Asian-Pacific Economic Literature

1987 - 2025

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Volume 28, issue 2, 2014

Real exchange rate determination and the China puzzle pp. 1-32

Rodney Tyers and Ying Zhang

Natural disasters and the economy: some recent experiences from Southeast Asia pp. 33-51

Krislert Samphantharak

Determinants of migration from ASEAN-3 into Malaysia pp. 52-62

Idris Jajri and Rahmah Ismail

Misallocation and manufacturing TFP in Thailand pp. 63-76

Siwapong Dheera-aumpon

Bilateral trade between China and Canada: trends, patterns, and comparisons pp. 77-87

Su Fen and Ehsan Latif

There was once a Korean Model pp. 88-96

Shahid Yusuf

Economic Consequences of Globalization: Evidence from East Asia Architecture of Global Finance edited by Shujiro Urata, Chin Hee Hahn, and Dionisus Nrjoko (eds) Routledge, London, 2012 Pp. xvi + 236. ISBN 978 0415 68642 6 pp. 97-98

Prema-chandra Athukorala

Aging and Economic Growth in the Pacific Region edited by Akira Kohsaka (ed.) Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy, London and New York, 2013 Pp. 176. ISBN 978 0415 52422 3 pp. 98-100

Creina Day

Assessing China's Impact on Poverty in the Greater Mekong Subregion edited by Hossein Jalilian (ed.) ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, 2013 Pp.440. ISBN 978 9814 41419 7 pp. 100-101

Dyna Heng

Economic Growth and Employment in Vietnam by David Lim Routledge, London and New York, 2014 Pp.184. ISBN 978 0415 51944 1 pp. 101-102

Suiwah E. Leung

Widening Income Distribution in Post-Handover Hong Kong by Hon-Kwong Lui Routledge, London and New York, 2013 Pp. 146. ISBN 978 0415 51780 5 (hbk) pp. 102-104

Amy Liu

The Sum is Greater than the Parts: Doubling Shared Prosperity in Indonesia through Local and Global Integration by Australian National University Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School Indonesia Program, and Gramedia, Jakarta, 2013 Pp. xlviii + 274. ISBN 978792299670 pp. 104-105

Ross McLeod

Regional Dynamics in a Decentralised Indonesia edited by Hal Hill (ed.) ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, 2014 Pp. 538. ISBN 978 9814 45985 3 pp. 105-107

Jeff Neilson

The Rebirth of Education: Schooling Ain't Learning by Lant Pritchett Center for Global Development, Washington DC, 2013 Pp. 274. ISBN 978-1-933286-77-8 pp. 107-110

Steve Thomas

Trading Nation: Advancing Australia's Interests in World Markets by Mike Adams, Nicolas Brown, and Ron Wickes NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, 2013 Pp. 404. ISBN 978 1742 23401 4 pp. 110-111

Ray Trewin

The History of Ancient Chinese Economic Thought edited by Cheng Lin, Terry Peach, Wang Fang (eds) Routledge, London and New York, 2014 Pp. 236. ISBN 978 0415 50014 2 pp. 111-113

Xiaobing Wang

Volume 28, issue 1, 2014

Competition policy and intellectual property rights in the information and communications technology sector: Policy implications and options for ASEAN pp. 1-28

Thitapha Wattanapruttipaisan

The challenges of health financing in five South Pacific countries pp. 29-46

Ian Anderson, Susan Ivatts, Aparnaa Somanathan and Benjamin Rolfe

Regional stock markets and the economic development of Southeast Asia pp. 47-59

Scott J. Niblock, Panha Heng and Keith Sloan

ASEAN-5 bond market development: Where does it stand? Where is it going? pp. 60-75

Joshua Felman, Simon Gray, Mangal Goswami, Andreas Jobst, Mahmood Pradhan, Shanaka Peiris and Dulani Seneviratne

Developing ASEAN-5 bond markets: what needs to be done? pp. 76-95

Simon Gray, Joshua Felman, Ana Carvajal and Andreas Jobst

Is there income mobility in the Philippines? pp. 96-115

Arturo Martinez, Mark Western, Michele Haynes and Wojtek Tomaszewski

Poverty identification: practice and policy implications in Vietnam pp. 116-136

Cuong Nguyen and Anh Tran

Commodity prices and monetary policy in emerging East Asia during the global financial crisis pp. 137-160

