Asian-Pacific Economic Literature

1987 - 2024

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Volume 31, issue 2, 2017

Reform in an imperfect world: the case of Indonesia pp. 3-18

Muhamad Basri

Middle-income countries: trapped or merely slowing? pp. 19-29

Shahid Yusuf

The Asian crisis: what did we learn and when did we learn it? pp. 30-44

Stephen Grenville

The emerging core characteristics of Vietnam's political economy pp. 45-60

Adam Fforde

How growth deceleration in the PRC affects other Asian economies pp. 61-77

Minsoo Lee, Donghyun Park and Arief Ramayandi

Host countries’ growth opportunities and China's outward FDI pp. 78-95

Jun Shen and Li Li

TBT and SPS impacts on Korean exports to China: empirical analysis using the PPML method pp. 96-114

Jacob Wood, Jie Wu, Yilin Li and Jungsuk Kim

Determinants of bilateral trade: evidence from ASEAN+3 pp. 115-122

Dong Phong Nguyen and Xuan Vinh Vo

Industry competition in China: an external governance mechanism or an external incentive pp. 123-136

Tingting Zhang, Weiqiang Zeng, Ruohan Zhong and Yanxi Li

India’s Long Road: The Search for Prosperity by Vijay Joshi Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016 Pp. xi + 345. ISBN 978 0 19 061013 5 pp. 137-145

Prema-chandra Athukorala

The Despot’s Guide to Wealth Management: On the International Campaign Against Grand Corruption by Jason C. Sharman Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2017 Pp. 274. ISBN 978 1 5017 0551 9 pp. 145-148

Medhi Krongkaew

Outward Foreign Direct Investment in ASEAN edited by Cassey Lee and Sineenat Sermcheep (eds) ISEAS Publishing, Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, 2017 Pp. 231 + xix. ISBN 978 981 47 6240 3 pp. 148-150

Theodore H. Moran

Banking on the future of Asia and the Pacific: 50 years of the Asian Development Bank by Peter McCawley Asian Development Bank, Manila, 2017 Pp. 522. ISBN 978 92 9257 791 9 pp. 151-155

Gerardo P. Sicat

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Path to Free Trade in the Asia Pacific edited by Peter C.Y. Chow (ed.) Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, UK, 2016 Pp. 305 + ix. ISBN 978 1 78536 003 9 pp. 156-157

Malcolm Bosworth

Dictators, Democrats, and Development in Southeast Asia: Implications for the Rest by Michael T. Rock Oxford University Press, New York, 2017 Pp. xvii +342. ISBN 978 0 19 061986 2 pp. 157-159

Dilip K. Das

The Evolution of Central Banking and Monetary Policy in the Asia-Pacific by Akhand Akhtar Hossain Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, UK, 2015 Pp. 636. ISBN: 978 0 85793 780 3 pp. 159-160

Hemantha K.J. Ekanayake

Economic Change in Modern Indonesia: Colonial and Post-Colonial Comparisons by Anne Booth Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2016 Pp. x + 261. ISBN 978 1 107 10922 3 (hardback); 978 1 107 52139 1 (paperback) pp. 160-162

David Henley

Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization by Branko Milanovic Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2016 Pp. 299 + ix. ISBN: 978067473136 pp. 162-164

Hal Hill

Promises and Predicaments: Trade and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Independent Indonesia in the 19th and 20th Centuries edited by Alicia Schrikker and Jeroen Touwen (eds) NUS Press, Singapore, 2015 Pp. 334. ISBN: 978 9971 69 851 5 pp. 164-165

Masato Karashima

Age Related Pension Expenditure and Fiscal Space: Modelling Techniques and Case Studies from East Asia edited by Mukul G. Asher and Fauziah Zen (eds) Routledge, London, 2016 Pp. 190 + xiv. ISBN 978 1 38 82579 6 pp. 165-167

Wasana Karunarathne

Australia’s Foreign Aid Dilemma: Humanitarian Aspirations Confront Democratic Legitimacy by Jack Corbett Routledge, Abingdon, 2017 Pp. 214 + xv. ISBN: 978 1 138 69671 6 pp. 167-169

