Opening up India's market to neighbouring countries can be as strategic as access denial to others. The game should be played both ways, even if it upsets domestic business lobbies.
by T.N. Ninan | On 16 Aug 2020 Shadow States is a truly important work—well written and based on solid research—thatoffers a novel and necessary perspective from which to view the Sino-Indian border dispute in their shared Himalaya...
by Mahesh Shankar | On 01 Aug 2020 It's all good to be tactical - keep China out of strategic markets; hit back in the same coin if it looks to keep India's key sectors out - but don't shoot yourself in the foot.
by T.N. Ninan | On 21 Jun 2020 The present study used surely research methods to gauge the extent of knowledge regarding the SARS-CoV-2virus and the disease it causes, COVID19, among a section of the Indian population. Some 3500 pe...
by Gauhar Raza | On 16 Jun 2020 Territorial colonialism may have ended long ago but this contemporary global health crisis can serve as a reminder that the colonisation of medicine, economics, and of politics, remains alive.
by | On 07 May 2020 This paper analyzes the conduct and effects of macroprudential policy in 11 Asian economies. Of these, India, the People’s Republic of China, and the Republic of Korea frequently used loan-to-value ra...
by Soyoung Kim | On 23 Apr 2019 This paper identifies five factors that can capture 95% of the variance across 39 US dollar exchange rates based on the principal component method. A time-varying parameter factor-augmented vector aut...
by Hongyi Chen | On 01 Apr 2019 This paper empirically examines the “defensive innovation” hypothesis that firms with higher exposure to low-wage economy import competition intensively undertake more innovative activity by using a h...
by Nobuaki Yamashita | On 01 Apr 2019 The goal of the note is to lay out and discuss a package of reforms that could be consistent with the objectives of the government. The fiscal instruments that we consider here include the division of...
by Roy Bahl | On 07 Mar 2019 Reverse mortgages provide an alternative source of retirement funding by allowing older homeowners to borrow against their home. However, a recent pilot program of reserve mortgage products in several...
by Katja Hanewald | On 03 Feb 2019 This paper analyzes the conditions under which an existing bilateral free trade area (FTA) prefers to expand in size and when it prefers consolidation through customs union (CU) formation when the exi...
by Sunandan Ghosh | On 31 Jan 2019 This paper describes and evaluates the range of P2P lending systems on offer to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in several countries, considering different regulatory regimes. In some countr...
by Naoko Nemoto | On 07 Jan 2019 This paper analyzes the effects of the current trade conflict on developing Asia using the Asian Development Bank’s Multiregional Input–Output Table (MRIOT), allowing us to calculate the impact on ind...
by Abdul Abiad | On 21 Dec 2018 This brief report documents facts of financial innovation in Asia and the Pacific that include: • Fintech redefines a specific sector at the intersection of financial services and technology sectors....
by Asian Bank | On 09 Oct 2018 Aging can be harmful to an economy over the long run, as an increase in the share of the elderly population reduces both the labor force and output per adult, and increases the social security burden....
by Hiroko Uchimura-Shiroshi | On 10 Sep 2018 The recent rise of dockless bike-sharing is dominated by two platforms: one started first in 82 Chinese cities, 59 of which were subsequently entered by the second platform. Using these variations, th...
by Guangyu Cao | On 01 Sep 2018 The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) remarkable growth performance over the last 3 decades has been associated to very robust export growth, so much so that many refer to it as a clear example of ex...
by Jesus Felipe | On 29 Aug 2018 The study aims to assess the sustainable livelihood program (SLP) implementation processes based on recent policy enhancements and indicators of program success. The analysis is based on focus group d...
by Marife M. Ballesteros | On 05 Jul 2018 Pakistan-China relations date back to the Silk Route, but the formal ties began in 1950. Pakistan was the first Muslim country to recognize China as People's Republic and Pakistan International Airlin...
by Mahmood A. Khwaja | On 28 Jun 2018 This paper reviews the methods that investigate the hydrology of springs, with a focus on the Himalayan region. The methods are classified as field-based empirical and desk-based analytical. Field-bas...
by Pennan Chinnasamy | On 27 Jun 2018 This paper evaluates the parental response to non-cognitive variation across siblings in rural Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; the non-cognitive measures of i...
by Jessica Leight | On 26 Jun 2018 India has experienced a remarkable proliferation of 48 Government Funded Health Insurance Schemes (GFHIS) from 1997 to 2018. The paper places the rise of this policy pathway in historical perspective....
by Ila Patnaik | On 15 Jun 2018 This paper provides knowledge the first analysis of the morbidity cost of PM2.5 for the entire population of a developing country. To address potential endogeneity in pollution exposure, it constructs...
by Panle Jia Barwick | On 12 Jun 2018 The provision of affordable health care is generally considered a fundamental goal of a wel-
fare state. In addition to its role in maintaining and improving the health status of individuals
and hou...
by | On 31 May 2018 At the moment, there are few industries in the world as fast changing as the solar energy industry.
The interest and use of solar energy is as old as mankind. However, the modern solar...
by | On 19 Apr 2018 Despite the resultant disutility, some people, in particular, the poor, are engaged in
behaviors that carry social stigma. Empirical studies on stigmatized behavior are rare,
largely due to the form...
by Xi Chen | On 12 Apr 2018 This paper analyses the way households in rural China use rural-urban migration and
off-farm work as a response to negative productivity shocks in agriculture. I employ
various waves of a longitudin...
by Luigi Minale | On 04 Apr 2018 The report says that the education scene in Pakistan, during the past four decades, has been characterized by substantial quantitative expansion at all levels.
by Khwaja Sarmad | On 28 Mar 2018 At the moment, there are few industries in the world as fast changing as the solar energy industry.
The interest and use of solar energy is as old as mankind. However, the modern solar industry truly...
by Françoise Pardos | On 26 Mar 2018 The paper says that poverty alleviation is the most persistent challenge facing Pakistan since its inception.
by Rashida Haq | On 21 Mar 2018 The importance of (early) parental investments in children’s cognitive and noncognitive outcomes is a
question of deep policy significance. However, because parental investments are arguably endogeno...
by Chih Ming Tan | On 16 Mar 2018 Macroeconomic models often invoke consumption “habits” to explain the substantial persistence of aggregate consumption growth. But a large literature has found no evidence of habits in microeconomic d...
by Christopher D. Carroll | On 05 Mar 2018 The paper develops a trade model in which productivity—the result of a country’s ability to adopt global technologies—presents an arbitrary pattern of spatial correlation. The model generates the full...
by Nelson Lind | On 05 Mar 2018 This paper presents the business cycle chronology for the Indian economy. Two distinct phases are analysed. The pre-1991 period when the cycles were mainly driven by monsoon shocks. The post 1991 phas...
by Radhika Pandey | On 03 Mar 2018 The advent of Globalization has led to profound transformation in the global economy in terms
of policy paradigms, growth trajectories and developmental strategies of governance, in the
advanced eco...
by | On 26 Feb 2018 The paper presents a variety of indicators to show that demand constrained output during the period of growth slowdown 2011-17. It also draws on research to show the macroeconomic structure of the eco...
by Ashima Goyal | On 22 Feb 2018 Prime Minister Narendra Modi seemed aware about the nuances that underpin India's cultural and political obligations in Asia. By making Bhutan as his first visit abroad followed by a visit to Nepal, h...
by | On 20 Feb 2018 The paper says that perpetrators of sexual violence escape justice, while their victims are trapped between exhortations by women's advocacy groups not to ‘suffer quietly' and the social stigma attach...
by Dolly Kikon | On 20 Feb 2018 This paper is a critique of this experiment to draw lessons for the other Indian states (which still lag way behind Kerala) and for Kerala State itself to put decentralization and democratic practices...
by M.A. Oommen | On 16 Feb 2018 The paper ends with a discussion of the implications of possible shift in China's overseas development finance strategy since 2011.
by Oh Ah | On 31 Jan 2018 This chapter draws on cross-country experience
to study the pattern of investment and saving slowdowns as well as recoveries in order to obtain
policy lessons for India. One finding is that investme...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2018 ‘Lived place’ refers to the subject perception of place. It is concrete and based on experience. For the tribal communities staying or camping in the forest, it is their ‘lived place’ about which they...
by | On 12 Jan 2018 Review of
A Frayed History: The Journey of Cotton in India by Meena Menon and Uzramma.
Oxford University Press, 2018.
USD 685.50.
by | On 07 Jan 2018 The overall goal of this paper is to review and document the likely impacts of climate change on China’s agricultural production, efforts that China might be able to make in reducing greenhouses gas e...
by Jinxia Wang | On 21 Dec 2017 This study constructs a new dependency ratio measure by taking into account the consumption needs of the young and elderly people, and the productivity of middle-aged people. Different from the way th...
by Xuehui Han | On 21 Dec 2017 Urban road infrastructure is crucial in determining air pollution. Yet, little is known about the roles played by road width vs. road length. This paper attempts to fill this gap by estimating the eff...
by Zhi Luo | On 18 Dec 2017 Fifty-five years after China and India fought a war over an ill-defined “colonial” border in 1962, war clouds have gathered again during this monsoon season on the contested Himalayan ridges and valle...
by Anirudh Deshpande | On 14 Dec 2017 As young historians promptly discover on their own, the term "world history," as is its counterpart, "global history," is the most current trend in the study of history.
by Orel Beilinson | On 14 Dec 2017 This study examines the emerging peri-urbanization in the Punjab (Pakistan) in the context of Lahore.
by Qasim Shah | On 30 Nov 2017 The study says that the pharmaceutical sector is crucial to health issues in developing economies and would be an ideal segment to focus on in improving trade relations between the two countries.
by Manoj Pant | On 29 Nov 2017 This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor in...
by Peng Zhang | On 28 Nov 2017 Most empirical studies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) use cross-sectional data or case studies, making causality hard to establish. The paper overcomes this limitation by using panel data on...
by Shuangqi Wu | On 23 Nov 2017 Developing countries have seen a rapid rise in population urbanization in the past decades. At the same time, they have participated actively in the process of globalization. However, possible interli...
by | On 20 Nov 2017 This paper discusses the properties of time series data, compares common data analysis methods and presents a methodological framework for time series data analysis
by Dr. Min Shrestha | On 09 Oct 2017 We decompose India’s export performance in manufactured products during 2000-2015 into changes at the intensive and extensive margins. India’s performance, along different margins, is compared and con...
by Veeramani C | On 06 Oct 2017 This paper, however, demonstrates
that the effective history of thinking about political representation in the
form of reservations for women is as old as the women’s movement itself.
Feminist enga...
by Mary E. John | On 28 Sep 2017 Urban expansion in India over the last few decades has placed cities in a challenging situation with limited infrastructure facilities affecting the quality of life of people who live in low income se...
by Manasi S | On 13 Sep 2017 Situating the 1857 Indian uprising within an imperial context, Jill C. Bender traces its ramifications across the four different colonial sites of Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, and southern Africa. B...
by Elizabeth Baker | On 11 Sep 2017 As this paper has observed that the macro fundamentals were indeed pointing to this slowdown, notwithstanding the smart recovery in two years of 2009-2011, immediately after the global economic meltdo...
by S Jagadeesan | On 25 Aug 2017 This paper takes stock. It assesses the current market state and structure, surveys a cross-section of market participants to identify the relevant issues, and employs two case studies of EME peers, C...
by Renu Kohli | On 23 Aug 2017 BRICS is a hot topic today. It is the new “kid” or the next big thing in global governance and in macro economics today. Set up in 2009, in the aftermath of 2008 global financial crisis with four coun...
by Shubha Chacko | On 22 Aug 2017 By way of this contact, communities have re-constituted their relation with the forest, their identity and relations with others.
by M. Suresh | On 22 Aug 2017 The Monsoon Session of Parliament concluded on August 11, 2017. The session had 19 sittings. During the session, a
new President of India was elected, as was the Vice-President, who is Chairman of Ra...
by Kusum Malik | On 16 Aug 2017 Debashis Chakraborty visited Siliguri for the first time in 1952. After the final examinations of Class IV, this was his first trip to Siliguri to visit the part of his family that had relocated to th...
by Atig Ghosh | On 04 Aug 2017 Low carbon development has gained policy prominence and is a concern of both environment and development policy globally and in China
and India. This paper discusses the role of China and India as im...
by Shailly Kedia | On 03 Aug 2017 The world is becoming increasingly urbanized. Globally 54 percent population lives in urban areas today (UN 2014). Although Asia is still relatively more rural than the Americas and the Europe, it is...
by Tanuka Endow | On 02 Aug 2017 RCEP member countries cover half the world population, 30 per
cent of world GDP and a quarter of world trade. The regional grouping has
several countries including China whose economies are among th...
by V Seshadri | On 31 Jul 2017 This study attempts to evaluate the effects of on-farm soil conservation practices on farm profit and its components, revenue, and variable cost. Since farmers self-select themselves as adopters of a...
by Chandan Singha | On 27 Jul 2017 The Monsoon Session of Parliament is to be held between July 17 and August 11, 2017. There will be a total of 19 sittings. The agenda for legislation includes 18 Bills for consideration and passing. 1...
by Kusum Malik | On 17 Jul 2017 The report is an annual review of Asia’s regional economic cooperation and integration. It covers the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank. This issue includes Special Chapter: How Can Sp...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 Jun 2017 The report says that the global economic environment also affects the region’s bond yields, emphasizing the importance of domestic macroeconomic stability and bond market resilience in the face of glo...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 06 Jun 2017 This Update retains the projections previously published in Asian Development Outlook 2016 (ADO 2016) in March. Gross domestic product (GDP) in the region is expected to grow at 5.7% in 2016 and 2017,...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 16 May 2017 This new ILO Global Wage Report – the fifth in a series that now spans over a decade – contributes to this agenda by making comparative data and information on recent wage trends available to governme...
by International Labour Organization [ILO] | On 14 Apr 2017 Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market participation and wages. More recently, increasing attention has turned to the role of perso...
by | On 16 Mar 2017 We provide evidence that promotion incentives influence the effort of public employees by studying China’s system of promotions for teachers. Predictions from a tournament model of promotion are teste...
by | On 06 Mar 2017 The book is an important exploration of
late colonial preoccupations with the brothel, a "scandalous" space
fueling the archival accretions that sustain contemporary historical
inquiry.
2015; xi...
by Tara Suri | On 23 Feb 2017 Between 1966 and 1976, China experienced a Cultural Revolution (CR). During this period, the education of around 17 birth cohorts was interrupted by between 1 and 8 years. In this paper we examine whe...
by | On 09 Feb 2017 This year has been marked by several historic economic policy developments. On
the domestic side, a constitutional amendment paved the way for the long-awaited and transformational goods and services...
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2017 This paper examines the impacts of social pension provision among people of different ages. Utilizing the county-by-county rollout of the New Rural Pension Scheme in rural China, we find that, among t...
by | On 10 Jan 2017 Air pollution has been one of the most pernicious consequences of China’s last three decades of economic transformation and growth. Although Chinese governments—federal, provincial, and municipal—have...
by | On 23 Dec 2016 India is passing through the demographic transition and we hardly have 50 to 60 years more to utilise the demographic dividend. By mid of this century, India will have a huge population of 60 and old...
by Priya Sharma | On 23 Dec 2016 A health system should be responsive, resilient, self-regulating. It should be able to respond to health emergencies and changing development scenarios. Governments all over the world should see to it...
by Rajeev B.R. | On 14 Dec 2016 Drawing attention to a high dropout rate in upper primary schools, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam today said schools are facing the “biggest crisis” in India.
