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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

105: Efficient Technology and the Conservation of Natural Forests: Evidence from Sri Lanka

Herath Gunatilake

104: An Empirical Analysis of East Asia's Pre-crisis Daily Exchange Rates

Joseph Dennis Alba and Donghyun Park

103: Could Imports be Beneficial for Economic Growth? Some Evidence from Republic of Korea

Sangho Kim, Hyunjoon Lim and Donghyun Park

102: Incidence, Intensity, and Correlates of Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health Payments in India

Sekhar Bonu, Indu Bhushan and David Peters

101: Benchmarking Developing Asia’s Manufacturing Sector

Jesus Felipe and Gemma Estrada

100: Time Preference and Natural Resource Use by Local Communities: The Case of Sinharaja Forest in Sri Lanka

Herath Gunatilake, W. A. R. Wickramasinghe and Piyasena Abeygunawardena

99: Flood Insurance as a Flood Management Tool: An Economic Perspective

Tun Lin, Franklin de Guzman and Maria Cita Cuevas

98: Defining and Measuring Inclusive Growth: Application to the Philippines

Ifzal Ali and Hyun Son

97: Inclusive Growth toward a Prosperous Asia: Policy Implications

Ifzal Ali and Juzhong Zhuang

96: Interrelationship between Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: The Asian Experience

Hyun Son

95: Can East Asia Weather a US Slowdown?

Cyn-Young Park

94: Theory and Practice in the Choice of Social Discount Rate for Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Survey

Juzhong Zhuang, Zhihong Liang, Tun Lin and Franklin de Guzman

93: An Analysis of the Philippine Business Process Outsourcing Industry

Nedelyn Magtibay-Ramos, Gemma Estrada and Jesus Felipe

92: Measuring Underemployment: Establishing the Cut-off Point

Guntur Sugiyarto

91: Infrastructure as a Catalyst for Regional Integration, Growth, and Economic Convergence: Scenario Analysis for Asia

David Roland-Holst

90: Asia's Imprint on Global Commodity Markets

Cyn-Young Park and Fan Zhai

89: Rules of Origin: Conceptual Explorations and Lessons from the Generalized System of Preferences

Teruo Ujiie

88: Income Volatility and Social Protection in Developing Asia

Vandana Sipahimalani-Rao

87: Expanding Access to Basic Services in Asia and the Pacific Region: Public-Private Partnerships for Poverty Reduction

Adrian Panggabean

86: Economic Growth, Technological Change, and Patterns of Food and Agricultural Trade in Asia

Thomas Hertel, Carlos E. Ludena and Alla Golub

85: Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Policies: Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh, People's Republic of China, Indonesia, and Philippines

Geoffrey Ducanes, Marie Anne Cagas, Duo Qin, Pilipinas Quising and Mohammad Razzaque

84: Income Disparity and Economic Growth: Evidence from People's Republic of China

Duo Qin, Marie Anne Cagas, Geoffrey Ducanes, Xinhua He, Rui Liu and Shiguo Liu

83: Preferential Trade Agreements in Asia: Alternative Scenarios of "Hub and Spoke"

Fan Zhai

82: Institutions and Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction: The Role of Private Sector Development

Rana Hasan, Devashish Mitra and Mehmet Ulubasoglu

81: A Small Macroeconometric Model of the People's Republic of China

Duo Qin, Marie Anne Cagas, Geoffrey Ducanes, Nedelyn Magtibay-Ramos, Pilipinas Quising, Xinhua He, Rui Liu and Shiguo Liu

80: Central Asia's Economy: Mapping Future Prospects to 2015

J. Malcolm Dowling and Ganeshan Wignaraja

79: An Assessment of Cross-Country Fiscal Consolidation

Bruno Carrasco and Seung Mo Choi

78: Trade Facilitation

Teruo Ujiie

77: Dynamics of Manufacturing Competitiveness in South Asia: Analysis through Export Data

Hans-Peter Brunner and Massimiliano Calì

76: Policy Reform in Indonesia and the Asian Development Bank's Financial Sector Governance Reforms Program Loan

George Abonyi

75: Macroeconomic Impact of HIV/AIDS in the Asian and Pacific Region

Ajay Tandon

74: Growth and Trade Horizons for Asia: Long-Term Forecasts for Regional Integration

David Roland-Holst, Jean-Pierre A. Verbiest and Fan Zhai

73: Impacts of the Doha Development Agenda on People's Republic of China: The Role of Complementary Education Reforms

Fan Zhai and Thomas Hertel

72: Can the Poor Benefit from the Doha Agenda? The Case of Indonesia

Douglas H. Brooks and Guntur Sugiyarto

71: Policy Reform in Thailand and the Asian Development Bank's Agricultural Sector Program Loan

George Abonyi

70: Policy Reform in Viet Nam and the Asian Development Bank's State-Owned Enterprise Reform and Corporate Governance Program Loan

George Abonyi

69: Export or Domestic-Led Growth in Asia?

Jesus Felipe and Joseph Lim

68: Local Currency Financing - The Next Frontier for MDBs?

Tobias C. Hoschka

67: Banks and Corporate Debt Market Development

Paul Dickie and Emma Xiaoqin Fan

66: Measuring Efficiency of Macro Systems: An Application to Millennium Development Goal Attainment

Ajay Tandon

65: Poverty and Foreign Aid Evidence from Recent Cross-Country Data

Abuzar Asra, Gemma Esther B. Estrada, Yangseon Kim and M.G. Quibria

64: Empirical Assessment of Sustainability and Feasibility of Government Debt: The Philippines Case

Duo Qin, Marie Anne Cagas, Geoffrey Ducanes, Nedelyn Magtibay-Ramos and Pilipinas Quising