical analysis, which expands …

This paper surveys the empirical literature on total factor productivity (TFP) and the sources of growth in the East …