Delivering the f...
by Tharman Shanmugaratnam | On 08 Dec 2016 The increasing number of migrants moving to cities, especially from rural areas, has posed a new set of issues for the authorities. In the mid-1990s, it was estimated that China had a floating populat...
by | On 22 Nov 2016 This article focuses on Chinese female rural migrant workers. Based on the survey data collected in Anhui and Sichuan provinces of China, the article investigates gender aspects of Chinese rural-urban...
by | On 22 Nov 2016 This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment the U.S. Granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China after China’s accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether t...
by Liqiu Zhao | On 03 Nov 2016 The Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about
population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that
information to advance the well-being of current and futu...
by | On 21 Oct 2016 Demographic transition due to population aging is an emerging trend throughout the developing world,
and it is especially acute in China, which has undergone demographic transition more rapidly than...
by Xinxin Wang | On 10 Oct 2016 This paper suggests a reinterpretation of global growth—encompassing notions of unconditional convergence and the middle income trap—in the past 50 years through the lens of growth theory. Two modes o...
by Sutirtha Roy | On 10 Oct 2016 It is conventional wisdom in the
economic development literature that there is a significant underinvestment in agricultural R&D in
developing countries. Evidence supporting this belief is provided,...
by Alejandro Nin Pratt | On 30 Sep 2016 This research evaluates the performance of free trade agreements by
analyzing the determinants of trade flows of Asian economies for a panel
of thirty-one countries during 2007-2014 using a Gravity...
by Sunder Ramaswamy | On 29 Sep 2016 In light of the United Nations’ SDGs1 and their global hunger directive, in particular Goal 2 to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition,” it is clear that food security will be a m...
by | On 09 Sep 2016 China’s government is promoting the shift towards a consumption-based economy since a few years. The explicit goal to significantly raise the percentage of wages in the national household income is in...
by | On 31 Aug 2016 Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (referred to as “Ningxia”
below) is one of the most water stressed regions in China. In order to help governments and corporations gain a better understanding of water s...
by Lijin Zhong | On 29 Aug 2016 China and India have successfully integrated into the world economy. Once specialised in textiles, they have developed new export-oriented sectors linked to the information and communication technolog...
by | On 24 Aug 2016 This paper addresses some aspects related to these two important research questions, and thus builds on the base of knowledge. The paper is organized as follows. First, we discuss the economic growth...
by | On 24 Aug 2016 The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide co...
by | On 23 Aug 2016 China’s environmental regulators have sought to reduce the Yangtze River’s water pollution. This paper documents that this regulatory effort has had two unintended consequences. First, the regulation’...
by Zhao Chen | On 18 Aug 2016 The Monsoon Session of Parliament concluded on August 12, 2016. The session had 20 sittings, during which various
Bills were passed, including a Constitutional Amendment Bill enabling the levy of a G...
by Kusum Malik | On 16 Aug 2016 The Ministry of Human Resource Development released a draft National Education Policy in July 2016. In this context,
some data on education indicators such as enrolment of students, drop-out rates, a...
by Roopal Suhag | On 16 Aug 2016 This paper analyses changes in China’s relations with socialist countries. It uses Chinese academic publications to add an inside-out perspective to the interpretation of Chinese foreign policy and ou...
by | On 05 Aug 2016 A further subsidy in the form of credit support was estimated to be between CNY 3.5 and 35.7 billion (USD 0.57 billion and USD 5.8 billion). The major subsidies included tax relief, investment in asse...
by | On 02 Aug 2016 Drawing on data from the 2006 China General Social Survey, propensity score matching was used to investigate the impact of rural-to-urban migration on family and gender values in China at distinct sta...
by | On 25 Jul 2016 Although both infrastructure and innovation play an important role in fostering a country’s economic growth, discussion in the literature about how the two are connected is limited. This paper examine...
by Xu Wang | On 25 Jul 2016 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 14 of the Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Cess Act, 1996 (Act 8 of 1996). China has chosen not to take part in the ar...
by | On 20 Jul 2016 As of July 7, 2016, rainfall in the country in the 2016 monsoon season is estimated to be 1% above normal rainfall. However, due to deficient rainfall in the country resulting in drought conditions ov...
by Tanvi Deshpande | On 18 Jul 2016 China’s rejection of the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling on its expansive claim to the South China Sea has set itself up for confrontation with maritime states in Southeast Asia. It will also he...
by | On 18 Jul 2016 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will meet for the Monsoon Session between July 18 and August 12, 2016. There will be a total of 20 sittings. The agenda for legislation includes nine Bills for consideration...
by Kusum Malik | On 18 Jul 2016 By exploring the role of SEZs in China’s integration with the world economy, we also investigate the underlining challenges faced by the economy. The analysis brings forth the indisputable fact that S...
by | On 14 Jul 2016 This paper analyzes the absence of correlation between China-ASEAN economic interdependence and dispute settlement in the South China Sea, against liberals’ prediction. It argues that there are a few...
by | On 13 Jul 2016 The South China Sea disputes involve the interests of the United States, particularly with regard to freedom of navigation, international norms and law, relations with important partners and allies, a...
by | On 13 Jul 2016 This paper makes use of the most recent social pension reform in rural China to examine whether receipt of the pension payment equips adult children of pensioners to migrate. Employing a regression di...
by Xi Chen | On 11 Jul 2016 Facing scarcity of a production factor, a firm can develop technologies to either substitute the scarce factor
(price effect) or complement the more abundant factors (market size effect). Whether th...
by zhibo Tan | On 06 Jul 2016 In the existing narratives the wider colonial contexts of institutionalization of western science
and medicine and growth of curative medicine, changing patterns
of education and health services for...
by Sujata Mukherjee | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel data for the period 1997-2004, when the country underwent economic reforms leading...
by Janneke Pieters | On 30 Jun 2016 In recent years, China has developed and implemented
a range of policies to address climate change, reduce
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and transition toward
a low-carbon and climate-resilient s...
by Katherine Ross | On 30 Jun 2016 The paper investigates the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in China. Using precise measures of each worker’s daily output linked to dai...
by Tom Chang | On 30 Jun 2016 This paper estimates the monetary value of cutting PM2.5, a dominant source of air pollution in China. By matching hedonic happiness in a nationally representative survey with daily air quality data a...
by Xin Zhang | On 30 Jun 2016 The water crisis already looming large will therefore quite probably trigger significant shortfalls in cereal production and, as a result, a massive global food crisis. But before that the dearth of p...
by | On 24 Jun 2016 The study attempts to measure the total benefits from rice varietal improvement research in China and India using variety adoption and performance data over the last two decades. It then uses informat...
by | On 23 Jun 2016 The goal of this paper is to describe and analyze the relationship between ability tracking and student social capital, in the context of poor students in developing countries. Drawing on the results...
by Fan Li | On 23 Jun 2016 This technical note describes the data and methodology
used to calculate BWS-China, building on the
methodology described in previous Aqueduct publications
(Shiklomanov and Rodda 2014; Gassert et a...
by Jiao Wang | On 20 Jun 2016 This paper argues that contrary to popular belief, in the bygone era, there was not one but two Silk Roads in Asia – the Northern and the less well-known South-western Silk Road (SSR). The SSR connect...
by | On 10 Jun 2016 The chapter tries to identify three dimensions of land rights – the type of ownership, tenants’ rights, and the right to transfer – to categorise the diversity of land tenures in colonial India. Also,...
by Anand Swamy | On 08 Jun 2016 The Global Slavery Index (‘the Index’) provides an estimate of the number of people in modern slavery, the factors that make individuals vulnerable to this crime, and an assessment of government actio...
by | On 01 Jun 2016 China needs Africa’s forests, and Africa knows it. Chinese investments in African forests and woodlands are growing fast. China is the largest importer of tropical timber in the world — possibly accou...
by | On 25 May 2016 This paper focuses on the automobile industry and examines the nature of global value chains in it with reference to the case of India. The aim is to explore the relation between lead firms, particula...
by Saon Ray | On 23 May 2016 This paper aims to sensitize the
stakeholders, concerned organization and citizens towards need and importance of regulating
SEPs as well as facilitating their availability at Fair, Reasonable and N...
by Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion DIPP | On 19 May 2016 This study investigates the economic growth and catch-up of the Republic of Korea over the
past half-century. The gap of output per worker between the Republic of Korea and United
States has decreas...
by Jong-Wha Lee | On 19 May 2016 Using 2000-2009 data, the report finds that, while spending on environmental infrastructure has visible positive environmental impact, city spending is strongly tilted towards transportation infrastru...
by | On 04 May 2016 This study shows how 13 important stock markets in Asia namely, India, Bangladesh, Philippines, China, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Pakistan, South Korea and Thailand...
by | On 02 May 2016 This report is aimed at better informing that debate by demystifying the
global and South Asian apparel markets, estimating the potential gains in exports and jobs (including for women), and identify...
by Gladys Lopez Acevedo | On 29 Apr 2016 A gradual moderation in growth is currently underway in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This is the result of a combination of factors, including a shrinking working-age population, the natural...
by | On 06 Apr 2016 India and Pakistan, the two large countries in South Asia, must work for the region’s collective good rather than moving closer to the United States and China, respectively, and promoting the interest...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 28 Mar 2016 As an important global and regional economic power, the PRC’s growth slowdown may cause large spillover effects to its neighboring economies. Using a multi-sectoral global computable general equilibri...
by Fan Zhai | On 22 Mar 2016 The end of World War II marked the advent of Ethnic disputes in the world. The explicit wars for territory converted into implicit wars for identity and recognition; perhaps, because a part of the pop...
by Kalpana Jha | On 21 Mar 2016 The paper focuses on the constructive role that China can play in enhancing security in South Asia. The potential contribution that China can make to enhancing non-traditional security in the region i...
by Ramandeep Kaur | On 21 Mar 2016 Public finance systems in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have evolved substantially over the last three decades. The evolution is continuing, with wide-ranging reforms in budget and debt managem...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 18 Mar 2016 This report recommends the creation of a National Roads and Funding Administration and a central road trust fund with dedicated revenues; changes to roles and responsibilities of different levels of g...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 17 Mar 2016 The government has taken unprecedented steps to create a basic framework to achieve its long-term objective of improving water quality in Chao Lake and protecting and maintaining all of its economic,...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 15 Mar 2016 In the 1990s, Japan was the world’s top donor. This position was lost in 2001, after a prolonged economic slump, a deteriorating fiscal situation, and increasingly critical public view of ODA made the...
by | On 14 Mar 2016 China is unique among developing countries in achieving sustained economic and social success. So, policymakers in South Asia will do well to factor a robust Chinese economic future into their thinkin...
by Shahid Javed Burki | On 11 Mar 2016 This paper studies the effect of domestic macroeconomic news releases on the change in the bond yields of India, China and Japan. We apply event study method to observe whether the large set of new in...
by Sreejata Banerjee | On 10 Mar 2016 Three major objectives of this study are: (i) to understand China’s success against poverty, particularly the mechanism through which, the economic reforms led to poverty reduction; (ii) to give a his...
by G. M. Arif | On 10 Mar 2016 How does the transfer of advanced technology spur innovation in developing countries? This paper exploits the large-scale introduction of high-speed railway (HSR) technology into China in 2004 as a na...
by Yatang Lin | On 09 Mar 2016 The paper investigates the political aspects of the coorperation between China, South Korea and Japan to address transboundary pollution in Northeast Asia. Investigating the motivations, modalities an...
by Reinhard Drifte | On 09 Mar 2016 This article intends to bring to light the energy security concept in the region, while analyzing how this multilateral cooperative energy scheme can contribute to building a new regional economic sec...
by Se Hyun Ahn | On 09 Mar 2016 While there had been agreements that the current global financial crisis which originated from the United States (US) would not be akin to the Asian Financial Crisis back in 1997- 1998, the resultant...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 06 Mar 2016 Hydroclimate variations since 1300 in central and monsoonal Asia and their interplay on interannual and interdecadal timescales are investigated using the tree-ring based Palmer Drought Severity Index...
by Keyan Fang | On 03 Mar 2016 Several Asian countries have experienced flooding in recent weeks. While the monsoon rains – amplified by the La Nina effect -have been taking place as expected from the second to the third quarter o...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 02 Mar 2016 After three decades of double-digit growth, China is slowing as it is rebalancing its economy from export-driven to less-volatile domestic consumption driven economy. The paper looks at the impact of...
by Geetima Das Krishna | On 02 Mar 2016 This paper analyses the various legal, political, military and economic circumstances of the two territorial disputes in the ECS, and it evaluates the approaches by both sides to turn the ECS from a `...
by Reinhard Drifte | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper joins the growing scholarship on the ontological security needs of states in international relations (IR) literature and explores its relevance to India-China relations. Ontological securit...
by | On 01 Mar 2016 With over a billion people in China, the issue of cultivated land conversion is extremely important both in terms of food security and environmental sustainability. This paper investigates the relatio...
by Shunji Cui | On 01 Mar 2016 Annual food production is enough to feed the 6.9 billion people in the world today. However, access and distribution of food in order that people do not have to die due to hunger continues to remain e...
by Ruth Kattumuri | On 01 Mar 2016 The 1994 Fiscal Reforms in China were spectacularly successful in meeting the immediate challenges that the economy faced at that time—a sharply dropping tax/GDP ratio, and limited ability of the cent...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 01 Mar 2016 This paper studies the evolution of the rural non-farm sector in India and its contribution to the decline of poverty. It scrutinizes evidence from a series of nationally representative sample surveys...
by Himanshu Prof | On 29 Feb 2016 The increasingly worsening state of small farmers in an 'agriculture-predominant' India is most tragic and a matter of grave injustice. This state of affairs is tragic also from the larger perspective...
by Vijay Negi | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper undertakes econometric analysis of innovation, learning, and exporting in automobiles and electronics firms in the PRC using a large-scale dataset to identify the most appropriate innovatio...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 29 Feb 2016 This paper explores the “black box” of innovation in the electronics production network in East Asia through a mapping exercise of technological capabilities and an econometric analysis of exporting i...
by Ganeshan Wignaraja | On 29 Feb 2016 Today, millions of people experience insecurity as a result of new and complex issues threatening human welfare and dignity, such as climate change and the contested or inefficient use of energy and w...
by S. Rajaratnam International Studies | On 27 Feb 2016 Effectance motivation -- a will for certainty and a feeling of being able to know and predict -- was proposed in the 1960s as the mechanism underlying the well-known attitude similarity effects on att...
by Ramadhar Singh | On 27 Feb 2016 Reflecting on the speeches made at the 34th meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) held in Islamabad recently, one could suggest that nothing new was mentione...
by Sofiah Jamil | On 26 Feb 2016 Differences in political ideology might lead to different views about the role of the state in the provision of public services across countries, or even in the same country over time.2 At the same ti...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 26 Feb 2016 This article analyzes the location determinants of foreign direct investment in services, both theoretically and empirically. It hypothesizes four sets of factors as the location determinants of FDI i...
by Feng Yin | On 26 Feb 2016 The issue of managing sub-national liabilities is not only an issue in the EU, but is also being a major concern in South Asia, China and Brazil as much of the public investment needed for sustainable...
by Ehtisham Ahmad | On 26 Feb 2016 This paper argues that development policies operate in Indian democracy at the interstices of two largely different yet interconnected worlds – of technical formulation and political formations. The I...
by | On 25 Feb 2016 Who would have thought thirty years ago China could become one of the world’s most influential trading nations? At that time the Chinese government was reluctant to open up its door for foreigners and...
by Alice Wang | On 24 Feb 2016 Abstract: The development of China-ASEAN trade and economic relations within the recent 15 years has of great significance not only for both sides but also for the whole East-Asia region. This paper i...
by Zhao Jianglin | On 24 Feb 2016 Japanese corporations and American and European corporations take different approaches when it comes to business in China in general: (i) American corporations are concentrated in the music, motion pi...
by Yoshio Iteya | On 24 Feb 2016 The recent monsoon-related floods have wreaked havoc in Pakistan. Decades of development outcomes have been wiped out and critical human security challenges have been precipitated. It is critical to b...
by | On 23 Feb 2016 In this paper we attempt to explain the China Puzzle: coexistence of accelerating economic growth and worsening growth outlook. The root cause lies in China’s unique liberalization approach, i.e., the...
by Huang Yiping | On 22 Feb 2016 Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but...
by Kym Anderson | On 22 Feb 2016 The South Asia region is lagging behind many regions in the world in regional electricity cooperation and trading, despite the huge anticipated benefits. This study uses an electricity planning model...
by Govinda Timilsina | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper examines the impact of sectorial reforms on current account imbalances, with a special focus on the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In particular, we investigate to what extent reforms pe...
by Hiro Ito | On 21 Feb 2016 This paper discusses Japan’s strategy for Asian monetary integration. It argues that Japan faces three major policy challenges when promoting intraregional exchange rate stability. First, there must b...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 21 Feb 2016 This article analyses the motivation and impact of the 2009 intervention of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) in benchmark price negotiations. The impact of the transition from benchmark pri...