Hsiao Chink Tang

Export survival pattern and its determinants: an empirical study of Chinese manufacturing firms pp. 161-177

Dahai Fu and Yanrui Wu

The growth path of the dynamic Asian economies pp. 178-186

Dilip K. Das

Catching the Wind: Penang in a Rising Asia edited by Francis E. Hutchinson and Johan Saravanamuttu (eds) Penang Institute, Penang, and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, 2012 Pp. 216. ISBN 978 981 4379 87 8 pp. 187-188

Toh Kin Woon

Demystifying the Chinese Economy by Justin Yifu Lin Cambridge University Press, New York, 2011 Pp. 330. ISBN 978 0 521 19180 7 pp. 189-190

Christopher Findlay

Financial Crisis and Institutional Change in East Asia by Jikon Lai Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2012 Pp. 240. ISBN 978 0 2303 60631 pp. 190-191

Edmund Terence Gomez

Global Economic Crisis: Impacts, Transmission and Recovery edited by Maurice Obstfeld, Dongchul Cho, and Andrew Mason (eds) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham and Northampton, 2012 Pp. 278. ISBN 978 1 78100 629 0 pp. 191-193

Joon-Ho Hahm

Clusters and Economic Growth in Asia edited by Sören Eriksson (ed.) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2013 Pp. 190. ISBN 978 0 85793 008 8 pp. 193-194

Keiko Ito

Financial Globalization and Regionalism in East Asia edited by Takuji Kinkyo, Yoichi Matsubayashi, and Shigeyuki Hamori (eds) Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, 2012 Pp. 208. ISBN 978-0-415-65984-0 pp. 194-195

Ramkishen Rajan

Middle Class China: Identity and Behaviour by Minglu Chen and David S.G. Goodman Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2013 Pp. 204. ISBN 978 1 78100 570 5 pp. 195-197

Tao Sherry Kong

China as a Leader of the World Economy by Gregory C. Chow World Scientific Publishing Co. Inc., Singapore, 2012 Pp. 223. ISBN 978 9814 36879 7 pp. 197-199

Ligang Song

The ASEAN Economic Community: A Work in Progress edited by Sanchita Basu Das, Jayant Menon, Rodolfo C. Severino, and Omkar Lal Shrestha (eds) Asian Development Bank and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2013 Pp. 407. ISBN 978 981 4519 01 4 pp. 199-200

Linda Low

Shades of Grey: A Political Memoir of Modern Indonesia 1965–1998 by Jusuf Wanandi Equinox Publishing, Singapore, 2012 Pp. 295. ISBN 978 979 3780 92 4 pp. 200-201

Peter McCawley

Education in Indonesia edited by Daniel Suryadarma and Gavin W. Jones (eds) Institute of South East Asian Studies, Singapore, 2013 Pp. 280. ISBN 978 981 4515 04 7 pp. 202-203

Tham Siew Yean

Capitalizing China edited by Joseph P.H. Fan and Randall Morck (eds) Chicago University Press for NBER, Chicago, 2012 Pp. 368. ISBN 978 022 623 7244 pp. 203-205

Xiaobing Wang

Sino-Russian Oil and Gas Cooperation: The Reality and Implications by Keun-Wook Paik Oxford University Press for the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies, Oxford, 2012 Pp. 506. ISBN 978-0-19-965635-6 pp. 205-206

Michael Wesley

China's Economic Development: Institutions, Growth and Imbalances by Ming Lu, Zhao Chen, Yongqin Wang, Yan Zhang, Yuan Zhang, and Changyuan Luo Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2013 Pp. 233. ISBN 978 0 85793 508 3 pp. 206-207

Dong Dong Zhang

Volume 27, issue 2, 2013

New structural economics: the third wave of development thinking pp. 1-13

Justin Lin

Lessons from the great recession for developing countries pp. 14-24

Anne O. Krueger

Narrowing the development divide in ASEAN: the role of policy pp. 25-51

Jayant Menon

Mind the gaps: a political economy of the multiple dimensions of China's rural–urban divide pp. 52-67

Xiaobing Wang, Jenifer Piesse and Nick Weaver

The internationalization of the RMB: where does the RMB currently stand in the process of internationalization pp. 68-85

