health facilities, education outcome, health outcome, voice, as well as income and consumption. We believe this is the first …

due to the price hikes in the early 1970s. We investigate the causal relations between real money and real income, between … nominal money and nominal income, and between nominal money and prices using the annual data set from 1959-60 to 2003 … of income, the study finds the feedback mechanism of money, which is generally missing in the earlier studies probably …

of reliable and readily available price and income elasticities of demand to base these on, especially for domestic use … fuels are estimated for both urban and rural areas by different income groups. These can be used to evaluate recent and …

This paper discusses Japan’s strategy for Asian monetary integration. It argues that Japan faces three major policy … a leadership role in this endeavor. There is no question that Japan and the PRC are such potential leaders, and the two … monetary zone in Asia, Japan needs to make significant efforts at the national and regional levels and further strengthen …

Asia is fast becoming the largest recipient of Japan's foreign direct investment (FDI). Within the Asian region, the … Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been the major investment destination of Japan. In the manufacturing sectors …, however, the investment flows from Japan to ASEAN—with Thailand being the largest recipient—has been declining. In …

Japan’s changing structure of trade, FDI and economy that underlay policy changes. We argue that until the late 1990s Japan … Japan-US bilateralism sometimes resulted in “managed trade†and encountered negative perceptions of the US approach in … Japan, overall, it had a positive impact on the Japanese economy in opening domestic markets through various reforms and …

will work independently of one another. When the Government of Japan announced its participation in the TPP negotiations in …