by Luke Hurst | On 21 Feb 2016 MarijkHuysman bases her lecture on the importance of accessible and effective urban waste collection services for public health, environmental conditions, productivity and aesthetics of cities. Yet ev...
by | On 19 Feb 2016 The employment shock of late 2008 in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different events: (i) the contractionary macroeconomic policies introduced by the government...
by Xin Meng | On 19 Feb 2016 China is the only country in the world with two sovereign investment vehicles dedicated to managing excess foreign reserves for return, not just safety and liquidity. As the investment profile and beh...
by Angela Cummine | On 19 Feb 2016 Financial globalization has gathered attention since the early 1990s because of its macrofinancial and crisis implications and its perceived large expansion. But financial globalization has taken diff...
by Francisco Ceballos | On 16 Feb 2016 The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of Europe’s structural problems and governance as the cause of the current euro area crisis. The euro may have led to bubbles, but member econo...
by Sahoko Kaji | On 16 Feb 2016 This article examines three elements of the popular narrative of China’s involvement in the development of Afghanistan’s vast natural resource wealth. It argues that Chinese companies invested in Afgh...
by Erica Downs | On 14 Feb 2016 This essay, published originally by the National Bureau of Asian Research, discusses the long-term and current relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the intertwined militancy in the two count...
by Vanda Felbab-Brown | On 14 Feb 2016 India has the second largest population of elderly people after China. The living arrangement of the elderly is seen as a parameter of great importance in understanding their plight in developing coun...
by Mitali Sen | On 14 Feb 2016 Intellectual Property and Competition Law is one further contribution of the ICTSD Programme on Intellectual Property Rights and Sustainable Development to a better understanding of the proper role of...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 Can self-identification of occupation be applied in web surveys by using a look-up table with coded occupational titles, in contrast to other survey modes where an open format question with office-cod...
by | On 10 Feb 2016 Modern societies regard knowledge as a production factor in its own right. The market is the prevailing governance mode of their economies, and it is supposed to be the most appropriate mode of tradin...
by | On 08 Feb 2016 Do leader networks promote efficient intergovernmental contracts? We examine a groundbreaking policy in China where subprovincial governments freely traded land conversion quotas and investigate the r...
by Nancy H. Chau | On 07 Feb 2016 This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in Chi...
by Sylvie Démurger | On 07 Feb 2016 We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness score...
by M. Niaz Asadullah | On 07 Feb 2016 One way to do a reality check on the official numbers will be to develop a desi version of what came to be called the Li index in China.
by T.N. Ninan | On 06 Feb 2016 In this study, an investigation of the effects of capital inflows on domestic price level, monetary expansion and exchange rate volatility. To proceed with this, linear and nonlinear cointegration and...
by Abdul Rashid | On 06 Feb 2016 This contribution addresses the political and legal aspects of European and Asian membership and practice in the UNSC. First, it highlights the difficulties of the European Union (EU) becoming a fully...
by Jan Wouters | On 03 Feb 2016 In recent years, Central Asia has increasingly come under the focus of the European Union (EU). This development occurred not least due to a series of interruptions in the supply of Russian natural ga...
by Sijbren Jong | On 03 Feb 2016 ayyadism is a term coined by New York Times columnist Tom Friedman that has gained widespread usage in the media and the quasi-academic literature emanating from various high-profile English-language...
by | On 02 Feb 2016 In this paper a comparative analysis of the role of government policies in industrial learning and the development of capabilities of indigenous firms in Mexico and China in order to shed light on why...
by Kevin P. Gallagher | On 31 Jan 2016 China has emerged as one of the important factors in India-Sri Lanka relations. It is important to contextualise this intervening variable, before going into various aspects of China’s footprints in S...
by N Manoharan | On 31 Jan 2016 The purpose of this research study was to examine the expansion and to evaluate the social sciences in Pakistan. The sample consisted of 60 departments of social sciences from five disciplines (Econom...
by Muhammad Arslan Haider | On 30 Jan 2016 The intersection of trade secrets, innovation, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) forms a topic that is increasingly debated as part of the public discourse on intangible capital and intellectual...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper reviews the literature on the potential biophysical and economic impacts of climate change in the Himalayas. Existing observations indicate that the temperature is rising at a higher rate i...
by Kumud Acharya | On 28 Jan 2016 Of all the nations that border China, its comparison with Bhutan would appear to be a paradox. In comprehensive power terms, Bhutan is almost a nonentity to China. Bhutan’s biggest disadvantage is its...
by Tilak Jha | On 28 Jan 2016 The implications of an agreement between Bhutan and China would be substantial for India. The border conflict between India and China would be the last to be resolved by Beijing. This might result in...
by Marian Gallenkamp | On 28 Jan 2016 People in the Himalayan region are confronted with changes due to global warming. Glaciers are melting, leading to changing river flows and an increased risk of floods (Richardson and Reynolds, 2000;...
by Norbu Wangdi | On 28 Jan 2016 This document elaborates the scientific framework of the Adaptation to Change Programme in an attempt to improve the connections between science, policy, practice, and stakeholders and to tackle chall...
by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Devel ICIMOD | On 28 Jan 2016 This paper compares the experiences in India and China and draws lessons for policy formulation. The important lessons are: (a) self-financing nature of FLC/SWC is a crucial factor for achieving effec...
by Jeemol Unni | On 28 Jan 2016 An overview is provided of the state of knowledge on internal migration in developing economies, with particular emphasis on recent contributions to the literature. The overview is divided into five s...
by | On 28 Jan 2016 This case study explores the socioeconomic experiences of gender and sexuality minority peoples in India, especially in respect of ways in which sexual and gender ‘difference’ may be correlated to eco...
by | On 26 Jan 2016 This paper outlines the political reforms and reconciliation process presently underway in Myanmar and the challenges posed to it. A detailed analysis of changing power dynamics in Myanmar, and the re...
by | On 25 Jan 2016 As the Himalayan ecosystem is susceptible to natural disasters due to the global climatechange patterns, the earthquake that struck Nepal recently might not be the last or the deadliest. An important...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 India and its partners – Brazil, China, Russia and South Africa – in the BRICS forum have launched the New Development Bank. With the leaders of these countries, who recently met at Ufa in Russia, dis...
by | On 23 Jan 2016 This note examines recent movements in net domestic asset (NDA) and net foreign asset (NFA) of BB vis-à-vis the proposed monetary program for FY09 and brings out possible policy implications and manag...
by Bangladesh Bank | On 23 Jan 2016 Alliances’ of public and private actors can play a crucial role in accelerating the transition to sustainable energy systems, and these groupings can be ‘engineered’. Based on research findings from I...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 23 Jan 2016 The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are increasingly prominent in development cooperation activities in low-income countries in Africa and worldwide, presenting a pote...
by Institute of Development Studies IDS | On 23 Jan 2016 The focus of this research is on the determinants of low-carbon investment in the world’s two largest emerging economies: China and India. While these countries are responsible for the biggest growth...
by Stephen Spratt | On 23 Jan 2016 This brief provides a historical-cum-ongoing account as well as an assessment of the future of China’s dam-building exercise, its rationale and consequences at all levels – geographically, environment...
by Dhanasree Jayaram | On 21 Jan 2016 The paper argues that there is great disparity of incomes between developed and developing countries. Relative income gap of the developing countries which was 10.8 per cent in 2000 was 15.1 per cent...
by | On 21 Jan 2016 This paper is organized in three main sections. The first section provides some definitions of the key terms and describes how both internal and international migration impact on development. An under...
by | On 19 Jan 2016 In recent decades, research and development has become a key new arena of globalization. Whereas multinational corporations once conducted R&D primarily in their home countries, it is now often disper...
by Andrew Kennedy | On 18 Jan 2016 The Brics line-up has yielded to a shaky China-India story, with new question marks over China even as India remains a "B+" performer.
by T.N. Ninan | On 16 Jan 2016 This paper focuses on the question whether public infrastructure capital matters for labor productivity in China, both over time and across regions. It finds that public infrastructure is a significan...
by | On 15 Jan 2016 This article consists in three parts. The first part deals with theory. We evaluate the pros and cons of government involvement in urban housing and of renting versus ownership. In the second part, we...
by Yves Zenou | On 14 Jan 2016 The study of international organizations inevitably leads to consideration of the role of several that have been at the heart of international efforts to promote development after World War II, primar...
by David Malone | On 13 Jan 2016 Regional integration efforts have intensified at varying levels over the years to implement the regional integration initiatives of ASEAN, ASEAN+3 and ASEAN+6. Current efforts are still not enough to...
by OECD Development Centre | On 13 Jan 2016 China has departed from the East Asian model of development by letting inequality to rise to a high level, which is contributing to China’s current problems of macroeconomic imbalance, declining effic...
by | On 11 Jan 2016 The implications of recent events in Maldives go far beyond the pristine shores of that enchanting archipelago. The paper discusses the larger geopolitical implications of the suspension of democracy,...
by Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury | On 09 Jan 2016 India and China, viewing themselves as key players within the BRICS which they see in a worldwide perspective, had in fact made two different global commitments on the eve of this Brisbane G20 summit....
by P S Suryanarayana | On 09 Jan 2016 The South China Sea (SCS) disputes are regarded as one of the most difficult regional conflicts in the Asia-Pacific, in an ‘arena of escalating contention. This paper looks at India’s interests and st...
by Rajeev Ranjan Chaturvedy | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper looks at the ‘BCIM Regional Cooperation’ and the related proposal to revive the ‘Southern Silk Route’ connecting China and India through Bangladesh and Myanmar. The aim is to understand the...
by | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper discusses revival of the Maritime Silk Road. It begins with a narration of the historical background of MSR, its origin and development, followed by an analysis of latest announcements by t...
by | On 09 Jan 2016 This paper tries to analyse the effects of TRIPS on public welfare in the context of the pharmaceutical sector. It takes a closer look at the policies of some developing countries and their usage of t...
by Deeparghya Mukherjee | On 09 Jan 2016 Constitutional arrangements for peripheral areas in India reflect the national government’s instrumentalist attempts at decentralising bureaucratic and administrative control in far-flung (essentially...
by Sanjay Barbora | On 08 Jan 2016 Understanding the demographic changes that are likely to unfold over the coming years, as well as the challenges and opportunities that they present for achieving sustainable development, is important...
by United Nations (UN) | On 08 Jan 2016 Most projections envision continued rapid growth in the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and India (collectively, ACI) over the next...
by Fan Zhai | On 07 Jan 2016 This paper explores the long-term challenges for trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The region has emerged as an important production base...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 06 Jan 2016 Japan has suffered from sluggish economic growth and recession since the 1990s, a phenomenon dubbed “Japan’s Lost Decade.” The People’s Republic of China, many countries in the eurozone, and the Unite...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 06 Jan 2016 This article explores the relationship between internal migration and economic growth and development in Asia, concentrating on four countries: China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. Levels of internal...
by | On 05 Jan 2016 Open educational resources made their appearance in early 2002 as a promising tool for enhancing the quality of and access to education and were perceived to have the potential to reduce costs by reus...
by Jouko Sarvi | On 01 Jan 2016 This paper examines the trends in urbanization in the People’s Republic of China.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is experiencing a trend toward population concentration in its large coastal c...
by Zhao Chen | On 01 Jan 2016 We study urban, private sector Chinese employers’ preferences between workers with and without a local permanent residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board. We find...
by | On 30 Dec 2015 Although endowed with an abundant supply of water, people in the western central Himalayan region, namely Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, suffer from a variety of water problems. The Jal Sanskriti p...
by People's Science Institute PSI | On 29 Dec 2015 Nepal's lackluster economic performance during the post-conflict period (that is, after November 2006) has been driven by remittances from the export of labor services and the improved performance of...
by Pradumna Rana | On 29 Dec 2015 In this paper, income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a method of moments procedure applied to grouped data. Estimated par...
by Duangkamon Chotikapanich | On 24 Dec 2015 The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of crude oil price movements on two macro variables, the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate and the consumer price index (CPI) inflation rate, in...
by Naoyuki Yoshino | On 23 Dec 2015 New powers, such as China, India and Brazil, are challenging the traditional dominance of the US in the governance of the global economy. It is generally taken for granted that the rise of new powers...
by Kristen Hopewell | On 23 Dec 2015 This paper examines the domestic sources of the internationalization of national oil companies (NOCs) in China and India. It argues that – counter to notions of state-led internationalization – the go...
by Jonas Mecklinga | On 23 Dec 2015 Despite growing interest in the phenomenon of ‘latecomer innovation,’ the nature of this challenge – and its relationship to globalization – remain poorly understood. This article develops a theoretic...
by Andrew Kennedya Kennedya | On 23 Dec 2015 This paper aims at understanding the reasons behind the institutionalization of Indo-French defence cooperation after 1998, and at assessing the future prospects for this collaboration. By retracing i...
by | On 22 Dec 2015 The strengthening of El Niño weather phenomenon has led to lower than average rainfall for India’s monsoon season, thereby raising concerns for paddy crops production.
by Aritra Chakrabarty | On 21 Dec 2015 Disaster risk now presents one of the most serious threats to inclusive and sustainable socioeconomic development. Coupled with anticipated increases in the frequency and intensity of weather-related...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Dec 2015 It is vital for countries to identify climate risks, reduce these risks through mitigation, and adapt to these risks—thereby increasing resilience and reducing vulnerability. This study informs decisi...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 21 Dec 2015 This note focus on some aspects relating to China’s currency. The paper discusses the twin surpluses which have been continuing in China’s external payments, especially in relation to trade which went...
by Sunanda Sen | On 18 Dec 2015 This paper examines the growth, geographic distribution, and quality concerns of medical education in India, particularly in the private sector. It is observed that an important feature of the conside...
by Pradeep Choudhury | On 18 Dec 2015 The main intention of the paper is to investigate the extent of sterilization of Bangladesh Bank to offset the monetary expansionary effect of reserve accumulation in the foreign exchange market.
To...
by Mst. Nurnaher Begum | On 18 Dec 2015 This research paper is divided into two parts to provide a more complete view of how both countries think in term of their ambitions and the methods they deem important to achieve them. This paper arg...
by | On 17 Dec 2015 This policy brief recommends that these include commitments to: ending extreme poverty and inequality, with a special focus on gender equity and women’s rights; aligning with environmental and social...
by Oxfam International | On 17 Dec 2015 This paper examines how parental migration affects children’s health and education outcomes. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China data we are able to measure the share of children’s lifetim...
by Xin Meng | On 17 Dec 2015 Main causes of inpatient death and uncured discharges are concerned by all stakeholders of healthcare sector. This paper studies determinants of inpatient death and uncured discharges in China. Based...
by Qiao Yu | On 16 Dec 2015 Back in 2004, when I ran the Chinadesk at the International Monetary Fund, my team some written questions to Beijing ahead of our meetings with Chinese officials. China’s central bank had claimed that...
by Eswar Prasad | On 16 Dec 2015 The bilateral relationship between India and China is much more complex and multifaceted today and elicits resolution strategies from the straight out simplistic18 to the near irreconcilable19. And af...
by Namrata Goswami | On 15 Dec 2015 A framework for comparing mitigation effort is drawn, drawing from a set
of principles for designing and implementing informative metrics. A template for organizing metrics on mitigation effort is pr...
by William Pizer | On 09 Dec 2015 Using plausibly exogenous variations in the ethnicity-specific assigned birth quotas and different fertility penalties across Chinese provinces over time, the paper provide new evidence for the transf...
by | On 01 Dec 2015 An important element of the socio-economic impact of HIV is
how it disproportionately affects women and girls, in terms of
their vulnerability to infection, constrained access to services
and the a...
by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | On 01 Dec 2015 The Arctic sea ice has refrozen after a relatively longer summer this year compared with 2011. There are encouraging reports for the shipping industry and it is believed that similar navigation condit...
by Vijay Sakhuja | On 24 Nov 2015 This interview is with D Raghunandan of Delhi Science Forum on India’s pledge regarding climate changes negotiations in Paris. The pledge was recently revealed in the documents presented by Prakash J...
by D Raghunandan | On 20 Oct 2015 The instrumental role of government in the development of social work in China has led to questions about its political function. So far, little has been reported on how the government has “made” soci...
by | On 20 Oct 2015 This paper attempts to discuss India’s options to collaborate with
China at the event of the formation of new financial institutions and how should India engage with
China’s new Silk Road strategy.
by Ajay Chhibber | On 16 Oct 2015 As the Indian Ocean region increasingly becomes a more important geopolitical space, global powers and smaller states are laying down their stakes. This paper examines the military build-up of major I...
by | On 15 Oct 2015 This paper critically examines the ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ (VoC) School’s approach to constructing typologies of capitalisms with reference to the specific case of Indian capitalism. It emphasizes t...
by Surajit Mazumdar | On 14 Oct 2015 Present study has been
undertaken to understand that to what extent reforms measures in terms of repeal of
the act has affected investment in agricultural marketing infrastructure. The present
s...
by Vijay Intodia | On 14 Oct 2015 The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. A major problem is that consumption measured from household surveys, which is used to measure poverty, grows less rapi...
by Angus Deaton | On 13 Oct 2015 The new dread-word is deflation. What does this mean for India? This can cause a threat for domestic producers. This is because of the global situation. We can be prepared and by improving efficiency...
by T.N. Ninan | On 09 Oct 2015 Existing studies that evaluate the impact of pollution on human beings understate its negative effect on
cognition, mental health, and happiness. This paper attempts to fill in the gap via investigat...
by Xin Zhang | On 08 Oct 2015 This paper studies how status competition for marriage partners can generate surprising effects on the real exchange rate (RER). In theory, a rise in the sex ratio (increasing relative surplus of men)...
by Qingyuan Du | On 08 Oct 2015 This paper examines the impact of changing population age structure on economic growth in China and India. The paper present various theoretical perspectives and supporting evidence to emphasis the si...
by William Joe | On 06 Oct 2015 What the government needs to do, perhaps, is to spell out an action agenda for the next four months, in the run-up to the 2016 Budget.
by T.N. Ninan | On 02 Oct 2015 This report from the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geo-economics maps out the challenges that current geo-economic trends pose for globalisation. Findings show that the rise in strat...
by | On 22 Sep 2015 Review of . Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors. Reuven Amitai, Michal Biran, eds.
Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2014. ix + 345 pp., ISBN 978-0-8...
by Stewart Gordon | On 21 Sep 2015 Review of Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence, and Representation in Postcolonial India by Deepti Misri. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014. 224 pp. Rs. 2,109/- (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08039-5.
by Taveeshi Singh | On 21 Sep 2015 Seven years after the financial crisis, countries have done well. India is also doing well but there is a lot of difference in the programmes announced and how they are implemented.
by T.N. Ninan | On 19 Sep 2015 In this paper results are analysed from a field experiment exploring the response of poor households in China to food price subsidies. Many developing countries use food price subsidies or price cont...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 The establishment of a development bank by the BRICS association
of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa is being described by both proponents and opponents of globalization as a rebellion...
by | On 18 Sep 2015 After generations of wanderlust, that often snapped ties with their roots, Goans from far and near are returning with renewed interest to trace their origins. And they may be the lucky ones. Goa with...
by Frederick Noronha | On 09 Sep 2015 The goal of this study is to examine whether promising a Conditional Cash Transfer (conditional on matriculation) at the start of junior high increases the rate at which disadvantaged students matricu...
by Fan Li | On 09 Sep 2015 In India, Basel III capital regulation has been implemented from April 1, 2013 in phases and it will be fully implemented as on March 31, 2019. Do we need Basel III for a country like India? What are...
by N.S. Viswanathan | On 08 Sep 2015 The paper highlights the importance of “broad-based growth” as a framework to support economic growth and inclusiveness at the same time. Different countries show different dynamics between economic g...
by Jong Woo Kang | On 07 Sep 2015 The findings of the paper highlights the role of fertility policies in women’s empowerment of last century. This paper investigates the impact of the birth control policies on teenage girls’ education...
by Wei Huang | On 03 Sep 2015 The study tries to evaluate the impact of recent crisis episodes viz. the global recession of 2008-09 and the Eurozone debt crisis of 2010-122
on the Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) of China and Ind...
by Pami Dua | On 03 Sep 2015 This paper studies the mutual effects of globalization, liberalization and income inequality using a case study of China. Comparing the trends of economic growth and income distribution, it found that...
by Jinjun Xue | On 03 Sep 2015 The paper analyses the nexus between growth, employment and poverty and points out situations where high economic growth may fail to bring about a commensurate rate of poverty reduction if simultaneo...
by | On 02 Sep 2015 Social scientists theorize that the inverse relationship between socio-economic status and family size represents a trade-off between the quality and quantity of children. Evaluating this hypothesis e...
by Susan Averett | On 26 Aug 2015 Review of Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-1510. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 328 pp. Rs. 4,029/- (hardcover), ISBN-13 978-08122...
by Liam M. Brockey | On 26 Aug 2015 This paper examines the issue of internet governance and analyzes the developments and challenges in reforming the current system. With state and non-state actors alike seeking to influence the way th...
by | On 25 Aug 2015 This note presents data regarding Parliament productivity during Monsoon Session 2015. This session has been one of the least productive sessions in the last 15 years with repeated disruptions in both...
by Kusum Malik | On 24 Aug 2015 Global market is in a turmoil. How can India have a stable economy? There are no easy solutions but to play safe.
by T.N. Ninan | On 21 Aug 2015 This paper analyses an overview of china human development in Time and Space. The paper covers themes like regional inequality in China Since 1952 and Urban-Rural Inequality, 1980-2000. The paper is a...
by | On 21 Aug 2015 This paper compares the experience of poverty reduction in China and India. It finds that more than economic growth per se, what has mattered crucially is the nature of the growth: whether it is assoc...
by Jayati Ghosh | On 21 Aug 2015 Continuous enterprise restructuring is needed for the transition and emerging market economies to become and remain competitive. However, the beneficial effects of restructuring in the medium run are...
by Hartmut Lehmann | On 21 Aug 2015 Cross-border migration for the purpose of marriage is on the rise, and at present it constitutes one of the most common forms of long-term international mobility in East Asia. The articles included he...
by | On 20 Aug 2015 Unemployment rates in countries across the world are typically positively correlated with GDP. China is an unusual outlier from the pattern, with abnormally low, and suspiciously stable, unemployment...
by Shuaizhang Feng | On 19 Aug 2015 Of all the markets in which politicians interfere with prices, the land market is probably the last that will be reformed.
by T.N. Ninan | On 08 Aug 2015 This paper presents a novel analytical framework to study transnational activism in the context of today’s international governance architecture. While there is a considerable amount of literature on...
by Sabrina Zajak | On 07 Aug 2015 A survey's design determines its findings; understanding the logic behind measurement is key to interpretation.
by T.N. Ninan | On 01 Aug 2015 This paper examines wealth distribution in China and India. As China and India have witnessed significant growth rates between 1980 and 2000s, how this growth has been distributed amongst its citizens...
by | On 30 Jul 2015 China and India have approached trade negotiations very differently: the former with confidence, the latter in a defensive crouch.
by T.N. Ninan | On 25 Jul 2015 Review of Naval Resistance to Britain’s Growing Power in India, 1660-1800: The Saffron Banner and the Tiger of Mysore. Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2014. 224 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84383-948-4.
by Nicholas Cunigan | On 25 Jul 2015 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will meet for the monsoon session between July 21 and August 13, 2015.
The legislative agenda includes 7 legislative Bills currently pending in Parliament for consideration...
by Kusum Malik | On 21 Jul 2015 This paper studies the policy determinants of economic transition and estimates the demand for labor in the infant private sector in urban China. It shows that a reform that untied access to housing i...
by Lakshmi Iyer | On 20 Jul 2015 Applying ‘spatial’ lens to Northeast India (NEI) is merely not for hermeneutic purposes but for a nuanced understanding of the flux accompanying the region. Spatial analysis helps us to move beyond th...
by Gorky Chakraborty | On 01 Jul 2015 There are an estimated 750 million internal migrants in the world, yet the effects of access to internal migration for rural households are not well understood. Internal migrants may provide wealth tr...
by Cynthia Kinnan | On 25 Jun 2015 This essay mainly examines the relationship between feminism and nationalism as a point from which it looks at South Asian feminist scholarship. The historical circumstances in their respective countr...
by Uma Chakravarti | On 08 Jun 2015 India and China, two of the world's oldest civilisations, have had little historically relevant interactions with one other. Separated by the world's highest mountain range, the Himalayas, neither of...
by Himanil Raina | On 04 Jun 2015 This Food and Agriculture Organization publication assesses the extent of the "double burden" of malnutrition in six developing countries – China, Egypt, India, Mexico, the Philippines and South Afric...
by Food and Nutrition Division FAO | On 01 Jun 2015 This article, written during the 2014 civil disobedience 'Umbrella Revolution' in Hong Kong, suggests that this protest became a turning point in China Hong Kong relations. Suggesting that the protest...
by Willy Lam | On 29 Apr 2015 In context of contemporary debates about censorship, net neutrality and the role of the state in today’s globalising world, it becomes vital to examine the stand taken by various Asian governments tow...
by Nandini Bhattacharya | On 17 Apr 2015 Internet service providers (ISPs) have played an important role in China's internet regulation regime. This article illustrates how ISPs are governed to serve the government's regulatory goals.
by Henry L. Hu | On 15 Apr 2015 After 30 years of economic reforms, what is the comparative situation of men and women in the People’s Republic of China? How can we analyse the policies for promoting gender equality? Have inequaliti...
by | On 14 Apr 2015 In this paper People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) potential growth rate during the last 30 years is analysed. The PRC’s potential growth rate is not demand constrained, in particular by the balance...
by Juzhong Zhuang | On 27 Mar 2015 President Xi has remarked that China’s current model of economic development is “unbalanced,
uncoordinated and unsustainable”1
and China’s leadership has signalled its intention to “accelerate
the...
by | On 25 Mar 2015 Southeast Asia has been one of the key components of Japan's foreign policy in the post-Cold War period. It is one region where Japan's diplomacy has accomplished considerable success in coming to ter...
by | On 24 Mar 2015 This paper aims to show that culture is an important determinant of the effectiveness of formal democratic institutions, such as elections. It is found that social capital complements democratic insti...
by Gerard Padro -i-Miquel | On 23 Mar 2015 Territorial disputes between China and Japan over the
Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea and between Japan and
South Korea over the Takeshima/Dokdo islands in the Sea of Japan have,
parti...
by | On 12 Mar 2015 This paper attempts to study the conditions under which China's manufacturing sector thrived in the last few decades. Some distinctive policies (such as in decentralisation, foreign direct investmen...
by Pravakar Sahoo | On 19 Feb 2015 Development economists have considered physical infrastructure to be a precondition for industrialization and economic development. Yet, two issues remain to be addressed in the literature. First, whi...
by Yasuyuki Sawada | On 16 Feb 2015 This paper provides a review of the national experiences of six emerging and developing economies, two from Latin America (Brazil and Mexico), three from Asia (China, India, and Malaysia), and one fro...
by Pooja Sharma | On 23 Jan 2015 This paper focuses on historical aspects of land resources, land evolution and management.
Moreover, it describes land issues before and after the Ice age 5000 B.C. Pre-Vedic literature on
origin of...
by M S Umesh Babu | On 21 Jan 2015 China's one-child family policy has had a great effect on the lives of nearly a quarter of the world's population for a quarter of a century. When the policy was introduced in 1979, the Chinese govern...
by | On 13 Jan 2015 This brief discusses China's political, economic, territorial, and security relations with North Korea. It suggests that although China remains North Korea's most important ally as well as its biggest...
by | On 26 Dec 2014 The lack of social protection for the elderly in rural areas of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has, since the 1990s, been seen by the government as a critical issue. The central government intro...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 23 Dec 2014 The bilateral Joint Announcement on Climate Change Agreement released by the US and China on 11 November on the sidelines of the APEC Meeting in Beijing has imparted a new momentum to the troubled neg...
by D Raghunandan | On 21 Dec 2014 Recently, the U.S. and China signed a bilateral treaty according to which they would equalise green house emissions by 2030, followed by a gradual reduction in emissions. Not part of the treaty, India...
by Sunita Narain | On 17 Dec 2014 The basic objective of the study is to examine the impact of public expenditure on health and education after
incorporating the linkages between health status of children and their educational achiev...
by Runu Bhatka | On 12 Dec 2014 The US “peaked” its emissions in 2012. Countries which were required to cut emissions did not do so at the scale or pace needed. The Durban CoP agreed that the world would work to finalise a new agree...
by Sunita Narain | On 03 Dec 2014 Young people matter. They matter because an unprecedented 1.8 billion youth are alive today, and because they are the shapers and leaders of our global future. They matter because they have inherent h...
by United Nations Population Fund UNFPA | On 19 Nov 2014 India has been a land of myths. Industrial relations are no exception to this trend. The arguments in the name of supporting the chorus for labour law and governance reforms, when reviewed carefully w...
by K.R. Shyam Sundar | On 14 Nov 2014 This paper estimates the impact of China’s exchange rate changes on exports of competitor
countries in third markets, which is called as the “spillover effect. Recent theory is used to
develop an id...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 29 Oct 2014 In this book, Arvind Subramanian presents the following possibilities: What if, contrary to common belief, China's economic dominance is a present-day reality rather than a faraway possibility? What i...
by Arvind Subramanian | On 20 Oct 2014 India’s recent development cooperation activities with the South have provoked global curiosity. Two factors shape this interest. First, the strong growth of some countries like India, China and Brazi...
by Sachin Chaturvedi | On 18 Sep 2014 A picture about the macroeconomy that is, the world economy and the domestic economy is given. The two recent regulatory measures are given here. [FICCI/IBA Annual Banking Conference].
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 18 Sep 2014 Over the past 40 years, China’s population has been aging at a rate that took more than 100 years in developed countries. In 2010, the number of people over 60 years old reached 178 million in China,...
by World Bank | On 09 Sep 2014 Given the phenomenal scale of internal migration in China, migrant health has become a prominent policy issue. Various policy actors are now involved in the development of migrant health policy. Howev...
by Yapeng Zhu | On 23 Aug 2014 Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries in education, personal autonomy, and more explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies
that are poor today hold certain cu...
by Seema Jayachandran | On 11 Aug 2014 The district of Malappuram was formed on the 16th demographics and led to intense debates and agitation in the state, with each side accusing the other of communalism and partisanship. This paper is a...
by Mohamed Shafeeq K | On 24 Jul 2014 The report provides an account
of the State, the Party and the political system in China, which will enable a
more accurate appreciation of the Planning System and Process of the
People’s Republic....
by Institute of Chinese Stuies ICS | On 21 Jul 2014 Given the commonalities in terms of history, culture, languages and trade complementarity in many cases, the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) Corridor is a win-win arrangement. The linkages of tr...
by Pravakar Sahoo | On 15 Jul 2014 Should India's export promotion policies be targeted at accelerating export growth at the extensive(new
trading relationships) or at the intensive margin (increase in trade of existing relationships)...
by C. Veeramani | On 08 Apr 2014 Drawing on the convergence theory, one would expect that as a latecomer to integrate with the globalized economy India’s export performance would be at least on par with that of China because China’s...
by Kaliappa Kalirajan | On 12 Mar 2014 This paper studies the potential impact of the programme ‘SimSmoke Tobacco Control Policy’ in China. China is home to about one third of the world's smokers and reducing smoking in China could have an...
by David Levy | On 19 Feb 2014 This article systematically compares maritime territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas. It draws on the bargaining model of war and hegemonic stability theory to track the record of confl...
by Andy Yee | On 02 Jan 2014 This paper attempts to project the likely impact of robust monsoon rains of 2013 on the Agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in India. The model hypothesizes that the performance of agricu...
by Ashok Gulati | On 17 Dec 2013 ASEAN, for China, is the focal point for Chinese diplomacy with Southeast Asian countries. Beyond ASEAN, China’s overall relations with Russia, Central Asia and most South Asian countries are relative...
by Chaobing Qiu | On 29 Nov 2013 This paper examines a range of possible outcomes in strategic Asia and evaluates the likelihood of each outcome based on the prospective performance of the U.S and the Chinese economies, potential pol...
by Aaron Friedberg | On 26 Nov 2013 Reading copies of The Lancet from the 19th century will produce uncomfortable feelings among today's readers. The journal is littered with reports of disease and injury from parts of the world under B...
by Richard Horton | On 22 Nov 2013 This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. A simple illustrative model based on Dustmann (2003) is presented that incorporates economic
and non-economic motive...
by Sylvie Démurger | On 13 Nov 2013 China has achieved miraculous economic growth over the past 30 years to become the world’s second largest single-country economy. The economic boom is attributed to China’s market-oriented reforms, wh...
by Dr. Junjie Zhang | On 23 Oct 2013 China and India are in the vanguard of a wave of urban expansion that is restoring the global prominence that Asia enjoyed before the European and North American industrial revolution.
