Following rapid economic growth in recent decades, Asia and the Pacific experienced an impressive reduction in extreme … 'poverty miracle' and argues for the development and use of an Asia-specific poverty line. This is a timely and … multidimensional assessment of the much-neglected issues of, and links between, poverty, vulnerability, and ethnicity in Asia. It will …

international productivity level : comparison with China, Korea, Taiwan and the United States. …

pt. 1. China as a growth engine of Asia and the world -- pt. 2. Impacts on Korea's economy -- pt. 3. Impacts on Korean …

1. Regional cooperation, infrastructure and trade costs in Asia / Douglas H. Brooks -- 2. ASEAN open skies and the … Asia / Nilanjan Banik and John Gilbert -- 5. Transport infrastructure and trade facilitation in the greater Mekong …

Infrastructure and trade in Asia : an overview / Douglas H. Brooks and Jayant Menon -- A framework for considering …. Khan -- Empirical estimates of trade costs for Asia / Prabir De -- Roads and poverty : a general equilibrium analysis for … / Christopher Edmonds and Manabu Fujimura -- Meeting the MDG water target in Asia : the role of regional co-operation / P.B. Anand …

pt. 1. Major ASEAN and East Asian economies -- pt. 2. Major transition economies in Asia …

Terutomo Ozawa introduces a newly reformulated theory of 'flying-geese' economic development, exploring Asia's dynamic …

The rapidly increasing importance of China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan both in Asia and in the … Asian growth in the latter part of the century. The contributors look at Asia within a global perspective and detailed …