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177: Tariff Liberalization and Trade Specialization in India

Michele Alessandrini, Bassam Fattouh, Benno Ferrarini and Pasquale Scaramozzino

176: Productivity Growth in Different Firm Sizes in the Malaysian Manufacturing Sector: An Empirical Investigation

Sangho Kim, Donghyun Park and Jong-Ho Park

175: The People’s Republic of China as an Engine of Growth for Developing Asia? Evidence from Vector Autoregression Models

Donghyun Park and Kwanho Shin

174: How Has Asia Fared in the Global Crisis? A Tale of Three Countries: Republic of Korea, Philippines, and Thailand

Hyun H. Son and Emmanuel A. San Andres

173: Financial Sector Development, Economic Growth, and Poverty Reduction: A Literature Review

Juzhong Zhuang, Herath Gunatilake, Yoko Niimi, Muhammad Ehsan Khan, Yi Jiang, Rana Hasan, Niny Khor, Anneli S. Lagman-Martin, Pamela Bracey and Biao Huang

172: Can Trade with the People’s Republic of China be an Engine of Growth for Developing Asia?

Donghyun Park and Kwanho Shin

171: Equity in Health and Health Care in the Philippines

Hyun Son

170: Are Developing Asia’s Foreign Exchange Reserves Excessive? An Empirical Examination

Donghyun Park and Gemma Estrada

169: Developing Asia's Sovereign Wealth Funds and Outward Foreign Direct Investment

Donghyun Park and Gemma Estrada

168: Fiscal Decentralization, Fiscal Incentives, and Pro-Poor Outcomes: Evidence from Viet Nam

Liv Bjornestad

167: Public Goods Access and Juvenile Sex Ratios in Rural India: Evidence from the 1991 and 2001 Village Census Data

Anil B. Deolalikar, Rana Hasan and Rohini Somanathan

166: Determinants of Structural Changes of Food Exports from Developing Countries

Juthathip Jongwanich and Nedelyn Magtibay-Ramos

165: Ageing Asia’s Looming Pension Crisis

Donghyun Park

164: The Impact of Exchange Rate on FDI and the Interdependence of FDI over Time

Joseph Alba, Donghyun Park and Peiming Wang

163: The Optimal Structure of Technology Adoption and Creation: Basic Research vs. Development in the Presence of Distance to Frontier

Joonkyung Ha, Yong Jin Kim and Jong-Wha Lee

162: Saving in Asia: Issues for Rebalancing Growth

Shikha Jha, Eswar Prasad and Akiko Hagiwara

161: Trade Structure and the Transmission of Economic Distress in the High-Income OECD Countries to Developing Asia

Juthathip Jongwanich, William E. James, Peter J. Minor and Alexander Greenbaum

160: Is Pakistan’s Growth Rate Balance-of-Payments Constrained? Policies and Implications for Development and Growth

Jesus Felipe, John McCombie and Kaukab Naqvi

159: A Cross-Country Analysis of Achievements and Inequities in Economic Growth and Standards of Living

Hyun Son

158: Saving, Investment, and Current Account Surplus in Developing Asia

Donghyun Park and Kwanho Shin

157: Causes and Consequences of Global Imbalances: Perspective from Developing Asia

Charles Adams and Donghyun Park

156: Informal Employment in Indonesia

Sining Cuevas, Christian Mina, Marissa Barcenas and Aleli Rosario

155: Informal Employment in Bangladesh

Dalisay S. Maligalig, Sining Cuevas and Aleli Rosario

154: Impact of Food Safety Standards on Processed Food Exports from Developing Countries

Juthathip Jongwanich

153: Poverty Impact of the Economic Slowdown in Developing Asia: Some Scenarios

Rana Hasan, Maria Rhoda Magsombol and Jewelwayne Cain

152: Crises in Asia: Historical Perspectives and Implications

Kiseok Hong, Jong-Wha Lee and Hsiao Chink Tang

151: Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate, Misalignment, and Export Performance in Developing Asia

Juthathip Jongwanich

150: Macroeconomic Uncertainties, Oil Subsidies, and Fiscal Sustainability in Asia

Shikha Jha, Pilipinas Quising and Shiela Camingue

149: Technological Change, Human Capital Structure, and Multiple Growth Paths

Yong Jin Kim and Jong-Wha Lee

148: Quality of Jobs in the Philippines: Comparing Self-Employment with Wage Employment

Rana Hasan and Karl Robert L. Jandoc

147: Corporate Governance and Merger and Acquisition Foreign Direct Investment: Firm-level Evidence from Japanese Foreign Direct Investment into the US

Joseph Alba, Donghyun Park and Peiming Wang

146: Housing Prices and the Role of Speculation: The Case of Seoul

Donghyun Park and Qin Xiao

145: Measuring Income Mobility, Income Inequality, and Social Welfare for Households of the People’s Republic of China

Niny Khor and John Pencavel

144: Have Antidumping Measures of EU and NAFTA Members against East Asian Countries Provoked Retaliatory Responses?

William E. James

143: Integration of Consumer Price Indices and the International Comparison Program for the Asia and Pacific Region: How can They be Achieved?

Michael Ward, Chellam Palanyandy and Eileen Capilit

142: Ex-ante Impact Evaluation of Conditional Cash Transfer Program on School Attendance and Poverty: The Case of the Philippines

Hyun Son and Jhiedon Florentino

141: Environmental Kuznets Curves in the People’s Republic of China: Turning Points and Regional Differences

Yi Jiang, Tun Lin and Juzhong Zhuang

140: Export Performance, Foreign Ownership, and Trade Policy Regime: Evidence from Thai Manufacturing

Juthathip Jongwanich and Archanun Kohpaiboon

139: The US Financial Crisis, Global Financial Turmoil, and Developing Asia: Is the Era of High Growth at an End?

William James, Donghyun Park, Shikha Jha, Juthathip Jongwanich, Akiko Terada-Hagiwara and Lea Sumulong

138: Effectiveness of Public Spending: The Case of Rice Subsidies in the Philippines

Shikha Jha and Aashish Mehta

137: Asian Holdings of US Treasury Securities: Trade Integration as a Threshold

Akiko Terada-Hagiwara

136: An Analysis of Pakistan's Macroeconomic Situation and Prospects

Jesus Felipe and Joseph Lim

135: Gender Differences in Remittance Behavior: Evidence from Viet Nam

Yoko Niimi and Barry Reilly

134: Foreign Direct Investment, Innovation, and Exports: Firm-Level Evidence from People's Republic of China, Thailand, and Philippines

Ganeshan Wignaraja

133: Asian Migration Prospects: 2007-2012

Terrie L. Walmsley and S. Amer Ahmed

132: Rethinking the Growth Diagnostics Approach: Questions from the Practitioners

Jesus Felipe and Norio Usui

131: Economics of Energy Conservation: A Case Study

Herath Gunatilake and Dhammika Padmakanthi

130: Prospects of an ASEAN–People’s Republic of China Free Trade Area: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis

Donghyun Park, Innwon Park and Gemma Esther Estrada

129: Capital Outflows, Sovereign Wealth Funds, and Domestic Financial Instability in Developing Asia

Donghyun Park

128: Causes of High Food Prices

C. Peter Timmer