This paper investigates whether market information is reliable to predict financial deterioration of large Too Big To Fail banks in Asia. A stepwise logit model is first estimated to isolate the optimal set of accounting indicators to predict rating downgrades. The model is then extended to...

This paper investigates whether market information is reliable to predict financial deterioration of large Too Big To Fail banks in Asia. A stepwise logit model is first estimated to isolate the optimal set of accounting indicators to predict rating downgrades. The model is then extended to...

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...