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

quite heterogeneous across developing regions. Shares of agriculture in GDP are still high in the East Asia and Pacific and … South Asia regions. Moreover, data indicate that trade reform in export partners, particularly OECD countries, will affect a …

not experienced growth in employment, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in transitional economies and labeled as "jobless …

Estimates of labor mobility costs are needed to assess the responses of employment and wages to trade shocks when … estimator matches the changes in observed sectoral employment allocations with the predicted allocations from a model of costly …

comparing affluent urban Peninsular Malaysia with poorer rural East Malaysia. Although there are important differences in … income mobility in Malaysia in 2004-16. On aggregate, there were large reductions in chronic poverty and increases in … welfare levels between the main ethnic groups in Malaysia, the mobility trends generally point in the same direction. While …

, in an environment where access to schooling and formal sector employment is extremely low. It tracks a large fraction of …

Malaysia's structural transformation from low to middle income is a success story, making it one of the most prominent …-wage economies on the one hand, and more innovative advanced economies on the other. What can Malaysia do? Does Malaysia need a new … production in both goods and services. This paper examines productivity growth for Malaysia at the sectoral level, and constructs …

gain benefits from global network trade? Over the past 15 years Asia has become Africa's fastest growing export market … will not continue in the near future. The authors acknowledge the numerous caveats in Asia's growing interest in the …, as well as the fierce competition from Asia's cheap manufactured exports. However, they believe that there is strong …

integration of China has deepened production fragmentation in East Asia, countering fears of crowding out other countries for … international specialization. International production fragmentation in East Asia has intensified intraregional trade but has … significantly to growth in East Asia, they also breed vulnerabilities. They have not automatically led to technology spillovers and …

The "rise of Asia" is something of a myth. During 1990-2005 China accounted for 28 percent of global growth, measured … at purchasing power parity (PPP). India accounted for 9 percent. The rest of developing Asia, with nearly a billion …