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The Impact of Foreign Labour on Host Country Wages: The Experience of a Southern Host, Malaysia
Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Devadason, Evelyn S - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of foreign labour on domestic manufacturing wages through a case study of Malaysia, a country where foreign labour immigration has played a key role in manufacturing growth over the past two decades. The main focus of the paper is on an econometric analysis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008864023
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Foreign Direct Investment in Industrial Transition: The Experience of Vietnam
Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Tien, Tran Quang - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009
This paper examines the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the process of industrial transition in Vietnam in the context of market-oriented reforms undertaken over the past two decades. The findings are consistent with the conventional wisdom that concomitant liberalization of trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468999
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The Differential Effects of Financial Development on India's Industrial Performance
Gupta, Nitin - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
The paper aims to investigate the differential impact of increased financial development on industrial output, across state and industry categories. Using an unbalanced panel of 15 Indian states, 22 industries at the 2-digit level, and an 11-year period spanning 1992-2002, the paper's most novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274825
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Industrialisation, Trade Policy and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Asia
Warr, Peter - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2003
Over recent decades, most of the developing economies of Asia achieved reductions in absolute poverty incidence, but … assembles available data on the headcount measure of poverty incidence in East Asia (Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand …, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines) and South Asia (India), from the 1960s to the 1990s. It then uses these data to analyze …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005115711
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A generic approach to investment modelling in recursive dynamic CGE models
Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2015
understanding of the precise linkages between migration and development. The paper reviews the situation in South Asia with respect … diasporas – are discussed in relation to country experiences in South Asia. Some contradictions in the mainstreaming discourse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252693
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Demographic Dividends, Dependencies and Economic Growth in China and India
Golley, Jane; Tyers, Rod - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
The world's two population giants have undergone significant, and significantly different, demographic transitions since the 1950s. The demographic dividends associated with these transitions during the first three decades of this century are examined using a global economic model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201639
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Indonesian Growth Dynamics
Basri, M Chatib; Hill, Hal - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
This paper provides an analytical narrative of Indonesian economic growth over the past two decades. Particular attention is paid to the key economic crisis events of 1997-98 and 2008-09, and how and why Indonesia's response to them was completely different. We emphasize and illustrate how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861950
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East Asia in World Trade: The Decoupling Fallacy, Crisis and Policy Challenges
Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Kohpaiboon, Archanun - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
This paper examines the export experience of China and other East Asian economies in the aftermaths of the global financial crisis against the backdrop of pre-crisis trade patterns. The analysis is motivated by the 'decoupling' thesis, which was a popular theme in the Asian policy circles in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861951
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Malaysian Economic Development: Looking Backwards and Forward
Hill, Hal - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
This paper provides an analytical and forward-looking overview of Malaysian economic development. Looking back over its 53 years of Independence, we identify the key stylized facts to include the country's generally rapid economic growth and structural change; its consistent openness, especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861952
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Malaysian Economy in Three Crises
Athukorala, Prema-chandra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
This paper examines macroeconomic experiences and policies of Malaysia with emphasis on the three major crisis episodes during the post independence era. It probes the nature and origin of the macroeconomic shocks and the institutional and ideological influences on policy formulation and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861953