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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 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

127: Effects of Hub-and-Spoke Free Trade Agreements on Trade: Panel Data Analysis

Joseph Alba, Jung Hur and Donghyun Park

126: Remittances and the Brain Drain: Skilled Migrants Do Remit Less!

Yoko Niimi, Çağlar Özden and Maurice Schiff

125: Extra-EU Imports of Clothing and EU Preferential Trade Policies in the Post-Quota Era: The Position of Asian Suppliers in the Largest World Market for Clothing Imports

William James and Juan Paolo Hernando

124: Market-Based Approaches for Managing the Asian Environment: A Review

Herath Gunatilake and Franklin de Guzman

123: Dealing with the Proliferation of Bilateral Trade Agreements: Consolidation, Multilateralization, Harmonization, or Dilution?

Jayant Menon

122: Globalization, Erosion of Tax Base, and the Revenue Potential of Developing Asia’s Foreign Exchange Reserve Build-Up

Donghyun Park

121: Inflation in Developing Asia: Demand-Pull or Cost-Push?

Juthathip Jongwanich and Donghyun Park

120: Explaining Growth and Inequality in Factor Income: The Philippines Case

Hyun Son

119: What Constrains Indian Manufacturing?

Poonam Gupta, Rana Hasan and Utsav Kumar

118: The Growth Penalty of High Government Pay Rates

Craig Sugden and Kiyoshi Taniguchi

117: Accounting for Inequality in India: Evidence from Household Expenditures

J. Salcedo Cain, Rana Hasan, Rhoda Magsombol and Ajay Tandon

116: Productivity and Employment in a Developing Country: Evidence from Republic of Korea

Sangho Kim, Hyunjoon Lim and Donghyun Park

115: Privatization Revisited: Lessons from Private Sector Participation in Water Supply and Sanitation in Developing Countries

Herath Gunatilake and Mary Jane Carangal-San Jose

114: Price Dynamics in the US Market for Apparel Imports: Impact of Quota Elimination under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing and Safeguard Restrictions on the People's Republic of China

William James and Juan Paolo Hernando

113: Do Minimum Wages Reduce Employment and Training?

Guntur Sugiyarto and Benjamin Endriga

112: Has Inflation Hurt the Poor? Regional Analysis in the Philippines

Hyun Son

111: Asian Textile and Apparel Trade: Moving forward with Regional Integration

William James

110: A Note on Competitiveness and Structural Transformation in Pakistan

Jesus Felipe

109: Beyond Liquidity: New Uses for Developing Asia's Foreign Exchange Reserves

Donghyun Park

108: Occupational Segregation and Gender Discrimination in Labor Markets: Thailand and Viet Nam

Hyun Son

107: Sectoral Engines of Growth in Developing Asia: Stylized Facts and Implications

Jesus Felipe, Miguel Leon-Ledesma, Matteo Lanzafame and Gemma Estrada

106: Determinants of Export Performance in East and Southeast Asia

Juthathip Jongwanich