Peter McCawley

Competition Law, Regulation and SMEs in the Asia-Pacific: Understanding the Small Business Perspective edited by Michael T. Schaper and Cassey Lee (eds) Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2016 Pp. 395 + xx. ISBN 978 981 4695 80 0 pp. 169-171

Burton Ong

The Asian ‘Poverty Miracle’ Impressive Accomplishments or Incomplete Achievements? edited by Jacques Silber and Guanghua Wan (eds) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2016 Pp. 329 + ix. ISBN 978 1 78536 914 8 pp. 171-172

Anu Rammohan

The SIJORI Cross-Border Region: Transnational Politics, Economics, and Culture edited by Francis E. Hutchinson and Terence Chong (eds) ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, 2016 Pp. 481 + xxvii. ISBN 978 981 4695 58 9 pp. 172-174

James D Sidaway

Achieving Food Security in China: The Challenges Ahead by Zhang-Yue Zhou Routledge, Oxford and New York, 2017 Pp. 156. ISBN 978 1 138 80747 1 pp. 174-176

Ray Trewin

Living Next to the Giant: The Political Economy of Vietnam’s Relations with China under Doi Moi by Le Hong Hiep ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, 2017 Pp. viii–xiv, 1–259. ISBN: 978 981 4459 63 1 pp. 176-177

Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet

Volume 31, issue 1, 2017

Exchange rate policy in the pacific: an evaluation of currency basket regimes pp. 3-20

Naoyuki Yoshino, Matthias Helble and Ahmad Prasetyo

Exporter responses to FTA tariff preferences: evidence from Thailand pp. 21-38

Juthathip Jongwanich and Archanun Kohpaiboon

Real exchange rate misalignment of Asian currencies pp. 39-52

Dosse Toulaboe

Impacts of household loan regulation on financial stability: evidence from Korea pp. 53-65

Dong Jin Shin and Brian H.S. Kim

Privatisation and trade performance: evidence from China pp. 66-78

Jing Yan

The impact of tax rebates on export performance: China's textile exports to the USA pp. 79-89

Qun Bao, Jack Hou, Kunwang Li and Xiaosong Wang

Crisis and Recovery: Learning from the Asian Experience by Jong-Wha Lee World Scientific Publishing 2016 Pp. xxxix + 593. ISBN 978 981 4749 63 3 pp. 90-91

Andrew Elek

China's Next Strategic Advantage: From Imitation to Innovation by George S. Yip and Bruce McKern The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2016 Pp. 304. ISBN 978 026 2034 586 pp. 91-93

Nicholas C. Hope

China's Economic Growth Prospects: From Demographic Dividend to Reform Dividend by Cai Fang Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2016 Pp. xii + 234. ISBN 978 1 78100 584 2 pp. 93-94

Chao Li

From Darkness to Light: Energy Security Assessment in Indonesia's Power Sector by Maxensius Tri Sambodo ISEAS: Yusof Ishak Institute. Singapore, 2016 Pp. xx + 194. ISBN 978 981 4695 3 (soft cover), 978 981 4695 48 0 (E-book PDF) pp. 94-95

Peter McCawley

Measuring Welfare Beyond Economics: The Genuine Progress of Hong Kong and Singapore by Claudio O. Delang and Yi Hang Yu Routledge, London, 2015 Pp. 194. ISBN 978 0415 813 839 pp. 96-97

Pundarik Mukhopadhaya

Mindanao: The Long Journey to Peace and Prosperity edited by Paul D. Hutchcroft (ed.) Anvil Publishing, Manila, 2016 Pp. 336. ISBN: 978 6 214 20008 5 pp. 97-99

Matthew Stephens

The Political Economy of China's Great Transformation by Xingyuan Feng, Christer Ljungwall, and Sujian Guo Routledge, London, 2017 Pp. xx + 243. ISBN: 978 1 138 94400 8 pp. 99-101

