Global value chains (GVCs) have been a vehicle for job creation in developing Asia, but there is mounting concern that … consumption, trade, and technological advances in 12 economies that accounted for 90% of employment in developing Asia during the …

This paper argues that the single most important factor that explains East Asia's development success was its fast … as the "engine of growth." It is in the context of industrialization that openness played an important role in East Asia … exchange) and industrialization. Part 1 of the paper documents the extent of structural transformation in developing Asia …

This study examines gender inequality in labor markets in Asia and the Pacific, with a focus on the structural drivers … of women's labor force participation. Demographic survey data indicate that in Asia's lower-income countries, economic …

In Asia, aging countries with slow population growth worry about a lack of workers in the future and see older people …