Asian Development Review (ADR)

1983 - 2026

Continuation of Asian Development Review.

Current editor(s): Tetsushi Sonobe

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Volume 41, issue 02, 2024

Structural Transformation in Asia and the Pacific pp. 1-5

John Gibson

Trade Openness and the Growth–Poverty Nexus: A Reappraisal with a New Openness Indicator pp. 7-29

Wannaphong Durongkaveroj

Demography, Growth, and Robots in Advanced and Emerging Economies pp. 31-56

Antonio Francesco Gravina and Matteo Lanzafame

Shifting Trade Winds: Southeast Asia’s Response to the United States–People’s Republic of China Trade Dispute pp. 57-80

Sunghun Lim and Anh Phuoc Thien Nguyen

The Impact of Special Economic Zones on Economic Development: Evidence from Nightlight Analysis in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic pp. 81-105

Nilaphy Phommachanh

Minimum Wage and Educational Pathways in Indonesia: General or Vocational Tracks? pp. 107-135

Dyah Pritadrajati, Nurina Merdikawati, Sweta Saxena and Alexander Tjahjadi

Double Dualism, Economic Growth Slowdown, and Falling Income Inequality in Thailand pp. 137-169

Tanadej Vechsuruck and Praopan Pratoomchat

Why Do Chinese and Indian Positions on Climate Differ? Labor Surplus Absorption as a Key Factor pp. 171-192

Pierre Berthaud, Yann Fontana and Laã‹titia Guilhot

Which Nighttime Lights Data Better Represent India’s Economic Activities and Regional Inequality? pp. 193-217

Christopher Kuruvilla Mathen, Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Sohini Sahu and Abhijit Mukherjee

Gravity-Based Tools to Assess the Impact of Tariff Changes: An Application to Armenia pp. 219-256

Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan and Jules Hugot

Bilateral Remittance Inflows to Asia and the Pacific: Countercyclicality and Motivations to Remit pp. 257-300

Kijin Kim, Zemma Ardaniel, Aiko Kikkawa and Benjamin Endriga

Social Capital and Economic Development in a Large and Multi-Ethnic Developing Country: Evidence from Indonesia pp. 301-323

Asep Suryahadi, Arnita Rishanty and Robert Sparrow

Fiscal Policy Determinants of Health Spending in India: State Versus Center pp. 325-347

Deepak Kumar Behera, Dil Rahut and Umakant Dash

Volume 41, issue 01, 2024

Special Issue on Health Capacity to Work among Older Persons in Asia pp. 1-3

Yasuyuki Sawada and Aiko Kikkawa

Health Capacity to Work among Older Persons in Asia: Key Findings from a Regional Comparative Study pp. 5-37

Aiko Kikkawa, Takashi Oshio, Yasuyuki Sawada, Satoshi Shimizutani, Naohiro Ogawa, Albert Park and Tetsushi Sonobe

Understanding the Health Capacity to Work among Older Persons in Rural and Urban Areas in the People’s Republic of China pp. 39-67

Zeyuan Chen and Albert Park

Older People’s Capacity to Work in Indonesia pp. 69-94

Ni Wayan Suriastini, Ika Yulia Wijayanti and Dwi Oktarina

Health Capacity to Work among Older Japanese Persons pp. 95-120

Takashi Oshio, Satoshi Shimizutani and Aiko Kikkawa

Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in the Republic of Korea pp. 121-145

Sang-Hyop Lee, Cheol-Kon Park, Hyun Kyung Kim and Donghyun Park

Health Capacity to Work among Older Malaysians pp. 147-168

Norma Mansor, Halimah Awang and Donghyun Park

Health Capacity to Work among Older People in Thailand pp. 169-194

Jiaying Zhao, Chi Kin Law, John Piggott and Vasoontara Sbirakos Yiengprugsawan

Health Capacity to Work among Older Adults in Viet Nam pp. 195-225

Long Giang, Aiko Kikkawa and Donghyun Park

Equalization through the People’s Republic of China’s Intergovernmental Fiscal System: The Effectiveness of Central and Provincial Transfers pp. 227-261

