This paper investigates the short- and long-run Indonesian regional labour market integration using Johansen's system approach. The authors have tested for a number of co integrating relationships and common trends among West-Java, East-Java, Central-Java and Jakarta, wage rates, and for the...

Sri Lanka has experienced a series of changes in its trade regime since attaining independence from British colonial rule in 1948. During the first decade after independence it continued with a liberal trade regime, until growing balance of payments problems induced a policy shift towards...

Deforestation is considered a major environmental issue in tropical Asian developing countries that have been undergoing major demographic and structural changes. A major contributing factor to deforestation is conversion of land for alternative, primarily agricultural, uses. There have been...

Relatively few studies have empirically examined the link between productivity growth and policy liberalization, and the evidence, though generally supportive of the hypothesis, is somewhat mixed and the levels and changes in growth rates vary substantially across countries. There is clearly...

Subsidised credit, a key component of many programs designed to facilitate rapid adoption of new agricultural technologies in developing countries, has been almost unanimously condemned by economists on both efficiency and equity grounds. This paper argues that such analysis have typically...