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This working paper analyzes demographic change in Southeast Asia's main cities during and soon after the World War II Japanese occupation.  We argue that two main patterns of population movements are evident.  In food-deficient areas, a search for food security typically led to large net...
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Between the 1870s and World War II, falls in world shipping costs and Western industrialisation gave rise to export-led Southeast Asian growth and specialization in a narrow range of primary commodity exports.  A linked development was the emergence of a few dominant Southeast Asian urban...
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Between the 1870s and World War II, falls in world shipping costs and Western industrialisation gave rise to export-led Southeast Asian growth and specialization in a narrow range of primary commodity exports. A linked development was the emergence of a few dominant Southeast Asian urban...
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Throughout the imperial era, defensive walls surrounded Chinese cities. Although most city walls have vanished, the cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in China, among which about half historically had city walls. We document that cities that had...
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With a self-constructed, unique historical data set for 240 counties that spans over centuries, this paper uses the ‘quasi-natural experiment' of capital relocation in 1421, during China's Ming Dynasty, as an exogenous shock to study the relationship between political governance and urban...
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this method to Indonesia’s and Japan’s pre- and post-decentralization eras, beset by efficiency–equity trade-offs between …. First, as excessive economic activity regions in two countries, the capital region in Japan mostly shows the highest returns … concentration in the Java-Bali region before and after decartelization regime while the Japan’s government pursues the pro …
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histories and institutional changes from the pre-modern political-economic states in China and Japan …
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Success in reducing monetary poverty in Southeast Asia does not fully translate into reduction in malnutrition. Using a three-year panel data from one province each in Thailand, Lao PDR and Vietnam, we study the correlation between monetary poverty and nutritional outcomes of children under...
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This paper analyzes how Japan financed its World War II occupation of Southeast Asia, the transfer of resources to … Japan, and the monetary and inflation consequences of Japanese policies. In Malaya, Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines … inflation, hyperinflation hardly occurred because of a sustained transactions demand for money, because of Japan's strong …
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