Xiao Tan and Ying Tan

Compiling Granular Population Data Using Geospatial Information pp. 263-300

Katharina Fenz, Thomas Mitterling, Arturo M. Martinez, Joseph Albert Nino M. Bulan, Ron Lester S. Durante, Marymell A. Martillan, Mildred B. Addawe and Isabell Roitner-Fransecky

Assessing Regional Inequalities in Kazakhstan through Well-Being pp. 301-333

Andrã‰s Rodrã Guez-Pose, Federico Bartalucci, Bakhytzhan Kurmanov, Genadiy Rau and Kaisar Nigmetov

Enhancing Enterprise Integration: Analyzing the Impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative on High-Quality Development in the People’s Republic of China pp. 335-363

Zhiyang Shen, Songkai Wang and Su Liu

Volume 40, issue 02, 2023

Mini Symposium: Selected Papers from AEDC 2022 pp. 1-3

Xin Meng

Not All That It Seems: Narrowing of Gender Gaps in Employment during the Onset of COVID-19 in Indonesia pp. 5-38

Daniel Halim, Sean Hambali and Ririn Salwa Purnamasari

Predicting Provincial Gross Domestic Product Using Satellite Data and Machine Learning Methods: A Case Study of Thailand pp. 39-85

Nattapong Puttanapong, Nutchapon Prasertsoong and Wichaya Peechapat

Climate-Related Transition Risk and Corporate Debt Financing: Evidence from Southeast Asia pp. 87-110

Gemma Estrada, Resi Ong Olivares, Donghyun Park and Shu Tian

The People’s Republic of China’s 40-Year Demographic Dividend and Labor Supply: The Quantity Myth pp. 111-144

Xin Meng

Trust as Key to Health Sector Reforms pp. 145-176

Vani S. Kulkarni, Veena S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha

Which Way to Go Now? Financing Economic Growth in the Sustainable Development Era pp. 177-209

Sudip Ranjan Basu and Monica Das

Impacts of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Consumption: Household Data from India pp. 211-240

Anirban Sanyal, Nirvikar Singh and Rolly Kapoor

Could Better Jobs for Men Have Improved Gender Equality? The Relationship between Economic Growth and Gender Equality in India pp. 241-269

Sujata Balasubramanian

Priorities for Strengthening Key Revenue Sources in Asia pp. 271-303

Sanjeev Gupta and Joao Jalles

Population Aging, Pension Systems, and Economic Growth: Applying an Overlapping Generations Model to the Informal Sector pp. 305-341

Navarat Temsumrit

The Role of Foreign Direct Investment and Trade in Urbanization in Developing Asia: Structural Changes after the Global Financial Crisis pp. 343-362

Madhabendra Sinha and Darius Tirtosuharto

Impact of Rural Credit on Household Welfare: Evidence from a Long-Term Panel in Bangladesh pp. 363-397

Md. Alamgir Hossain, Mohammad Malek and Zhengfei Yu

The Effects of Digitalization, Energy Intensity, and the Demographic Dividend on Viet Nam’s Economic Sustainability Goals pp. 399-425

Ngo Thai Hung

Volume 40, issue 01, 2023

ADB Distinguished Speaker Lecture — The Economics of Investing in COVID-19 Vaccines: Implications for the Asian Development Bank pp. 1-12

Michael Kremer

The Finance–Growth Nexus in Asia: A Meta-Analytic Approach pp. 13-48

Amar Anwar and Ichiro Iwasaki

Impact of Population Aging on Asia’s Future Economic Growth, 2021–2050 pp. 49-78

Donghyun Park and Kwanho Shin

Home-Based Work Decisions among Bangladeshi Women pp. 79-111

T M Tonmoy Islam and Aphichoke Kotikula

Can Money Buy Happiness? Income and Multidimensional Life Satisfaction in Brunei Darussalam pp. 113-150

Ly Slesman, Chang-Yau Hoon, Evi Nurvidya Arifin, Noor Azam Haji-Othman and Abby Tan

