Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of … gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity … composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began with Japan in the 1950s and the Republic of Korea and Taipei,China from …

It is an empirical fact that it is very difficult to balance economic growth, poverty reduction, and environment … targeting of the chronic issue of poverty reduction without causing damage to the natural environment. It is in this context … crisis has discouraged United States (US) private consumption, which in turn has significantly reduced exports from Asia …

Asia and the Pacific, and particularly for emerging Asian economies, which are heavily dependent on imported energy and … resources. Acknowledging this fact, individual governments in Asia have recently been taking effective actions in the form of … capital, some of which are very specific to developing Asia. Different sector policies - such as in trade and environment …

Poverty-related studies are usually general examinations of the impact of policy reforms or major investments on the … determine the poverty implications of policy initiatives, it is important to stratify households according to income source and … in poverty headcount across income strata. Thus, changes in sector outcomes arising from policy reforms or major …

policy issues faced by the policymakers in Asia. Recent studies show that East Asia is quite integrated in trade. Financial … deepening trade integration in East Asia indicates that the impact of slowdown in the US economy is not likely to be large …

globalization, and, while Asia and Europe will lead the process, it will be open to any willing partners. …Europe and Asia followed very different paths to economic integration after 1945. By 2000, an economic union with free … integration agreements were absent from Asia, although countries in East and Southeast Asia were becoming linked in global value …

This paper discusses how financial crises in emerging Asia and Japan worked as catalysts for legal reforms. The …

This paper examines the effect of institutions on macrofinancial resilience in Asia. Focusing on a panel of 12 Asian …

). Poverty is estimated using Demographic and Health Surveys for three different years for Cambodia (2000, 2005 and 2010), for …, health and standard of living. Our findings indicate that Cambodia shows the highest level of poverty, followed by Indonesia … poverty measures based on counting approaches using ordinal variables to the understanding of the evolution of poverty in …