In 1994 the World Bank called East Asia's strong economic growth performance a "miracle". Trade openness, high savings … was left unexplained. Research in the ensuing years has shown that when demographic change in East Asia is taken into … account, the miracle is explained. These earlier studies used the 1960-1990 sample period, but since 1990 Asia has undergone …

Review of: Internal Displacement in South Asia: The Relevance of the UN’s Guiding Principles Edited by Paula Banerjee …

late entrants in Asia who can stiudy and understand the urban dynamics of existing global cities in Europe and North …

Inflation can grease the wheels of the labor market by relaxing downward wage rigidity but it can also increase … interaction between inflation and labor market regulations affects how employment responds to changes in output. The results show … that in industrial countries with highly regulated labor markets, the grease effect of inflation dominates the sand effect …

This paper study the issue of institutional enforcement of regulations by focusing on labor-market policies and their … potential link to economic performance. It test the different impacts of enforceable and non-enforceable labor regulations by … proxying non-enforceable labor rigidity measures using data on conventions from the International Labor Organization (ILO). It …

higher labor flexibility. These effects occur within the sample of developed and developing countries and are very large in …