Never before i...
by Richard Dobbs | On 15 Oct 2013 The Monsoon Session ended with the passage of Bills on food security, land acquisition, companies, and pension. During the session, significant time was lost due to frequent disruptions over issues su...
by Kusum Malik | On 12 Sep 2013 David Jackson is a Professor of Spanish and Portuguese. His research interests include Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures; Camões, Machado de Assis, Fernando Pessoa; modernist, vanguardist, and inte...
by Yale University | On 14 Aug 2013 In China’s foreign affairs and security studies, the concept of the ‘neighborhood’
(zhoubian) has a special meaning that has changed gradually over time. As China has developed, its leadership has be...
by Zhang Chi | On 12 Aug 2013 This paper seeks to map out the historical trajectory leading to a series of migrations in and from the erstwhile princely state of Travancore during 1900-70 in order to acquire and bring land under c...
by V. J. Varghese | On 26 Jun 2013 Parliament convened for the Budget Session 2013 for 32 days between February 21 and May 8. Both Houses
were adjourned sine die on May 8, two days ahead of the planned schedule. There was a month long...
by Priya Soman | On 03 Jun 2013 Land acquisition, which refers to the process of a government forcibly acquiring private property for public purpose, has been the cause of over a third of the legal conflicts in India in the past dec...
by iGovernment. in | On 19 Apr 2013 The overall goal of this paper is to analyse the political economy of food price policies in
China during the global food crisis. The results show that given China’s unique economic and
political co...
by Jikun Huang | On 18 Apr 2013 The importance of the political parties in Myanmar and their role as the
creators of the future of the country. The course of the present developments
relies on the ability of the political parties....
by Aung Aung (IR) | On 09 Apr 2013 Following is the full text of report on the implementation of central and local budgets in 2012 and on draft central and local budgets for 2013, which was submitted for review on March 5, 2013 at the...
by Ministry of Finance China | On 21 Mar 2013 The ambitious development plans for the Lancang-Mekong River Basin (LMRB) could have serious environmental, social, cultural and even geopolitical ramifications that could in turn destabilise the Meko...
by Apichai Sunchindah | On 15 Mar 2013 New Delhi launched its SEZ revolution in April 2000 to secure the country a
two digit growth rate, copying from China what during the previous two decades proved
to be an excellent strategy, this pa...
by Claudia Astarita | On 21 Feb 2013 Chinese hydropower companies and banks are now the largest dam builders in
the world. Chinese banks have stepped in to fill the gap left by traditional dam
funders such as the World Bank. The Chines...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 15 Jan 2013 This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter
heterogeneity, for which religious fractionalization is taken as a proxy. [BREAD Working No. 366]. URL:[http:/...
by Gerard Padro-i- Miquel | On 09 Jan 2013 This paper provides a
detailed analysis of trade flows between the two emerging economies and investigates on
which type of products and in which sectors the Indian government applies antidumping
m...
by Hylke Vandenbussche | On 23 Nov 2012 Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence
suggests that women may contribute to the persistence of this phenomenon because they
derive substantial long-run...
by Laura Zimmermann | On 19 Nov 2012 This article discusses the
cultural basis and origins of the idea of this strategy from the point of view
of China’s traditional culture and historical development and analyzes the
the reality of C...
by Wang Dewen | On 27 Sep 2012 This paper examines whether an individual-level transfer of property rights increases
the individual's bargaining power within the household. The question is analyzed in
the context of a housing ref...
by Shing-Yi Wang | On 18 Sep 2012 The earlier National Youth Policy was formulated in 1988. The socio-economic conditions in the country have since undergone a significant change and have been shaped by wide-ranging technological adva...
by Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs YAS | On 12 Sep 2012 Little business was transacted in the Monsoon Session of Parliament as protests over the CAG audit
of coal block allocations regularly disrupted proceedings. Both houses fell significantly short of t...
by Devika Malik | On 12 Sep 2012 A primary census-type panel household survey is show that in 18 villages in rural China, child health status has barely improved in the past decades despite more than double digit of annual per capita...
by Xi Chen | On 07 Sep 2012 As sex ratio imbalances have become a problem in an increasing number of countries, it is important to understand their consequences. With the defeat of the Kuomintang Party in China, more than one mi...
by Simon Chang | On 28 Aug 2012 Spot fire disputes have sparked across Asia, with the winds of nationalism spurring them on. If one
flares up it could ignite a region. Escalating tensions should have mediators vigilant and with pai...
by Elliot Brennan | On 24 Aug 2012 The paper examines the debates and makes specific policy recommendations by which regionalism, the engagement of small states (through the role of Singapore and the 3-G coalition), and the expansion o...
by Andrew F Cooper | On 09 Aug 2012 Environmental change is regarded by many geopolitical experts as one of the biggest threats to international security in the coming
years. In Southern Asia, its impact on rivers, and thus water secur...
by Dhanasree Jayaram | On 07 Aug 2012 What is ‘good’ governance?
Can the quality of governance be measured? And how do state
governments in India measure up by such a measure?
[Working Paper no. 104]. URL:[http://www.nipfp.org.in/neww...
by Sudipto Mundle | On 02 Aug 2012 This paper makes a first pass at evaluating embankments. Using two years or more of data from 504 households in 28 villages in the floodplain of the Kosi river in north Bihar, a comparison of the agri...
by E Somanathan | On 25 Jul 2012 Recent history tells us that the growth rate of the economy does not automatically go up and down with good and bad monsoons. [BS Weekend Ruminations]. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news...
by T.N. Ninan | On 18 Jul 2012 F rom its headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau to its estuary in Burma, the Salween River
supports over ten million people. For many decades, it was the longest free-flowing
river in Southeast Asia. It...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 17 Jul 2012 Developing Asia is the driver of today's emissions intensive global economy. As the principle source of future emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflec...
by Stephen Howes | On 16 Jul 2012 The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is the world’s largest and most
controversial hydropower project. The 600 kilometer-long reservoir has displaced
1.3 million people and is wreaking havoc wi...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 12 Jul 2012 Over the last few decades India has emerged as an economic giant. In 2000 the Special Economic
Zone (SEZs) policy became part of a strategy to maintain high growth and promote India’s manufacturing
...
by Ebba Mårtensson | On 11 Jul 2012 The different role of intra- and inter-national university-industry collaboration in industrial
innovation in emerging economies are investigated. Based on a national firm-level survey database from...
by Xiaolan Fu | On 09 Jul 2012 This study investigates the effects of introducing elections on public goods and redistribution in rural China. A large and unique survey was collected to document the history of political reforms and...
by Yang Yao | On 05 Jun 2012 The paper examines the Chinese Economy on the basis of four factors namely, human development, education, growth and inequality.
[IZA DP No. 6550]
URL: [http://ftp.iza.org/dp6550.pdf]
by James J Heckman | On 01 Jun 2012 The research was undertaken to better
understand the current policy and plans of the Cambodian government for the electricity
sector; map the decision-making process; develop a greater understanding...
by Carl Middleton | On 25 May 2012 The aim of this paper
is to examine the driving forces behind China’s military modernization efforts
followed by an assessment of the goals and foci of China’s military modernization
at present and...
by Jiao Liang | On 08 May 2012 A broad overview of the current state of pension systems in the People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam is provided. An anal...
by Donghyun Park | On 30 Apr 2012 The PRC’s leading position in high-tech exports is a myth created by outdated trade statistics which are inconsistent with trade based on global supply chains. It is argued that a value-added-based ap...
by Yuqing Xing | On 27 Apr 2012 India's trans-boundary riparian policies affect four countries - Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh - on three river systems - the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra-Mehgna. China's riparian pol...
by Gopal Siwakoti Chintan | On 25 Apr 2012 The paper examines the implications of Myanmar's reforms for its neighbours- China, India, Thailand and Bangladesh. Issues of major concern to the four countries include energy, humanitarian consequen...
by Lina Gong | On 20 Apr 2012 Th is study, which is supported by the ministries of fi nance and
the central banks of the BRICS, focuses on synergies and complementarities
between the economies, highlighting their role as growth
...
by Ministry of Finance | On 18 Apr 2012 This paper provides a synthesis of the experiences of six countries (Brazil, China, India, Malaysia, Mexico, and Nigeria) in enhancing food security of their population. Approximately 46 per cent of t...
by Pooja Sharma | On 16 Apr 2012 What India has to do to overcome the dents that India has suffered in its international image? India will have to play a delicate game of exercising autonomy in its pursuit of national objectives with...
by T.N. Ninan | On 10 Apr 2012 China–India association in the BRICS bloc of countries is an example of multilateralism at its height. For China, the BRICS
group holds a strategic significance as it is targeted towards the Western...
by Jagannath P Panda | On 04 Apr 2012 India started exporting a small amount of honey in 1991-1992 and has now established itself as an important honey exporter to the world market. The quantity exported has increased substantially, and t...
by Harish K Sharma | On 02 Apr 2012 The populous, fast growing emerging economies of Brazil, China, Egypt, India and South Africa face daunting challenges on the energy, environment and climate change fronts. These five countries accoun...
by Kirit Parikh | On 02 Apr 2012 Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in
understanding the relationship between childhood health and health outcomes at
older ages. However, measured height of t...
by Wei Huang | On 02 Apr 2012 This study examines whether the allocation of public expenditures of
the Indian states are significantly influenced by government specific political
characteristics. Three types of government specif...
by Bharatee Bhusana Dash | On 27 Mar 2012 Since the elections of 2010, Myanmar’s political landscape has changed significantly;
the old military junta has officially been dissolved and a new
civilian government, led by President Thein Sein,...
by Christopher O’Hara | On 27 Mar 2012 The current century has witnessed every country locked in a hot race
to increase its national power through peaceful development, which made
Koreans ever more desirous of peace. But why has the Kore...
by Ho Hak Rim | On 20 Mar 2012 Rapid demographic ageing is a growing public health issue in many low- and middle-income countries
(LAMICs). Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a construct frequently used to define groups of people...
by Ana Luisa Sosa | On 19 Mar 2012 REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CENTRAL AND LOCAL BUDGETS
FOR 2011 AND ON DRAFT
CENTRAL AND LOCAL BUDGETS FOR 2012. [Ministry of Finance Report]. URL:[http://www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/news/...
by Ministry of Finance China | On 15 Mar 2012 To greatly develop trade in services and realize the transition from a big trade country to a strong trade country, the 12th Five Year Plan is formulated based on Outline of the 12th Five Year Plan f...
by Ministry of Commerce China | On 15 Mar 2012 The purpose of this report is twofold. First, a compendium of relevant data is presented on the state of the services sector in the ACI (ASEAN, PRC and India) countries, focusing on its contribution t...
by Ben Shepherd | On 12 Mar 2012 In this context, higher education as well as research and development (R&D) have long since ceased to be purely the domain of the developed Western economies. Numerous regions of the world, some in th...
by Ingo Rollwagen | On 09 Mar 2012 The implications of the rule of Chiang
Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo in Taiwan (1950–1988) for the Taiwan
Strait Crises is examined, especially the third one af??ter the Cold War and potenti...
by Lu Jinghua | On 05 Mar 2012 The vital status of 12,373 people aged 65 years and over was determined 3–5 years after baseline survey in
sites in Latin America, India, and China. Crude and standardised mortality rates are reporte...
by Cleusa P Ferri | On 05 Mar 2012 This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic
outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses
the problem of the endogenous pl...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 02 Mar 2012 Five years age, International Rivers started monitoring the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean
Development Mechanism (CDM), concerned that funds marked for climate change mitigation would be
used to encourage c...
by Barbara Haya | On 01 Mar 2012 In the last ten years, economic issues related to currency policy have become the major ongoing
dispute between China and the U.S. Especially the U.S. Congress is stridently demanding
a tougher poli...
by Nicola Nymalm | On 01 Mar 2012 Outward-oriented economies seem to grow faster than inward-looking ones. Does the literature on convergence have anything to say on this? In the dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model, with factor-pr...
by Partha Sen | On 28 Feb 2012 Institutions in developing countries, particularly those inherited from the colonial period, are often thought to be subject to strong inertia. This study presents the results of a unique randomized t...
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 27 Feb 2012 This paper explores the key reasons behind the movements in the terms of trade and the real net
gain and loss from trade in the long run. Like some selected Asian countries (Vietnam, China and
South...
by Mohammad Masuduzzaman | On 23 Feb 2012 Since 1999 the Chinese government implemented budget reform measures to streamline administrative processes. The government made considerable technical and process advances in just a few years, includ...
by Julian Wu | On 19 Feb 2012 Saving is an important part of the economic process that gives rise to investment and
economic growth. In this paper an attempt is made to explore the relationship between saving
and investment in t...
by Sanjib Bordoloi | On 14 Feb 2012 Data from two surveys of twins in China are used to contribute to an improved
understanding of the role of economic development in affecting gender differences in the
trends in, levels of, and retur...
by Mark Rosenzweig | On 13 Feb 2012 A prototype incentive system is developed for promoting rapid reduction of forest clearing in tropical countries. The proposed Tropical Forest Protection Fund (TFPF) is a cash-on-delivery system that...
by David Wheeler | On 09 Feb 2012 The study measures the contribution of MNCs to the generation of innovations from India.
The focus is on innovations that are carried out in foreign R&D Centres. After having
mapped out the size of...
by Rakesh Basant | On 06 Feb 2012 The international business literature has yet to adequately explore international
competitive strategy choices made by firms in developing countries. This study aims
to address this gap by investiga...
by Ping Lv | On 02 Feb 2012 Wetlands, which include tropical mangroves and boreal
peatlands, are among the most valuable ecosystems in the
world because they provide critical ecosystem goods and
services, such as carbon stora...
by David Moreno Mateos | On 01 Feb 2012 After a decade of rapid economic growth, many developing countries have attained middle-income status. But poverty reduction in these countries has not kept pace with economic growth. As a result, mos...
by Amanda Glassman | On 31 Jan 2012 The paper discusses the pros and cons of
the already proposed international cooperative mechanisms toward climate change
mitigation and highlights the problem of information revelation, particularly...
by Meeta Keswani Mehra | On 27 Jan 2012 Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, independent entrepreneurial migrants
from China have been increasingly flocking to Africa in search of “greener pastures.” This
paper scrutinizes the...
by Laurence Marfaing | On 25 Jan 2012 For the last half-century, the Tibetan people have endured the brunt of some of the Chinese governments most brutal policies. In the 1990's, an international activist movement, which attracted a small...
by Anthony Lappe | On 25 Jan 2012 While studying the economic growth of the two rising giants of Asia (India and China) it is seen that India is far behind China in many aspects. URL:[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/t-n-ni...
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Jan 2012 It has been widely documented that the poor spend a significant proportion of their income on gifts even at the expense of basic consumption. We test three competing explanations of this phenomenon—pe...
by Xi Chen | On 10 Jan 2012 The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to
the welfare of migrant workers, particularly to their working conditions and pay. This paper
uses data from...
by Jason Gagnon | On 06 Jan 2012 Based on the variable rate of gross domestic product per capita growth and its sources, this
paper first identifies five phases of economic development that are common to China, Japan,
and Korea: M...
by Masahiko Aoki | On 04 Jan 2012 A simple method is applied to study the relative quality of Chinese versus European products
exported in the clothing sector after the end of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement. Based on the
model of Foste...
by Hylke Vandenbussche | On 03 Jan 2012 The year in Parliament was characterised by frequent disruptions and protests over a host of issues.
The issue of the establishment of a Lokpal prompted both disruption as well as intense debate.
A...
by Rohit Kumar | On 02 Jan 2012 Delivering the third Business Standard lecture on Thursday night, Raghuram Rajan provided an interesting insight into the reason for high inflation in India. The professor of finance at Chicago, who i...