Dong Dong Zhang

Volume 30, issue 2, 2016

Four-G Episode and the elevated risks pp. 3-32

Iwan J Azis

Trade openness and income inequality in China and the SAARC Region pp. 33-44

Muhammad Zakaria and Bashir Ahmed Fida

Union relevance in the Malaysian labour market pp. 45-56

Hazrul Shahiri, Zulkifly Osman and Kihong Park

Understanding FDI and production networks in East Asia pp. 57-71

Willem Thorbecke and Nimesh Salike

Assessing the trade impacts of the ASEAN + 6 FTA for Lao PDR pp. 72-89

Sithanonxay Suvannaphakdy, Hsiao Chink Tang and Alisa DiCaprio

From share issue privatisation to non-tradable share reform: a review of privatisation in China pp. 90-104

Feng Xie, Jing Chi and Jing Liao

Connecting Asia: Infrastructure for Integrating South and Southeast Asia Michael G. Plummer, Peter J. Morgan, and Ganeshan Wignaraja (eds) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2016 Pp. 395 + xv. ISBN 978 1 78536 347 4 pp. 105-106

Douglas H. Brooks

Land and Development in Indonesia: Searching for the Peoples' Sovereignty J.F. McCarthy and K. Robinson (eds) Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2016 P. 395. ISBN: 978-981-47-6209-0 pp. 106-108

Ian Coxhead

Understanding Development Economics. Adam Fforde Routledge, London and New York, 2013 Pp. 354. ISBN: 978-0-415-86982-9 pp. 108-109

Dilip K. Das

Socioeconomic Development A. Szirmai ( Second Edition ) Cambridge University Press, 2015 Pp. 763 + xxx. ISBN: 0-521-81763-3 pp. 109-111

Emmanuel S. Dios

Moving the AEC Beyond 2015: Managing Domestic Consensus for Community Building Tham Siew Yean and Sanchita Basu Das (eds) Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2016 Pp. 211. ISBN: 978-981-4695-51-0 ASEAN Economic Community: A Model for Asia-Wide Regional Integration? Bruno Jetin and Mia Mikic (eds) Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2016 Pp. 350. ISBN: 978-1-137-53710-2 pp. 111-112

Evelyn Devadason

Macro-financial Linkages in the Pacific Region Akira Kohsaka (ed) Routledge, 2015 P. 284. ISBN: 9781138806535 pp. 113-114

Mardi Dungey

The Myanmar Economy: Its Past, Present, and Prospects Konosuke Odaka (ed) Springer, 2016 Pp. 239. ISBN 13:9784431557340 pp. 114-115

Ronald Findlay

The Evolving Sphere of Food Security Rosamond L. Naylor (ed) Oxford University Press, New York, 2014 P. 416. ISBN: 9780199354061 pp. 115-117

R. Quentin Grafton

The Yudhoyono Presidency: Indonesia's Decade of Stability and Stagnation Edward Aspinall, Marcus Mietzner, and Dirk Tomsa (eds) ISEAS Publishing, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2015 P. 362. ISBN 978-981-4620-71-0 pp. 117-119

R. William Liddle

The Price of Oil Roberto F Aguilera and Marian Radetzki Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2016 P. 242. ISBN: 9781107110014 pp. 119-120

Philip Maxwell

Strengthening Social Protection in East Asia Mukul G. Asher and F. Kimura (eds) Taylor and Francis, London P. 258. ISBN: 9781317510666 pp. 120-121

Riyana Miranti

Development and Modern Industrial Policy Practice: Issues and Country Experiences Jesus Felipe (ed) Asian Development Bank and Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015 P. 406. ISBN: 978784715533 pp. 121-123

Patarapong Intarakumnerd

Mineral Economics and Policy J E Tilton and J I Guzmán RFF Press, New York City, 2016 Pp. 255. ISBN: 978-1-138-83895-6 pp. 123-124

Marian Radetzki

Australia's Indonesia Project: 50 Years of Engagement Colin Brown Bobby Graham Publishers, Manuka, 2015 Pp. 128. ISBN: 978-0-9874041-4-5 pp. 125-127

Christian Lübke

Partners and Rivals: The Uneasy Future of China's Relationship with the United States Wendy Dobson University of Toronto Press, 2013 Pp. 136. ISBN: 978-1-4426-4752-7 pp. 125-125

