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Asia-Pacific development journal. Vol. 7, No. 1, June 2000
(United Nations, 2000)
This issue of the Journal includes selected papers presented at the Seminar on the Potential for Establishing Growth Zones Encompassing Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, held in Dhaka on 21 and 22 September 1999.
Asia-Pacific development journal. Vol. 11, No. 2, December 2004
(United Nations, 2004)
This issue is devoted to an eclectic mix of topics. Nonetheless, all have the common property of relevance from the perspective of development policy issues currently facing the region. In the first paper the authors examine ...
Asia-Pacific development journal. Vol. 14, No. 2, December 2007
(United Nations, 2007)
<p>This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth in low-income countries in Asia. Estimates from standard growth regressions using data for 146 developing countries for the period 1970-2000 indicate that a ...
Asia-Pacific development journal. Vol. 10, No. 1, June 2003
(United Nations, 2003)
<p>Malaysia enjoyed high rates of growth in the early 1990s. The economic crisis that struck Malaysia in 1997 caught the country by surprise. Amidst the economic turmoil that shook the other South-East Asian countries, ...
Asia-Pacific development journal. Vol. 14, No. 1, June 2007
(United Nations, 2007)
Asia-Pacific development journal. Vol. 15, No. 1, June 2008
(United Nations, 2008)
<p>We review the literature on the relationship between agricultural trade
policy reform and poverty, and the results of recent detailed simulation studies applied to economies in the Asia-Pacific region. We then use the ...
Asia-Pacific development journal. Vol. 8, No. 2, December 2001
(United Nations, 2001)
In this issue, the Journal has five papers and two research notes on subjects reflecting different facets of economic development at both the macro and micro levels. They consist of an analysis of the impact of China’s ...
Asia-Pacific development journal. Vol. 12, No.1, June 2005
(United Nations, 2005)
The papers presented in this edition address several concerns raised by ESCAP member countries in managing the process of globalization.
Asia-Pacific development journal. Vol. 9, No. 2, December 2002
(United Nations, 2002)
The debate on what would be an appropriate exchange rate regime for a developing country operating a semi-open economy, i.e. whether the exchange rate should be primarily fixed or primarily floating, has never been ...
Asia-Pacific development journal. Vol. 7, No. 2, December 2000
(United Nations, 2000)
<p>This paper presents five major paradoxes and anomalies that characterise
recent economic phenomena in the world, viz. (i) the paradox of growth and stability, (ii) the immiserizing effects of structural adjustment, ...