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Dec 2011 The three year journey of the G-20 Heads of Government Summit from Washington in 2008 to Paris this November is signified by two markers of the depth of the global capitalist crisis. First, that the c...
by Louise Ross | On 14 Dec 2011 Until recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been an effective framework for
cooperation because it has continually adapted to changing economic realities. The current Doha
Agenda is an ab...
by Aaditya Mattoo | On 13 Dec 2011 Possible scenarios for China and the world economy until
2015 is looked at. In all of them, China will continue to accumulate FX reserves, so that
reserve assets will remain the largest component of...
by Catherine Shu Ling Tan | On 08 Dec 2011 This policy brief takes a preliminary look at portability of social
security in ASEAN, particularly old-age, retirement, and
survivor benefits. The next section discusses the growth of
intra-ASEAN...
by Gloria O. Pasadilla | On 28 Nov 2011 P roponents of large dams, hoping to capitalize on concern for climate change, are promoting a major expansion of large dams in developing countries. Yet large dams are highly vulnerable to climate ch...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 24 Nov 2011 Rural households in developing economies frequently use precautionary saving to cope with income risk. Such prudent behavior can be strengthened in transition economies where more risks are typically...
by Ling Jin | On 23 Nov 2011 The paper scrutinizes the functioning of the G20 and its role in increasing coordination. and cooperation between Asian countries. It highlights divergent
agendas amongst the A6 as regards the future...
by Hugo Dobson | On 09 Nov 2011 The rapid export growth of China's township-village enterprises (TVEs)
has not been well understood and explained. Using a simple analytical model
and exploring a unique dataset on China's TVEs the...
by Changqi Wu | On 08 Nov 2011 This paper attempts to explain why internationalization processes to China are growing
despite the significant difficulties that foreign direct investments into China encounter.
The answer to this q...
by Geny Piotti | On 04 Nov 2011 This brief presents a review of the potential opportunities
and challenges of using nanotech applications for agriculture, food, and
water in developing countries. [IFPRI Policy Brief 19]. URL:[http...
by Guillaume Gruère | On 01 Nov 2011 This paper examines three software and/or information technology enabled services (ITES) industries—two in the early stages of development (in the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and the Philippines)...
by F Ted Tschang | On 25 Oct 2011 This paper focuses on the two-way relationship between China and the international economic system. China’s embrace of the global institutions and their rules and norms helped guide its spectacular ec...
by Wendy Dobson | On 17 Oct 2011 This article reviews beer production, consumption and the industrial organization of breweries throughout history. Monasteries were the centers of the beer economy in the early Middle Ages. Innovation...
by Eline Poelmans | On 14 Oct 2011 This research is about multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their subsidiaries abroad.
The specific focus of the research is on the foreign subsidiaries? local embeddedness, global
integration and m...
by Filip De Beule | On 10 Oct 2011 The
automobile industry in the ASEAN countries has expanded rapidly
over the last few years. The growth potential of the ASEAN auto
market and its now very major absolute importance for the industr...
by Eric Heymann | On 03 Oct 2011 The growth of East Asia’s intra-regional trade is driven largely by increased component
trade within global electronics production networks. Data on both electronics trade and
production elucidate a...
by Byron Gangnes | On 29 Sep 2011 The purpose of this guide is to support groups addressing the impacts of dams built by Chinese
companies and financiers. The guide is intended for use by non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
and in...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 19 Sep 2011 China’s expected growth slowdown - from 10.3 per cent yoy in 2010 to 8.9 per cent this year and 8.3 per cent in 2012 - will impact the global economy. An in-depth look at how important China really is...
by Steffen Dyck | On 09 Sep 2011 This note lists the legislative business planned by Parliament and compares it with the actual
performance during the Monsoon Session. URL:[http://www.prsindia.org/administrator/uploads/general/13154...
by Kusum Malik | On 08 Sep 2011 Globally, we are applying
excessive nitrogen (N) fertilizers
to our agricultural crops, which
ultimately causes nitrogen pollution
to our ecosphere. The atmosphere
is polluted by N2O and NOx
gas...
by Allen G Good | On 17 Aug 2011 The role played by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the banking system in India in strengthening education system. Realizing the importance of education for the economic development and the overall liv...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 10 Aug 2011 Review of
Gourmets in the Land of Famine: The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton Seung-joon Lee; Stanford University Press, 2011. 320 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-7226-6.
H-Net R...
by Edward Melillo | On 07 Aug 2011 Parliament meets for the Monsoon Session between August 01 and September 08, 2011. There will
be a total of 26 sittings.
The agenda for government Bills includes 35 pending Bills for consideration...
by Kusum Malik | On 01 Aug 2011 This paper reviews India.s low-carbon high growth inclusive
policy initiatives, comments on their financial sustainability and
environmental sustainability and suggests desirable changes. The focus...
by U. Sankar | On 29 Jul 2011 The paper begins with an overview of fertiliser consumption trends and then identifies important determinants of fertiliser demand and develops projects demand scenarios for fertilisers in India in 20...
by Vijay Paul Sharma | On 29 Jul 2011 In this paper, the overall goal is to examine the impact of the Rural
Primary School Merger Program on academic performance of students using a dataset from a
survey that we designed to reflect tran...
by Alexis Medina | On 27 Jul 2011 In this paper the evolution of beer consumption is analyzed between countries and over time. Historically, there have been major changes in beer consumption in the world. In recent times, per
capita...
by Liesbeth Colen | On 18 Jul 2011 A documentation of different aspects of human deprivation in the old age other than the
measurement of income poverty is done. Aspects of economic, health and social aspects of
deprivation and how i...
by Syam Prasad | On 14 Jul 2011 This study was not alone in demonstrating that a deal on the Doha Round
could be of huge benefit to the global economy. Assuming plausible
enhancements in the course of further negotiations, the big...
by Klaus Deutsch | On 06 Jul 2011 This paper considers the potential role of marriage in improving labor market outcomes through the expansion of an individuals' networks. The impact of a father-in-law on a young man's career using pa...
by Shing-Yi Wang | On 05 Jul 2011 The the population dynamics of the 21st century is shown here.
by Sanjeev Sanyal | On 21 Jun 2011 The Indian economy reached the trillion US dollar GDP milestone in 2007 and joined other countries of the trillion dollar club, namely, the US, UK, Japan, Germany, China, France, Italy, Spain, Canada,...
by Chakrabarty K C | On 21 Jun 2011 The slowdown and in some years reversal of poverty reduction in China forcefully demonstrates that growth is not sufficient for combating poverty even if that growth is of unprecedented magnitude. Pol...
by Guanghua Wan | On 16 Jun 2011 A closer look at the developments in 35 cities across
China, looking for potential regional real estate bubbles. An assessment is done about the success of the various policies and
their potential n...
by Ulrich Clemens | On 02 Jun 2011 Good public infrastructure management means more than increasing
the quantity of infrastructure stocks; it also involves improving the
quality of infrastructure. This study seeks to document the...
by Chengfang Liu | On 25 May 2011 The rise of China in the world economy and in international trade has raised the
possibility of a rise of the Yuan as an international currency, particularly after the
Chinese authorities have under...
by Vimal Balasubramaniam | On 05 May 2011 In 2010 and 2011, there has been a fresh wave of interest in cap-
ital controls. India is one of the few large countries with a complex
system of capital controls, and hence others an opportunity to...
by Ila Patnaik | On 21 Apr 2011 Unique survey data is used to study whether the introduction of local elections in China
made local leaders more accountable towards local constituents. A simple model is developed
to predict the e...
by Monica Martinez Bravo | On 18 Apr 2011 This paper explores the competitive threat posed by the People’s Republic of China to markets
in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It focuses on the impact of PRC’s rise as a major
exporter of...
by Sanjaya Lall | On 05 Apr 2011 For decades until the crisis hit in mid-1997, East Asian economies led
the developing world in achieving high rates of economic growth,
accomplishing what had come to be known as the East Asian Mira...
by Asian Development Bank Institute | On 30 Mar 2011 This paper discusses the banking regulatory and supervisory practices in People’s Republic of China (PRC) with reference to the international standard for banking supervision, namely, the Basel Core P...
by Luo Ping | On 28 Mar 2011 At the end of 2004, the macroeconomic balance in the People’s
Republic of China (PRC) raises some interesting options. The external sector
enjoys a huge surplus, with significant increases in the cu...
by Toshiki Kanamori | On 25 Mar 2011 In recent years, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as the world’s largest
recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI). Many analysts and government officials in the
developing world...
by Busakorn Chantasasawat | On 22 Mar 2011 This Policy Brief focuses on links between the developing countries of Brazil, India, China and South Africa and the global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China’s spectacular...
by Amelia U. Santos Paulino | On 11 Mar 2011 The Chin State of Burma (also known as Myanmar) is an isolated ethnic minority area with poor health
outcomes and reports of food insecurity and human rights violations. A report on a population-base...
by Richard Sollom | On 09 Mar 2011 Infectious diseases are still recognized as severe public health problems at present in China,
especially in poor rural areas. About 24% of total disease burden in terms of DALYs was
attributed to i...
by Qingyue Meng | On 08 Mar 2011 There is no doubt that part of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to
the People’s Republic of China (PRC) FDI belongs to the return of Chinese
capital that has gone abroad. The World Bank and o...
by Xiao Geng | On 08 Mar 2011 The multidisciplinary research project on the Forest in the North and the South, organised by UNU-WIDER, shows that, in spite of modest forest expansions in the North, the ongoing deforestation of the...
by Patrick Humphreys | On 28 Feb 2011 India and China are important players in an evolving process of
globalization of research and development (R&D). Focusing on
pharmaceuticals and biotechnology industries, this paper analyses the
ch...
by Jayan Jose Thomas | On 28 Feb 2011 The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a relative latecomer to
modern industry and is—by most standards—a highly successful
one. Its market-oriented reforms have produced remarkable
results: the m...
by Tracy Yang | On 23 Feb 2011 Sharp increase in house prices combined with the extraordinary lending growth in
Mainland China during 2009 has led to concerns of an emerging real estate bubble. We find that, for China as a whole...
by Ashvin Ahuja | On 19 Feb 2011 This Policy Brief is based on the articles originally appearing in the Perspectives series of ADB Institute’s e-Newsline from March 2005 to March 2006. This is also regarded as a continuation of Polic...
by Toshiki Kanamori | On 18 Feb 2011 Since the government announced the Revitalise the North East policy in 2002 there has
been a new focus to regional policy following on from the previous, but continuing, Develop
the West policy. For...
by John Weiss | On 17 Feb 2011 This paper estimates the long run impact of famine on survivors in the context of
China's Great Famine. To address problems of measurement error of famine exposure and
potential endogeneity of famin...
by Xin Meng | On 16 Feb 2011 Australia’s engagement with, and serious study of, China is not a recent
phenomenon. It has been a strong part of our heritage, as this lecture series
amply demonstrates. But this does not mean that...
by Kevin Rudd | On 10 Feb 2011 The paper provides an assessment of India’s role in the final years of the civil war in Sri Lanka (2003‐2009). In particular, it looks for explanations for India’s in...
by Sandra Destradi | On 10 Feb 2011 The 6th Session of the First Parliament commenced on the auspicious 13th Day of 10th Month of Iron Male Tiger Year corresponding to November 19, 2010 with Zhugdrel Phuensum Tshogpai ceremony where His...
by Jigme Tshultim | On 08 Feb 2011 The following bills were resolved to be passed with corrections: The Child Care and Protection Bill; Penal Code Amendment Bill; Anti Corruption Act 2010; and others
by Jigme Tshultim | On 08 Feb 2011 Since the beginning of the second quarter of 2009, Asia has
staged an impressive recovery. The People’s Republic of China
(PRC), Indonesia, Republic of Korea, and Singapore grew by an
average annua...
by Yung Chul Park | On 07 Feb 2011 As in recent years, the major risks for emerging market economies in 2011 will come not from the
policies and actions of the countries themselves, but from developments in advanced economies. There...
by Liliana Rojas Suarez | On 03 Feb 2011 As the conception of and debates on regional powers have been led by political science, this paper aims to contribute to the discussion from an economics perspective. Based on the discussion of differ...
by Robert KAppel | On 28 Jan 2011 This paper constructs and analyses a long-run time-series for regional inequality in
China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of
inequality in the last fifty...
by Ravi Kanbur | On 17 Jan 2011 This study seeks to derive lessons from the French nuclear energy experience that can be
used to guide the Indian programme as it steps on the pedal to fast track nuclear expansion. [Occasional Paper...
by Manpreet Sethi | On 13 Jan 2011 In this paper they use large survey data sets of firms provided by the World Bank for China, India,
and Brazil—Investment Climate Surveys—to address the important question: what
determines the loc...
by Kala Seetharam Sridhar | On 12 Jan 2011 In the last 30 years, China has achieved high economic growth and successfully
transformed its economy from a planned economy to a market-based system. The
country, to a large extent, has attaine...
by Yang Yao | On 10 Jan 2011 This paper proposes a structural VAR model which extends the frameworks of
Hoffmaister and Roldós (2001) and Prasad (1999). The model is then used to analyse
the sources of China’s trade balance flu...
by Yin Zhang | On 07 Jan 2011 Using a CGE model, PRCGEM, with an updated 2002 I/O table, this paper explores
how earnings will be affected in each of 40 separate industries across 31 regions (or 8
regional blocks) of China for...
by Jiao Wang | On 05 Jan 2011 The financial intermediation–growth nexus is a widely studied topic in the literature of
development economics. Deepening financial intermediation may promote economic
growth by mobilizing more...
by Jun Zhang | On 03 Jan 2011 This paper proposes a semi-parametric method for poverty decomposition, which
combines the data-generating procedure of Shorrocks and Wan (2004) with the Shapley
value framework of Shorrocks (1999...
by Yin Zhang | On 29 Dec 2010 This paper investigates some major changes in the wealth distribution in China using
the data from two national household surveys conducted in 1995 and 2002. The surveys
collected rich informatio...
by Shi Li | On 27 Dec 2010 The paper discuses the differences tribals and government have in understanding of and perception about the forest. It also discuses the outcomes of these differences.
by M. Suresh | On 15 Dec 2010 Many countries remain stuck in conditions of low productivity that many call “poverty traps.” Economic growth
is only one aspect of development; another key dimension of development is the expansion...
by Lant Pritchett | On 15 Dec 2010 The very rapid economic growth of the People’s Republic of China (henceforth PRC), its dramatic
success in world export markets and its heavy receipts of foreign direct investment (FDI) have
generat...
by John Weiss | On 10 Dec 2010 The paper argues that if the Chinese economy had failed, mainstream economics would have described this as completely predictable, given the extent and nature of involvement of the Chinese state in th...
by Kaushik Basu | On 06 Dec 2010 Open regionalism and trade cooperation between the world’s two largest developing countries,
the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and India, can foster outward-oriented development and
intra-regio...
by Swapan K. Bhattacharya | On 06 Dec 2010 There has been much debate about how much poor people in developing countries gain
from trade openness, as one aspect of ‘globalization’. The paper views the issue through
both ‘macro’ and ‘micro’...
by Martin Ravallion | On 02 Dec 2010 The report provides an assessment of impact of climate change in 2030s on four key sectors in four climate sensitive regions of India.
by Ministry of Environment and Forests GOI | On 01 Dec 2010 Colonial judges and jurists interpreted matrilineal customs in
terms of a theory of matrilineal law, which they shaped in the process of
interpretation, rather than on the basis of existing practice...
by Praveena Kodoth | On 18 Nov 2010 China’s recent accession to the WTO is expected to accelerate its integration into the
world economy, which aggravates concerns over the impact of globalization on the
already rising inter-region in...
by Guanghua Wan | On 16 Nov 2010 In recent years, China has dramatically expanded its financing and foreign direct investment to Africa. This
expansion has served the political and economic interests of China while providing Africa...
by Benedicte Vibe Christensen | On 15 Nov 2010 This article views the four economies of the South in a long run historical perspective of
1500-2000. It contrasts the history and the initial endowments of the two Northern
hemisphere economies C...
by Meghnad Desai | On 15 Nov 2010 China is not only on the path to Great Power status, it also means to exercise its newfound muscle. What is difficult to understand is why it wants to behave like a rogue power when the world would wa...
by T.N. Ninan | On 05 Nov 2010 This paper estimated the pass-through effects of yuan’s exchange rates on prices of the US and Japanese imports from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Empirical results show that, a 1% nominal app...
by Yuqing Xing | On 04 Nov 2010 This paper investigates the prevailing financial regulatory structures and impact of the current financial turmoil on banking performance in four Asian economies: the People's Republic of China (PRC);...
by Chen-Min Hsu | On 03 Nov 2010 The present paper compares the strategies, capacity building processes and outcomes/impacts of three projects during the period 2005-10. The project area covered by the study are located as follows:
...
by Neela Mukherjee | On 29 Oct 2010 The development path that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has been following during the past thirty years has led to both internal and external economic imbalances, and is now greatly challenged...
by Ming Lu | On 29 Oct 2010 International trade has played an essential role in Asia’s remarkable growth, development,
and integration in recent decades. Infrastructure, both hard and soft, has played an integral
part in facil...
by Douglas H. Brooks | On 28 Oct 2010 This paper argues that the Republic of Korea (hereafter Korea) is not immune to global crises, but that a more than proportional response of gross domestic product to global crises does not seem to be...
by Dongchul Cho | On 25 Oct 2010 The Mekong is under threat. The governments of Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand
are considering plans to build eleven big hydropower dams on the Mekong River’s
lower mainstream. If built, these dams wou...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 19 Oct 2010 The three issues laid out in today’s agenda are particularly relevant at this juncture
and how we answer them in the months ahead will determine how the world
regains and then sustains economic grow...
