Abstract Although the voluntary sector is internationally valued as an integral component of the welfare mix, studies on East Asian welfare regimes have primarily focused on state-market-family interactions, paying scant attention to the long-standing and pivotal role of voluntary agencies in...

The launch of the economic and monetary union in Europe and the 1997 financial crisis that underscored the disadvantages of currently employed exchange rate regimes raised questions about the feasibility of a similar monetary unification project for East Asia. Being one of the most dynamically...

Professor Kojima of Hitotsubashi University is a leading Japanese economist in international economics. Two of his major ideas are reviewed: a theory of pro-trade FDI and an extended "flying-geese" theory of industrial development. Kojima's pro-trade FDI (which rests on the doctrine of...

In static applied general equilibrium models, the exogenous/endogenous split between variables (or closure) is used to infer the time frame over which the effects of a shock are simulated. This paper introduces a long-run closure for the GTAP model (Hertel and Tsigas, 1997) and uses this closure...

Fast and shared growth in East Asia was ascribed to strong states and their peculiar institutional arrangements, free-market policies, and Asian values, respectively. This paper provides a critical overview of these rival accounts explaining the miracle and on post-crisis retrenchement. As...

Reviews the forms and magnitude of labour migration in East Asia and examines the important factors contributing to irregular migration in the region, including immigration policy in destination countries. It also looks at the developmental impact of regularizing the irregular migrants from...

Comments on the economic and social development of 28 countries of the Asia-Pacific region during the period 1990-2003.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper describing rural migration and internal migration patterns in the East Asia and South East Asia - maintains that the character of economic growth and types of economic policies adopted conditions internal migration flows; concludes that attention to rural...