Formal Registration and Informal Firms in Cambodia pp. 151-176

Kiyoyasu Tanaka

Spatial Heterogeneity in the Severity of COVID-19 Pandemic in India pp. 177-201

Nidhi Kaicker, Raghav Gaiha and Radhika Aggarwal

The Structural Transformation of Thailand: The Role of Policy Distortion pp. 203-245

Navarat Temsumrit and Hongsilp Sriket

Income Shocks, Borrowing Constraints, and Household Child Schooling: Evidence from Rural Thailand pp. 247-275

Sasiwooth Wongmonta

Volume 39, issue 02, 2022

The Employment Effects of Technology, Trade, and Consumption in Global Value Chains: Evidence for Developing Asia pp. 1-44

Donald Jay Bertulfo, Elisabetta Gentile and Gaaitzen de Vries

Nexus of Technology Adoption, E-commerce, and Global Value Chains: The Case of Asia pp. 45-73

Jong Woo Kang and Dorothea M. Ramizo

Overland and Oversea: Domestic Trade Frictions in the Philippines pp. 75-118

Eugenia Go

Information and Decision-Making Power: Explicating the Impact of Information Provision in the Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Food Consumption Share in the Philippines pp. 119-146

Nobuyuki Nakamura and Aya Suzuki

Remittances, Household Welfare, and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Tajikistan pp. 147-174

Eiji Yamada, Satoshi Shimizutani and Enerelt Murakami

Behavior of Private Retailers in a Regulated Input Market: An Empirical Analysis of the Fertilizer Subsidy Policy in Nepal pp. 175-199

Shriniwas Gautam, Dyutiman Choudhary and Dil Rahut

Technical Efficiency in Production of Major Food Grains in Punjab, Pakistan pp. 201-222

Abdul Salam and Abdul Hameed

Bank Credit Growth and Trust: Does Institutional Quality Matter? Evidence from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations pp. 223-259

Mohamed Albaity, Ray Saadaoui Mallek, Abu Hanifa Md. Noman and Hussein A. Hassan Al-Tamimi

Volume 39, issue 01, 2022

Mini Symposium on Demographic Change and Human Capital in Asia pp. 1-3

Isaac Ehrlich

A Cross-Country Comparison of Old-Age Financial Readiness in Asian Countries versus the United States: The Case of Japan and the Republic of Korea pp. 5-49

Isaac Ehrlich and Yong Yin

Educational Gradients in Disability among Asia’s Future Elderly: Projections for the Republic of Korea and Singapore pp. 51-89

Cynthia Chen, Jue Tao Lim, Ngee Choon Chia, Daejung Kim, Haemi Park, Lijia Wang, Bryan Tysinger, Michelle Zhao, Alex R. Cook, Ming Zhe Chong, Jian-Min Yuan, Stefan Ma, Kelvin Bryan Tan, Tze Pin Ng, Woon-Puay Koh, Joanne Yoong, Jay Bhattacharya and Karen Eggleston

Cognitive Functioning among Older Adults in Japan and Other Selected Asian Countries: In Search of a Better Way to Remeasure Population Aging pp. 91-130

Naohiro Ogawa, Taiyo Fukai, Norma Mansor and Nurul Diyana Kamarulzaman

Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Old-Age Economic Security: Asia and the World pp. 131-167

Andrew Mason, Sang-Hyop Lee and Donghyun Park

Trends in Employment and Wages of Female and Male Workers in India: A Task-Content-of-Occupations Approach pp. 169-199

Shruti Sharma

Disability and Intrahousehold Investment Decisions in Education: Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 201-238

Kamal Lamichhane and Takaki Takeda

The Social Costs of Success: The Impact of World Trade Organization Rules on Insulin Prices in Bangladesh upon Graduation from Least Developed Country Status pp. 239-279

Md. Deen Islam, Warren A. Kaplan, Veronika J. Wirtz and Kevin P. Gallagher

Institutions and the Rate of Return on Cattle: Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 281-313

Kazi Iqbal, Kazi Ali Toufique and Md Wahid Ferdous Ibon

Impacts of Fuel Subsidy Rationalization on Sectoral Output and Employment in Malaysia pp. 315-348

Noorasiah Sulaiman, Mukaramah Harun and Arief Yusuf