This paper examines the impact of local firms' participation in global value chains (GVCs) on productivity by … firm productivity and GVC participation: firms that enter GVCs have high productivity before participating in the GVCs … (selection effect), and only Indonesian firms which entered GVCs had a high productivity growth after joining GVCs (learning …

integral part of "Factory Asia." Moreover, the results from a quantitative model of trade show that revealed productivity …This paper uses a theory-based measure of productivity-based comparative advantage to examine the trade performance of … across sectors and economies. We also find evidence of rapid growth in revealed productivity in some service subsectors …

This paper explores the impacts of more rapid growth in labor productivity in the service sector in Asia based on an … economies, and consumption and investment dynamics. We find that faster productivity growth in the service sector in Asia … services productivity growth, there is a significant expansion of the durable manufacturing sector that is required to provide …

subregions. Estimations reveal that West Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia, and Central Asia have agriculture … frameworks, an annual emission of 384.5 megatons of CO2eq GHG could have been reduced in Asia while keeping the production at the … current level. The potential reduction of emissions equals 16.8% of Asia's total emissions originating from agricultural …

growth in developing Asia. In services, high-skilled workers have mainly driven labor productivity, indicating that …Using a decomposition approach on data collected by the Asian Productivity Organization (APO) as well as World Input …-Output data, we show that in most Asian economies the services sector makes the largest contribution to labor productivity …

portfolio equity and debt investment flows are negatively related to total factor productivity (TFP) in developing Asia, thereby … pertains to why capital seems to flow to economies with lower rather than higher productivity growth. We find that while … direct investment, although we find that there is no direct allocation puzzle in developing Asia, financial development can …

Free trade agreements (FTAs) have proliferated in East Asia in recent years. As of December 2008, eight bilateral FTAs … pressing issue for Japanese firms because Japanese firms have expanded overseas, particularly into the rest of Asia, which has … contributed to the formation of production networks in East Asia. There have been numerous ex ante studies on the impacts of FTAs …

Although a latecomer, economically important Asia has emerged at the forefront of global free trade agreement (FTA …. Political economy considerations suggest that a likely scenario is for FTA consolidation in Asia to be followed by connections …

poverty reduction - in Asia. In exploring this relationship, this study goes beyond defining poverty by the income or … evidence that manufacturing growth has had a bearing on the inclusiveness of growth, especially in Southeast Asia in recent …

I analyze the risks in the banking systems in East Asia using the standard supervisory framework, which assesses … tests indicate that the largest banking systems in East Asia have a total of almost US$1.2 trillion in Tier 1 capital and a …