the “engine of growth.” It is in the context of industrialization that openness played an important role in East Asia … exchange) and industrialization. Part 2 of the paper reviews the role of Asia's developmental states in consciously …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 paper argues that the single most important factor that explains East Asia's development success was its fast …

countries, namely, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam. The analysis applies a …

scholastic performance in five Asian countries (Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Thailand). In the …

contributed to Asia's sustained rapid growth, its effect on income inequality is uncertain. The central objective of our paper is … to empirically examine the effect of structural change on wage inequality in Asia, using industry-level data for three …

This paper uses over 20 years of data from Indonesia's labor force survey to study trends in female labor force …

issue of growing importance throughout Asia. This is especially true in East Asia and Southeast Asia where the demographic …'s Republic of China, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam; diagnoses the …

developing Asia. In our empirical analysis, we use disaggregated measures of governance to capture different dimensions of … effectiveness with which these resources are spent on social sectors. Along with the fact that governance quality is lower in Asia … developing Asia …