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 18 Oct 2010 This paper unveils a systematic pattern in the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC)
processing trade. In a cross-section of the PRC’s provinces, the average distance traveled
by processing imports (...
by Alyson C. Ma | On 18 Oct 2010 This paper attempts to analyse the economic implications of the rise of China, India,
Brazil and South Africa, for developing countries situated in the wider context of the
world economy. It exami...
by Deepak Nayyar | On 15 Oct 2010 The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as a major player in the global economy and considers free trade agreements (FTAs) an important part of its global trading strategy. The PRC’s export i...
by Yunling Zhang | On 12 Oct 2010 China’s consumers are better understood when looked at as two distinct classes: urban consumers and rural consumers. The urban households are much richer than their rural counterparts and consume thre...
by Syetarn Hansakul | On 12 Oct 2010 They conduct an experimental study to investigate the causal impact of social identity on individuals' response to economic incentives. They focus on China‟s decades old household registration...
by Farzana Afridi | On 08 Oct 2010 This paper examines fiscal policy issues in the Republic of Korea (hereafter Korea) after the 2009 global financial crisis, including the timing of fiscal policy responses, the effectiveness of expans...
by Kiseok Hong | On 07 Oct 2010 This report studies the ongoing resettlement for the middle route of the South-North Water
Transfer Project at Danjiangkou in Hubei Province, China. The Water Transfer Project is China’s
biggest wat...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 30 Sep 2010 This paper considers the choices facing the Asian tiger economies regarding growth
strategies that foster trans-Pacific rebalancing. A review of historical data spanning 2000 to
2008 reveals only...
by Hwee Kwan Chow | On 30 Sep 2010 We study firms’ advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet
job board, and interpret these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model
allows us to dis...
by Peter Kuhn | On 28 Sep 2010 This paper studies the impact of taxation on poverty and ex ante vulnerability of households
in rural China based on national household survey data in 1988, 1995 and 2002. It has been
confirmed that...
by Katsushi S. Imai | On 21 Sep 2010 This paper focuses on comparisons of productivity, (unit) labor cost and industry-level competitiveness for the manufacturing sector of China and India. They first provide a comparison between India a...
by Bart Van Ark | On 20 Sep 2010 This study provides an in-depth assessment of Concentrating solar power (CSP) potential in China and
India using high-resolution spatial data for site selection and modeling of plant performance, ass...
by Kevin Ummel | On 03 Sep 2010 For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India by Anjali R. Arondekar; Duke
University Press, Durham; 2009. xii + 215 pp. 74.95 (cloth),21.95 (paper).
by Durba Ghosh | On 31 Aug 2010 This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to
2006. After decomposing the variance of log of earnings into transitory and permanent two
parts, we find that...
by Zhong Zhao | On 23 Aug 2010 Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper
focuses on purchasing power estimates in China and India in the 2005 round of the
UN International Comparison Programme (I...
by Alan Heston | On 20 Aug 2010 The depth and breadth of the East Asian financial crisis has
added a sense of acute urgency for some concrete and credible
measures by policy-makers to revitalise the Japanese economy.
While steps...
by Ramkishen Rajan | On 23 Jul 2010 Two features of East Asia’s recovery from the financial turmoil of 1997-
98 appear to be rather paradoxical. First, the regional economies (except
Hong Kong, China and Malaysia) have allowed a relat...
by Ramkishen S. Rajan | On 20 Jul 2010 Enormous trade surpluses are problematic for the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the
rest of the world. They primarily stem from processing trade. This paper investigates how
exchange rate ch...
by Willem Thorbecke | On 30 Jun 2010 Since its emergence before the Cancun Ministerial in September 2003, the Group of 20 developing countries (which includes South Africa, India, China, Indonesia, Thailand and Pakistan) has become an im...
by Prabhash Ranjan | On 21 Jun 2010 Prior to the Asian financial crisis, most Asian exchange rates were de facto pegged
to the US Dollar. In the crisis, many economies experienced a brief period of extreme flexibility. A `fear of float...
by Ila Patnaik | On 18 Jun 2010 Vietnam's (re) discovery in recent years by the international investor community gives the country a second chance to become and Asia tiger. The article looks into the economic, social, political, per...
by Tamara Trinh | On 16 Jun 2010 The paper excavates how the advent of commercial audiography, through 'Recording Expeditions' between 1902 and 1907, shaped configurations of the nascent business in, and culture around, 'music on rec...
by Vibodh Parthasarathi | On 16 Jun 2010 They are providing systematic evidence that intermediaries play an important role in facilitating trade using a firm-level the census of China's exports. Intermediaries account for around 20% of China...
by Jaebin Ahn | On 14 Jun 2010 This paper intends first to give a brief overview of the rise and growth of some of those separatist groups, with a special focus on the Nagas, the Mizos and the Assam movement.
An analysis of the de...
by Renaud Egreteau | On 10 Jun 2010 This paper reviews the development of the social security system and trends in the urban labor market in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Despite its remarkable economic achievement, the PRC face...
by Wang Dewen | On 20 May 2010 Is Asia a cohesive analytical unit in any practical sense?
by T.N. Ninan | On 17 May 2010 Review of Spatialising Politics: Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka.
Catherine Brun and Tariq Jazeel (Editors).
Sage Publications, New Delhi;
2009, 260 pp, Rs. 695.
by Anandi Dantas | On 04 May 2010 The purpose of this study to help shed light on the entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs and enterprise growth in
Wenzhou. The study is done by relying on a probabilistic firm survey that we carried out i...
by John Strauss | On 08 Apr 2010 A reduced form model
where banks can pursue other goals than profit maximization is presented. This allows us to test
for behavioral changes of banks over time. This model provides a framework to
e...
by Xiaoqiang Cheng | On 23 Feb 2010 Capital account openness and exchange rate flexibility in 11 Asian countries are examined. Asia has made slow progress on de jure capital account openness,
but has made much more progress on de facto...
by Ila Patnaik | On 04 Feb 2010 In this paper the issue of indirect tax reform,
with a special focus on customs duty reform is examined. [WP]
by Arvind Virmani | On 28 Jan 2010 India is a stable democratic political system with rising economic fortunes and global ambitions make it a potential power that could play a very important role in world affairs. But India has to tack...
by Teresita C Schaffer | On 15 Jan 2010 Discusses about the different poverty measuements.
by T.N. Ninan | On 22 Dec 2009 China and India have both attempted distorting the exchange rate in order to foster exports-led growth. This is described as the Bretton Woods II framework, where developing countries buy bonds in the...
by Ila Patnaik | On 30 Nov 2009 The time may have come to stop thinking of five-year plans, and to focus instead on 10- and 20-year scenarios.
by T.N. Ninan | On 23 Nov 2009 This paper mainly addresses the economic dimensions, concentrating on the importance of international trade to state-building and the need for global public goods in a global market economy. The focu...
by Tony Addison | On 23 Nov 2009 Questions about Chinese aid—how large it is and how fast it is growing; how decisions are made on how much aid is provided each year; which countries receive it and how much they get; how the aid is m...
by Carol Lancaster | On 10 Nov 2009 This joint paper attempts an unusual collaborative approach that offers an understanding of the problems that registered nurses of India have faced. Through this paper, the problem of ‘social status’...
by Sreelekha Nair | On 10 Nov 2009 The repo rate has been kept unchanged at 4.75%. The reverse repo rate left steady at 3.25%. The bank rate has been retained unchanged at 6.0%. The cash reserve ratio (CRR) of scheduled banks has been...
by D Subbarao | On 27 Oct 2009 The government simply has to find a way to deliver the basics. That is what will defeat the Maoists and hold off China.
by T.N. Ninan | On 27 Oct 2009 China’s economy is booming at the expense of its environment. The country’s resource efficiency is nowhere near the level of western nations. Per unit of gross domestic product China consumes more tha...
by Eric Heymann | On 22 Oct 2009 The paper discusses the impacts of climate change to the environment of China and most especially to the livelihood of Chinese people there. It analyzed the Chinese government’s position and enumerate...
by Dale Jiajun Wen | On 16 Oct 2009 Did you know that there has been no warming of the globe over the past decade?
by T.N. Ninan | On 16 Oct 2009 The paper discusses the impacts of free-trade policy on the agricultural exports of Kerala.
by Ranjit Devraj | On 08 Oct 2009 The emergence of a large and dynamic middle class raises Asia’s profile as an attractive market destination for products ranging from consumer goods to financial services. There are even hopes that th...
by Steffen Dyck | On 06 Oct 2009 This new report discusses the experience with environmental standards and how it can be useful for new financiers. It contains ten papers written by experts from civil society, financial institutions...
by International Rivers Network IRN | On 01 Oct 2009 Private practice in the health sector was re-introduced from 1980, when China began its economic reform from a planned economy to a market economy. But today the total number of private sector provide...
by Ying Bian | On 30 Sep 2009 There is a growing recognition that global warming is a problem, but little attention
has been paid to the likely impact at the country level, especially in the developing
world. The stakes for worl...
by William R Cline | On 23 Sep 2009 India is home to fantastic water harvesting traditions that have evolved over millennia. The central western Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand are no exceptions to these traditions....
by People's Science Institute PSI | On 21 Sep 2009 The best economic news of the past two years can be that the worst recession in 80 years may be over.
by T.N. Ninan | On 31 Aug 2009 Despite the negative impact of the current crisis and many
remaining uncertainties about the actual economic recovery path,
the medium-term outlook for Hong Kong’s banks remains
favourable.
by Robert Mülhaupt | On 15 Jul 2009 The paper attempts to analyse the emerging contours of regulation of financial institutions with an emphasis on the emerging challenges and dynamics. [Paper prepared for Financial Stability Review of...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 29 Jun 2009 The study uses co-integration and vector auto-regression (VAR) techniques to identify the determinants of income velocity of money (VM) in Bangladesh, covering both narrow and broad money. The study o...
by Md. Akhtaruzzaman | On 15 Jun 2009 This paper deals with the nationalist discourse in Maharashtra spanning over forty years. This discourse argued that educating women and non-Brahmins would amount to a loss of nationality. The nationa...
by Parimala V Rao | On 11 Jun 2009 China’s experience demonstrates the importance of technological development and public investment in improving agricultural productivity, farmer income, and food security in a nation with limited supp...
by Jikun Huang | On 07 Jun 2009 This essay mainly examines the relationship between feminism and nationalism as a point from which it looks at South Asian feminist scholarship. The historical circumstances in their respective countr...
by Uma Chakravarti | On 03 Jun 2009 China and India, Asia's two largest and most dynamic societies, have come to be important players in regional and global decision-making. Both countries have had their share of experience in colonial...
by Swaran Singh | On 03 Jun 2009 Despite the rapid development of economic interaction between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, their trade and investment ties are still in their...
by Masahiro Kawai | On 20 May 2009 Multinational companies exercise their impact on the economic development of the host countries and regions through Foreign Direct Investments (FDI). The host countries tap the benefits from these FDI...
by Filip De Beule | On 15 May 2009 In this article hard realities of people’s health in India today, and some of the maladies of recent health
policies are examined. This is followed by core recommendations to strengthen and
reorient...
by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan JSS | On 08 May 2009 This paper discusses if the Olymipic Games presented a change- not change along the lines of South Koreas leap towards democracy after the Seol Olympics, but some small shift- and how the nature of it...
by Jane Macartney | On 05 May 2009 Presentation shows the global financial crisis, the difference between US, Europe and India, RBI’s policy response and impact, lessons from the crisis, medium-term issues and challenges. [Speech deliv...
by Rakesh Mohan | On 29 Apr 2009 The
paper’s focus is on successful Chinese policies that can be emulated by other countries to an extent (within certain bounds) which mentined in the article. The author is not trying to draw lesson...
by Arvind Virmani | On 22 Apr 2009 The main question that the Governor is asking to the RBI staff is "how can I do my job better so that I can make a positive difference to the country?"
by Duvvuri Subbarao | On 08 Apr 2009 FEER, April 2009 Table of Contents
by FEER | On 06 Apr 2009 This paper argues that it is becoming increasingly difficult for
most developing countries to achieve rapid growth through industrialization, and especially through export oriented activities. But th...
by Peter Sheehan | On 03 Feb 2009 The pharmaceutical industry is expanding worldwide. For some years now, it has been benefiting from the particular dynamics of the Asian economies as both purchasers and producers. It is not only the...
by Uwe Perlitz | On 12 Dec 2008 Using product-level data on exports from different cities within China, this paper investigates the contributing factors to the rising export sophistication. [WP no. 226].
by Zhi Wang | On 26 Nov 2008 This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty...
by Li Shi | On 18 Nov 2008 Taiwan is an incredible success story and it is time that the US, and the new President elect Barak Obama, take a lead in renewing relations with the country.
by Paul Wolfowitz | On 10 Nov 2008 The paper starts by recapitulating the basic arguments provided by economic theory to explain the existence of the patent system. The paper then concentrates on the three important ICT industries viz....
by C Niranjan Rao | On 30 Oct 2008 This paper uses the standard one-sector neoclassical growth model to investigate why China’s consumption has been low and investment high. This paper looks into the role played by the financial sector...
by Jahangir Aziz | On 07 Oct 2008 The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is revisited using 1987-1995 data for Chinese provinces.
by Catherine Yap Co | On 29 Sep 2008 India, the largest economy of South Asia, has recently announced its National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). This is of special significance given the mounting pressure on fast growing economi...
by Centre for Trade and Development CENTAD | On 22 Sep 2008 Liping argues from a Chinese perspective for a continued role of the NPT as the main nuclear non proliferation mechanism, but also identifies its main shortfalls and conflicts of interest between majo...
by Xia Liping | On 09 Sep 2008 The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals that while much has already been achieved in both these economies, the Chinese re...
by Przemyslaw Kowalski | On 09 Sep 2008 The emergence of China and India as economic giants has impacted the influence of Malaysia. Despite its remarkable economic and social success, Malaysia’s three main races – Malays, Indians and Chines...
by Asian Centre for Human Rights ACHR | On 08 Sep 2008 India represents a sharp contrast to China in the small size of its goods trade. Although India’s GDP is a third that of China, its global trade is only about 12 percent as large while its trade with...
by Barry Bosworth | On 22 Aug 2008 This paper analyses the determinants of growth and profit behaviour of the Chinese and Indian IT Software firms.
by N.S. Siddharthan | On 30 Jul 2008 Table of Contents
Agriculture: More Pain Ahead for China’s Food Prices
Huang Jikun, Qiu Huanguan and Scott Rozelle, agricultural economists, show that expensive oil is driving China’s high food pric...
by FEER | On 18 Jun 2008 The earthquake has certainly revealed that NGOs can play a positive role, but the question of “deviation” is of greater concern to the ruling party and where the challenge will lie for these young org...
by Amy Gadsden | On 18 Jun 2008 In this Issue: Amar Jesani writes about the problems and process affecting health in Nicaragua; Malini Karkal discusses the population policy in China and Padma Prakash draws attention to the changes...
