This paper investigates regional differences within China in the degree of participation in East Asia's production and distribution networks in machinery industries. By employing customs-based export data, large regional disparity in the pattern of machinery exports as well as a hint of...

Introduction -- Part I. Country Implementation of SDGs: Measuring the Distance to 2030 Targets -- 1. The impact of Global COVID-19 Crisis on SDGs achievement in ASEAN-countries -- 2. Measuring the Distance to 2030 Targets in China and East Asia Imperatives -- 3. Measuring the distance to 2030...

Chapter 1. From the Market to the State: New Lessons from Regional Experiences with Power Sector Reform -- Chapter 2. What Have Reforms Delivered So Far? – A Quantitative Analysis on the Impacts of Power Sector Reform in the ASEAN Economies -- Chapter 3. Electricity Market Development in...

This book is the first comprehensive assessment of the state of low-carbon investments in Asia, analyzing the rationales, mandates and public-private financing activities. Based on the experiences of several regional initiatives wherein public financing is catalyzing private investments in...

Chapter 1: Economic shocks and uncertainties: how does firm innovativeness enable supply chain and moderate interdependence? -- Chapter 2: Supply chain resilience in the global financial crisis: an empirical study on Japan -- Chapter 3: How do production networks affect the resilience of firms...

Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in South-East Asia: Drought Conditions and Crop Damage Assessment -- Management of Natural Forests for Carbon Emission Reductions through Improved Logging Practices and Wood Bioenergy Use -- Vehicle Technology Impact Assessment Model for Indonesia...

Inspired by the observed contrasting patterns of geographical distribution of the electric machinery industry in East Asia and Europe, this paper conducts an empirical clarification of the difference in spatial relationships in the industry sizes among countries within a region by use of spatial...

This paper empirically investigates two areas of changes in firm behavior and performance at home before and after investing abroad. The first is the type of foreign direct investment (FDI): horizontal FDI or vertical FDI. The second is the firm's domestic activities of interest: production...

This paper presents the resiliency of international production networks stretched across the Asian region in face of the Asian financial and currency crisis back in 1997-98, as well as confirming its stability with consideration to adverse effects of the crisis. A series of survival analyses...

This paper sheds light on the stability of international production networks in East Asia from the perspective of the duration and survival of bilateral trade relationships at the product-line level. Using highly disaggregated data for intra-East Asian machinery trade, survival analysis is...