Yuming Cui

Regional determinants of life insurance consumption: evidence from selected Asian economies pp. 86-103

Subir Sen and S Madheswaran

Do more highly educated entrepreneurs matter? pp. 104-116

Faqin Lin, Can Huang, Xiaobo He and Chao Zhang

The impact of information and communication technology on international trade in fruit and vegetables in APEC pp. 117-130

Kit Chi Chung, Pauline Fleming and Euan Fleming

The role of market imperfections in the relationship between housing prices and household credit: Evidence from Taiwan pp. 131-143

An-Pin Wei, Wei-Ling Huang, Chih-Yuan Yang and Ming-Chi Chen

Who goes where and how? Firm and country characteristics in the choice of FDI type and location pp. 144-158

Hea-Jung Hyun and Jung Hur

The Great Rebalancing: trade, conflict and the perilous road ahead for the world economy by Michael Pettis Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2013 Pp. 1–205. ISBN 978 0 691 15868 6 pp. 159-161

Charles Adams

How Asia Works: success and failure in the world's most dynamic region by Joe Studwell Grove Press, New York, 2013 Pp. 320. ISBN 978 0 8021 1959 9 pp. 161-163

Stephen Grenville

Public Debt Sustainability in Developing Asia edited by Benno Ferrarini, Raghbendra Jha, and Arief Ramayandi (eds) Routledge/ADB, London, 2012 Pp. xiv + 211. ISBN 0415522218 pp. 164-165

Shinji Asanuma

Infrastructure Regulation: what works, why and how do we know? lessons from Asia and beyond edited by Darryl S.L. Jarvis, M. Ramesh, Xun Wu, and Eduardo Araral, Jr. (eds) World Scientific, Singapore, 2011 Pp. xxi, 599. ISBN 13 978 981 4335 73 7 pp. 165-166

Douglas H. Brooks

China and the Multinationals edited by Robert Pearce (ed.) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2011 Pp. ix + 204. ISBN 978 1 84844 668 7 pp. 166-167

Edward K.Y. Chen

Internationalizing Higher Education in Malaysia edited by Tham Siew Yean (ed.) Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2013 Pp. xiii + 147. ISBN 978 981 4380 96 6 pp. 167-169

Peter J. Drake

Multilateral Banks and the Development Process: vital links in the results chain by Vinod Thomas and Xubei Luo Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, 2012 Pp. xxiii + 156. ISBN 978 1 4128 4767 4 pp. 169-170

Ron Duncan

New Structural Economics: a framework for rethinking development and policy by Justin Yifu Lin World Bank, Washington, DC, 2012 Pp. xi + 371. ISBN 9780821389553 pp. 170-171

Geoffrey Harcourt

The Global Financial Crisis and Asia: Implications and Challenges edited by Masahiro Kawai, Mario B. Lamberte, and Yung Chul Park (eds) Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2012 Pp. xviii + 324. ISBN 978-0-19-966095-7 pp. 171-173

Ulrich Hiemenz

The Political Economy of State-owned Enterprises in China and India edited by Xu Yi-Chong (ed.) Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2012 Pp. 277. ISBN 978 0 230 36074 7 pp. 173-174

Francis E. Hutchinson

Asia Rising: growth and resilience in an uncertain global economy edited by Hal Hill and Maria Socorro Gochoco-Bautista (eds) Asian Development Bank and Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, 2013 Pp. xvi + 424. ISBN 978 1 78100 797 6 pp. 174-176

Anne Krueger

Economic Growth and Income Inequality in China, India, and Singapore: trends and policy implications edited by Pundarik Mukhopadhaya, G. Shantakumar, and Bhanoji Rao (eds) Routledge, London and New York, 2011 Pp. 185. ISBN 978 0 415616461 pp. 176-177

Alberto Posso

The Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Economy 1920 to 1938: a national accounts study by M.R.P. Salgado Social Scientists’ Association, Colombo, 2011 Pp. xvi + 323. ISBN 978 955 1772 99 4 pp. 177-178

