Decentralised economic development initiatives empowering local governments have gained currency in both developed and developing contexts. The empowerment of county governments in China is a case in point. This study uses difference-in-differences (DID) and the fixed-effects model with panel...

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to investigate how a country’s competitive tax policy influences its inward foreign direct investments (FDI) in the Asia-Pacific region, even when given particular constraints (e.g., population, public governance, skilled labor, and so on)...

Objectives: To investigate whether social trust is associated with more stress symptoms among middle-aged and older adults in six East and Southeast Asia regions during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: This multi-region study used cross-sectional survey data collected in May 2020. Participants...

This article investigates the nuanced and disaggregated role of state and civil society in the fight against COVID-19 in Hong Kong and Singapore through a comparative policy study . Hong Kong and Singapore provide two contrasting cases of state-society interaction under the framework of...

This study aims to investigate age-related differences in social spending preference in an Asian context, drawing on a random survey of more than 1,000 adults in Hong Kong in 2013. Contrary to conventional wisdom, older adults in Hong Kong do not exert a significant impact on the positive...

This article examines a particular type of central mandate in China, the mandate for nationwide across-the-board salary increases in the public sector. The making and implementation of this mandate epitomizes the changes and challenges in intergovernmental relations of a transition economy. Our...

Using a nationwide county-level panel dataset for the years 1995-2009, this paper conducts the rst analysis in the literature to examine the impacts of scal decentralization and scal equalization, both measured at the sub-provincial level, on intra-provincial inequality in China. While scal...