James Riedel

Education Matters: Global Schooling Gains from the 19th to the 21-super-st Century Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee Oxford University Press, New York, 2015 P. 304. ISBN: 13: 9780199379231 pp. 127-128

Glenn Withers

Volume 30, issue 1, 2016

A state-level analysis of the economic impacts of medical tourism in Malaysia pp. 3-29

Jeroen Klijs, Meghann Ormond, Tomas Mainil, Jack Peerlings and Wim Heijman

‘Thailand-plus-one’: a GVC-led development strategy for Cambodia pp. 30-41

Ikuo Kuroiwa

Myanmar: building economic foundations pp. 42-64

Ronald Findlay, Cyn-Young Park and Jean-Pierre A. Verbiest

Death of linkages in host countries? A firm-level study on the channels of productivity spillovers in the Malaysian manufacturing sector pp. 65-79

Andrew Jia Yi Kam

Firm agglomeration and local poverty reduction: evidence from an economy in transition pp. 80-98

Long Giang, Cuong Nguyen and Tuyen Tran

The ‘trilemma’ hypothesis and policy implications for Fiji pp. 99-119

Hyeon-seung Huh, Philip Inyeob Ji and Cyn-Young Park

Trade facilitation in ASEAN countries: harmonisation of logistics policies pp. 120-134

Anh T. Nguyen, Thuy Nguyen and Giang T. Hoang

Employment and Inclusive Development Rizwanul Islam and Iyanatul Islam Routledge Studies in Development Economics, London and New York, 2015 Pp. xxii + 263. ISBN: 978-0-415-82598-6 ASEAN Community 2015: Managing Integration for Better Jobs and Shared Prosperity Asian Development Bank and International Labour Office, Bangkok, 2014 Pp. xvi + 137. ISBN: 978-92-2-128869-5 pp. 135-139

Chris Manning

Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Economies edited by Ian Coxhead (ed.) Routledge, London and New York, 2015 Pp. 440. ISBN: 978-0-415-65994-9 pp. 139-143

Adam Szirmai

Income Inequality in Singapore by Pundarik Mukhopadhaya Routledge, Abingdon, 2015 Pp. xiii +189. ISBN 978-0-415-50489-8 pp. 144-145

Anne Booth

Weighing in on the Philippine Economy and Social Progress G. P. Sicat Anvil Publishing Inc, Mandaluyong, 2013, Pp.274. ISBN: 978-9-712-72826-6 pp. 145-147

Michael Cabalfin

Cesar Virata. Life and Times through Four Decades of Philippine Economic History Gerardo P. Sicat The University of the Philippines Press, Quezon City, 2014 Pp. 843 + x. ISBN 978-971-542-742-5 pp. 147-149

Hal Hill

Japan and Asia: Economic Development and Nation Building by Shinichi Ichimura World Scientific Press, Singapore, 2015 Pp. 468. ISBN: 978-981-4632-09-6 pp. 149-150

Jang-Hee Yoo

China's Technological Catch-up Strategy: Industrial Development, Energy Efficiency and CO 2 Emissions Michael T. Rock and Michael A. Toman Oxford University Press, New York, 2015 Pp. xvi + 274. ISBN: 978-0-199-38532-4 pp. 151-152

Stephen Morgan

The Global Coal Market, Supplying the Major Fuel for Emerging Economies edited by M. C. Thurber and R. K. Morse (eds.) Cambridge University Press, 2015 Pp.702. ISBN: 978-1-107-09242-6 pp. 152-153

Marian Radetzki

China's Rise and Regional Integration in East Asia: Hegemony or Community? edited by Yong Wook Lee and Key-young Son (eds.) Routledge, 2014 Pp. 176. ISBN: 978-0-415-73513-1 pp. 153-154

Rahul Sen

Economic Development of Taiwan: Early Experiences and the Pacific Trade Triangle by Frank S.T. Hsiao and Mei-Chu Wang Hsiao World Scientific Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., Singapore, 2015 Pp. 578. ISBN: 978-981-4618-50-2 pp. 154-156

Pan-Long Tsai