Pierre van der Eng

Volume 27, issue 1, 2013

Coastal-inland interactions in Burmese history: a long-term perspective pp. 1-26

Ronald Findlay

Development trajectories: Hong Kong vs. Shanghai pp. 27-39

Niv Horesh

Education and human capital development in the giants of Asia pp. 40-61

Gavin Jones and Divya Ramchand

Gender exclusion in social security protection: evidence from Korea pp. 62-78

Joonmo Cho, Jaeseong Lee and Taehee Kwon

Corruption in Southeast Asia: a survey of recent research pp. 79-109

Krisztina Kis-Katos and Günther Schulze

Real exchange rate appreciation, resource boom, and policy reform in Myanmar pp. 110-126

Koji Kubo

International production networks and host country productivity: evidence from Malaysia pp. 127-146

Andrew Jia-Yi Kam

Legal frameworks and credit information systems in China, Korea, and Singapore pp. 147-155

Kwangsuk Han, Yeonho Lee and Chanil Park

An Economic History of Indonesia 1800–2010 by Jan Luiten van Zanden and Daan Marks London: Routledge, 2012 Pp. xviii + 263. ISBN 9780415674126 pp. 156-158

Jeffrey G. Williamson

Land and Loyalty: Security and the Development of Property Rights in Thailand by Tomas Larsson Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2012 Pp. xii + 208. ISBN 978-0-8014-5081-5 (hardback) pp. 159-160

Chris Baker

Indonesia Rising: The Repositioning of Asia's Third Giant edited by Anthony Reid (ed.) Indonesia update series: College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University and ISEAS Singapore, 2012 Pp. xxiv +198. ISBN: 978-981-430-40-9 pp. 160-161

Anne Booth

Built on Dreams, Grounded in Reality: Economic Policy Reform in the Philippines The Asia Foundation Makati City, Philippines, 2011 Pp. 306. ISBN 978 971 92445 7 8 pp. 161-162

Ron Duncan

The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off by Justin Yifu Lin Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2012 Pp. xvii + 322. ISBN 978-0-691-15589-0 pp. 162-163

Ron Duncan

Malaysia's Development Challenges: Graduating from the Middle edited by Hal Hill, Tham Siew Yean, and Ragayah Haji Mat Zin (eds) Routledge, London and New York, 2012 Pp. xxvi + 348. ISBN 978 0415 63193 8 pp. 163-165

Charles Hirschman

The Indonesian Economy: Entering a New Era edited by Aris Ananta, Muljana Soekarni, and Sjamsul Arifin (eds) Bank Indonesia, Jakarta, and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2011 P. 427. ISBN 978 9814 31165 6 pp. 165-168

Akhand Hossain

Indonesia's Economy Since Independence by Thee Kian Wie Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2012 P. 307. ISBN 978 9814 37963 2 pp. 168-169

Akhand Hossain

India and Southeast Asia: Strategic Convergence in the Twenty-first Century edited by Nirmala Devi and Adluri Subramanyam Raju (eds) ISEAS, Singapore and Manohar, New Delhi, 2012 P. 361. ISBN 978 9814 37986 1 Two Decades of India's Look East Policy: Partnership for Peace, Progress and Prosperity edited by Amar Nath Ram (ed.) ISEAS, Singapore and Manohar, New Delhi, 2012 P. 257. ISBN 978 981 4380 21 8 pp. 170-172

Raghbendra Jha

Macroeconomic and Monetary Policy Issues in Indonesia by Akhand Akhtar Hossain Routledge, London, 2012 Pp. xxvii + 401. ISBN 978 0415 59598 8 pp. 172-173

Lloyd Kenward

Diagnosing the Indonesian Economy: Toward Inclusive and Green Growth edited by H. Hill, M.E. Khan, and J. Zhuang (eds) Anthem Press, London, and Asian Development Bank, Manila, 2012 Pp. xxi + 482. ISBN 978 0857 28447 1 pp. 173-174

Fredrik Sjöholm

Rebalancing and Sustaining Growth in China edited by Huw McKay and Ligang Song (eds) The Australian National University Press, Canberra, and Social Sciences Academic Press (China), Beijing Pp. xxi + 364. ISBN 978 1921 86279 3 (pbk) and 978 1921 86280 9 (e-book) pp. 174-176

John Thoburn

Financing Higher Education and Economic Development in East Asia edited by Shiro Armstrong and Bruce Chapman (eds) ANU E Press, Canberra, 2011 P. 282. ISBN 978 1921 66662 9 pp. 176-177

Glenn Withers