by Radical Journal of Health RJH | On 01 Jun 2008 Review of The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism by Erez Manel
For the full issue please see http://www.lrb.co.uk
by Pankaj Mishra | On 24 Feb 2008 Pankaj Mishra reviews
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism by Erez Manela
[Available on eSS]
Stephen Burt on Robert Creeley
And more
...
by London Review of Books LRB | On 24 Feb 2008 Pankaj Mishra reviews
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anti-Colonial Nationalism by Erez Manela
[Available on eSS]
Stephen Burt on Robert Creeley
And more
...
by London Review of Books LRB | On 24 Feb 2008 An analysis of the various parameters of manufacturing competitiveness of the Indian economy is provided. The paper notes that India is one of the leading producers and exporters of a number of commod...
by Lakshmanan L | On 19 Feb 2008 The paper compares policy responses of China and India to the global requirements of trade and environment regimes as well as the domestic compulsions are compared.
by Sankar U | On 11 Feb 2008 Shows how the macro economic variables of Indian Economy are performing.
by P Chidambaram | On 11 Feb 2008 The political strategies of India and China
by T.N. Ninan | On 11 Feb 2008 The work of the IPCC has helped the world to learn more on all aspects of climate change, and the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has acknowledged this fact. [Speech delivered in Oslo]
by Pachauri R K | On 04 Feb 2008 This paper discusses the emerging contradictions that may have serious implications for the sustainable growth and performance of China’s rubber industry in the era of internal restructuring and globa...
by Viswanathan P K | On 30 Jan 2008 This paper focuses on both expanding and refining the analytical scope of the “social” (or non-economic) aspects of chronic poverty, and thereby, to enhance efforts to respond more effectively to it....
by Michael Woolcock | On 25 Jan 2008 This study analyses the changes in prevalence of undernutrition between the 1980s and 1990s at the national and sub-national levels in India and focuses on the rural-urban comparisons. The study explo...
by Meenakshi J V | On 17 Jan 2008 Three years ago Yahoo!, Intel, Nokia and Ericsson, formed the Beijing Association of Online Media (BAOM) ostensibly to ensure a check on media content especially pertaining to pornography, etc. Today...
by David Bandurski | On 10 Jan 2008 Essays: Pulling the Strings of China’s Internet By David Bandurski
Bling! Bang! Boom! China’s Stocks Zoom By Jonathan Anderson
Is Wal-Mart Good for Asia? By Greg Rushford
Retaining the Loyalty of X...
by FEER | On 10 Jan 2008 With the 19th century drain, no one was certain if the benefit exceeded
the cost and since the rulers were foreign the suspicion was that any investment they made was not beneficial. But the lesson f...
by Lord Meghnad Desai | On 25 Dec 2007 Chindia isa word that came up recently. There are comparisons between the two countries about their economic growth. But there are differences between the two countries.
by T.N. Ninan | On 13 Dec 2007 The EFA Global Monitoring Report offers an authoritative reference for comparing
the experiences of countries, understanding the positive impact of specific policies
and recognizing that progress ha...
by UNESCO Publishing | On 05 Dec 2007 The United Nations Development Programme has just put out its latest Human Development Report, containing the human development index (HDI) for 177 countries, with the data being for 2005. India ranks...
by T.N. Ninan | On 03 Dec 2007 Asia’s Bill of Health:
A REVIEW Focus On Health Care
Pakistan’s Last Bid for Democracy
By Colum Murphy
Pakistan:
Defusing Pakistan’s Tribal Rebellion
By Shaukat Qadir
Taiwan:
The Father of Tai...
by FEER | On 27 Nov 2007 One of the burning issues at the moment relates to increasing the “voice” or representation of emerging-market economies in international financial institutions such as the IMF and World Bank. There a...
by Mboweni T.T. | On 13 Nov 2007 The present paper analyzes the possibilities of Traditional Chinese Medicine to become a perfect medicine.
by Qian Jia | On 12 Nov 2007 Recognising the growing activity in the non deliverable forward (NDF) market in the recent years, the paper attempts to present a detailed analysis of the NDF market with special focus on Indian rupee...
by Sangita Misra | On 22 Oct 2007 A monthly compilation by IRIS.
by IRIS India IRIS | On 22 Oct 2007 Even after five years of after the liberalisation of the investment regime India has failed to attract FDI to come to the mining sector. In the last decade, many developing countries have significantl...
by Planning Commission, India | On 18 Oct 2007 As we celebrate 60 years of political independence and take pride in our dynamic private sector, our remarkable IT successes and all the other usual dimensions of success, let us remind ourselves that...
by Shankar Acharya | On 08 Oct 2007 Government has done a lot for the development of textile industry. But India is not at all doing well in the international markets compared to countries like China and Bangladesh. Government has not d...
by T.N. Ninan | On 24 Sep 2007 Main Articles
Women's Stories, Discourse, and "the Power of Feelings" in China: A Case from a Muslim Neighborhood
Maris GILLETTE
Speaking Bitter-Sweetness: China's Urban Elderly in the Reform Peri...
by Anthropology Department Chinese University of Hong Kong | On 07 Sep 2007 Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism by Jyoti Hosagrahar; Routledge,New York; 2005. xiii + 234 pp., $43.95 (paper).
by Amita Sinha | On 23 Aug 2007 A talk with Nobel economics laureate Robert Mundell on how Beijing can keep the yuan’s value fixed and still avoid inflation. China’s high balance of payments surplus and pressure on the yuan could be...
by Hugo Restall | On 04 Aug 2007 Satisfuy China's Demand for Money by Hugo Restall
Monetary Policy: China’s Last Option: Let the Yuan Soar by Michael Pettis
Stop the Specter of a Rising Rupee by Vivek Moorthy
Hong Kong’s Arreste...
by FEER | On 04 Aug 2007 Review of
Foreign Capital Inflows to China, India and the Caribbean: Trends, Assessments and Determinants by Arindam Banik and Pradip K. Bhaumik; Palgrave-Macmillan, London.
by Anurag Kaushik | On 13 Jul 2007 Despite the major uncertainties mentioned at the beginning that afflict both dimensions of climate change, this analysis has demonstrated a clear trend: the regulatory-market economy dimension of clim...
by Eric Heymann | On 13 Jul 2007 Review of High-Tech Industries in China by Chien-Hsun Chen and Hui-
Tzu Shih. RBI Occasional Papers, Vol. 27, No. 1 and 2, Summer and Monsoon 2006.
by Brijesh Pazhayathodi | On 05 Jul 2007 Review of Public Finance in Developing and Transitional Countries by
Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and James Alm in RBI Occasional Papers, Vol. 27, No. 1 and 2, Summer and Monsoon 2006.
by Jai Chander | On 05 Jul 2007 The lecture focuses on some implications -- both positive and normative -- of the most surprising development in the international financial system over the last half dozen years. That development is...
by Lawrence H. Summers | On 05 Jul 2007 Humanism is defined to mean: any system which puts human interests and the mind of man paramount; non-religious philosophy based on liberal values; tendency to civilise; and compassion. Tarkunde satis...
by J. S. Verma | On 28 May 2007 - What would post-autistic trade policy be?
Alan Goodacre (UK)
On the need for a heterodox health economics : Robert McMaster (University of Aberdeen, UK)
- True cost environment...
by PAER Post Autistic Economic Review | On 17 Apr 2007 Economic growth in China and India is exponentially increasing the global
demand for skills. In turn, this will cause a severe talent shortage in
the world over the next few years. What does this...
by Sanjeev Sanyal | On 02 Apr 2007 Opposing views persist with regard to the emergence of plantations
in southern India and the transfer of slave labour to these plantations: the abolition of slavery as an end in itself and, second, a...
by K. Ravi Raman | On 02 Mar 2007 The objective of universal access to good quality, appropriate healthcare, envisaged over half a century ago at the dawn of Independence, today remains unrealised. Public health haseffectively remaine...
by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan | On 16 Feb 2007 This paper compares and contrasts the performance of India and China in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). Both economies are large emerging markets that had rather similar profiles in 1978....
by John S Henley | On 22 Dec 2006 China and India have one of the largest telecommunications equipment markets in the world. The paper employs a sectoral system of innovation framework towards understanding the differential outcomes i...
by Sunil Mani | On 19 Dec 2006 This paper discusses the integration of religious minorities in China, in particular, of the Hui Muslims. From the pre-Islamic relations between Arabia and China, to the Song period, the Mongol period...
by Donald Daniel Leslie | On 14 Dec 2006 Taking into account the latest data of exports of textiles and clothing to the European Union from South Asia and China, a year-end assessment of the impact of the Generalised System of Preferences (...
by C. Satapathy | On 14 Dec 2006 All foreign observers have interpreted China through the filter of their own era, as well as their personal background and experiences. A virtual academic industry has developed, not on China itself b...
by Beverley Hooper | On 14 Dec 2006 This paper uses aggregate and firm level data to examine the characteristics of
the Chinese pharmaceutical industry in general and its geographical agglomeration
in particular. It addresses the foll...
by Hayan Zhang | On 27 Nov 2006 Now that President Hu has finished a visit that is generally seen as having been useful but less than a triumph, and has hopped across to Pakistan to announce a free trade pact and faster growth in tr...
by T.N. Ninan | On 26 Nov 2006 This report examines Chinese labour market developments since 1990. The purpose of the report is to to review major shifts, to highlight important interactions between labour and other aspects of Chin...
by Thomas Rawski | On 23 Nov 2006 Fiscal incentive is closely related with extra budgetary revenues.This paper examines the impact of fiscal revenues under decentralisation on responsiveness of public goods provision to real local nee...
by Xin-Qiao Ping | On 21 Nov 2006 Reform in the People's Republic of China has seen a dramatic change in the discourse of localism, which has now moved from being a political crime to being a technique for encouraging entrepreneuriali...
by David S. G. Goodman | On 21 Nov 2006 Singapore’s Founding Myths vs. Freedomby Garry Rodan
The Charade of Meritocracyby Michael D. Barr
Financial Center Pipedreamsby Hugo Restall
Thailand:Bangkok’s Elitist Coupby Michael H. Nelson
Put...
by FEER | On 03 Nov 2006 Malaysia is finding it difficult to translate current favourable macro-economic environment, and the commodity boom into sustainable competitive advantage in manufacturing and services and to cope wit...
by Mukul Asher | On 03 Nov 2006 Malaysia is finding it difficult to translate current favourable macro-economic environment, and the commodity boom into sustainable competitive advantage in manufacturing and services and to cope wit...
by Mukul Asher | On 03 Nov 2006 Globalization, or integration with the world economy via WTO membership, was expected to increase foriegn investment and benefit the labour intensive manufacturing sector in China. Yet, although forei...
by Anita Chan | On 26 Oct 2006 To power national development, the government organized electricity
production and distribution as a state-owned vertically integrated utility, structured and operated under central planning. Electri...
by Chi Zang | On 25 Oct 2006 In the long term, there is little doubt that China will be better
off with a single and unified pension insurance system covering the whole
country, just as most of other countries do. In the short...
by Shaoguang Wang | On 25 Oct 2006 Decentralising health services – the transfer of power and responsibility from the central to the local level should help the poor if local resources, accountability and governance are in good shape....
by Hiroko Uchimura | On 25 Oct 2006 The most critical factor for maintaining regional stability in East Asia over the next few decades is the relations between the three great powers in the region: China, Japan and the United States. Th...
by Ezra F.Vogel | On 24 Oct 2006 This paper synthesises the different explanations and presents an overview of the development and characteristics of the Chinese rural enterprises (REs). The rural industrialization history of the Chi...
by Justin Yifu Lin | On 18 Oct 2006 In the 1980s the life and work of Chen Yinke, who had died in 1969 during the Cultural
Revolution, re-emerged in print. Chen was a former Tsinghua historian and an
intellectual luminary who had enj...
by Wen-hsin Yeh | On 18 Oct 2006 This book attempts to address how the tribes in India have perceived the State and its law. The tribes stand apart from the general population, and are made to stand outside the law, characterises the...
by Mayur Suresh | On 16 Oct 2006 As China has become an increasingly important part of the global trading system over the past two decades, interest in the country and its international economic policies has increased among internati...
by Lee Branstetter | On 13 Oct 2006 While talk of a 'China-India axis complete with 2.4 billion people' is no doubt fanciful, the progress in relations over the seven years following the nuclear crisis of 1998 is claiming the close atte...
by David A. Kelly | On 03 Oct 2006 This paper will explore the discursive practices surrounding specific
laws, trials, and the ideology of punishment in colonial and
independent India. The purpose is to show how through this matrix o...
by Ujjwal Kumar Singh | On 29 Aug 2006 Within the context of the mere posit of resistance, who is the remnant within the time of the now? Does the remnant include the postcolonial juridical subject as
the index of a cultural and political...
by Tawai Ansah | On 29 Aug 2006 This paper will examine the implications of the colonial construction
of criminality for our understanding of criminology and gender today.
by Sumanta Banerjee | On 29 Aug 2006 The cultural demands made of women by migrant communities struggling to establish a new identity and the stereotypes of women of other races often promoted by host communities are important forces in...
by Delia Davin | On 07 Jul 2006 The country’s export of automobiles has grown faster than software over the last four years. it does look as though automobile manufacture will be a new arrow in the country’s quiver. [Editorial . B...
by T.N. Ninan | On 03 May 2006 It does look as though automobile manufacture will be a new arrow in the country’s quiver. This may be hard to believe, when one looks at the strengths of the automobile industries in the US and Japa...
by T.N. Ninan | On 03 May 2006 Global outsourcing, technical change, and falling barriers to trade worldwide have
transformed the structure of production and global competition in the textile and apparel industry. This sector has...
by Meenu Tiwari | On 20 Apr 2006 A SWOT analysis of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry (IPI) in the WTO regime
reveals that the much acclaimed IPI’s expertise in process development skills
were made possible by the amendments made...
by N. Lalitha | On 28 Mar 2006 Why is underdevelopment so persistent? One explanation is that poor countries do not have institutions that can support growth. Because institutions (both good and bad) are persistent, underdevelopmen...
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 26 Mar 2006 An analysis of regional differences in the flow of FDI in China and India is important as in both these countries a few regions account for the bulk of FDI inflows. There are very few studies on regi...
by N.S. Siddharthan | On 23 Mar 2006 Much more than comparative advantage and free markets have been at play in shaping China's export success. Government policies have helped nurture domestic capabilities in consumer electronics and oth...
by Dani Rodrik | On 04 Mar 2006 Why has India has performed poorly in attracting export oriented foreign direct investment (EFDI) as compared to its peer groups such as China. The empirical literature on the location of EFDI indic...
by Jaya Prakash Pradhan | On 20 Feb 2006 Despite numerous empirical studies examining various facets of the topic, the degree of intraregional financial integration in East Asia remains a matter of vigorous debate. This paper offers a select...
by Tony Cavoli | On 07 Feb 2006 The article exposes the shortcomings of China’s stock markets and examines the failed attempts by the government to introduce meaningful stock-market reform. China has largely avoided major policy blu...
by Weijian Shan | On 07 Jan 2006 In many Asian countries the ratio of male to female population is higher than in the
West -- as high as 1.07 in China and India, and even higher in Pakistan. A number of authors (most notably Sen, 19...
by Emily Oster | On 27 Nov 2005 We explore the hypothesis that macroeconomic polices are influenced by political structure, through a systematic comparison of reform period macroeconomic policy choices and outcomes, in China and Ind...
by Ashima Goyal | On 23 Nov 2005 EU's response to the East Asian community has to take account of several dimensions including Issues and dynamics of East Asian regional cooperation and integration; Scenarios of regional Community-bu...
by Willem vd Geest | On 08 Nov 2005 China has adopted a wide-ranging program of pension reform since the late 1990s. The new pension system has replaced the pre-existing enterprise-based system. This paper analyzes the background of t...
by Minxin Pei | On 08 Nov 2005 China, as the most populous country in the world, is ageing rapidly. Against the background of dramatic demographic changes in this century, China’s current pension system is badly structured, and not...
by Yu-Wei Hu | On 22 Oct 2005 This paper aims to demonstrate that the economic behaviour of ordinary men and women in the pre-colonial Deccan was as much ‘capitalistic’ as that of similar agents in contemporary Europe. The differe...
by Neeraj Hatekar | On 21 Oct 2005 |