"The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of "missing girls" in much of East and South Asia has attracted much … ratios were the highest in Asia but peaked in the mid-1990s and normalized thereafter. Using census data, we examine whether …" phenomenon could be addressed in Asia. "--World Bank web site …

(China)--and the recent reforms to them provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All …

countries in Asia and Australasia, and Canada and the United Kingdom. The authors find that the institutional factors which most …