(This is a revised version of a paper prepared for the World Bank project on East Asia's Future Economy, coordinated by Shahid Yusuf, and first presented at a conference at Harvard University, October 1-2.)

Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state, and one of the most spatially diverse nations on earth in its resource endowments, population settlements, location of economic activity, ecology and ethnicity. The regional socio-economic data base now extends over 30 years, and so it is...

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Notwithstanding its sometimes negative international image, the Philippine economy has been performing well in recent years. The country is currently experiencing its longest period - five years - of uninterrupted positive per capita economic growth since the 1970s. The key to the recent success...

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