Description
This book addresses two general questions that have arisen as a result of the uneven rise of the various Asian economies in contemporary times. First, to lift people out of poverty and to improve the quality of their lives, how do we institute policies that will ensure economic growth in the different regions of Asia? Second, what can we do to ensure that the economic growth we seek is sustainable so that the regional economic development that emerges is broad-based, inclusive, and environmentally conscious? Specifically, this edited book will provide a unified perspective on regional growth and sustainable development in Asia by focusing on the above two broad questions. The book will emphasize dynamic modeling and it will illustrate the role that sound theoretical and empirical modeling of an intertemporal nature can play in shedding light on salient public policy questions concerning regional growth and sustainable development. The specific topics to be addressed in this book include growth accounting, natural resource use and management, the regulation of environmental externalities, geographic information systems, and regional climate change. The individual chapters in this book will be written by international experts who are also active researchers in their respective fields. Therefore, this book is highly recommended to all readers who seek an in-depth and up-to-date perspective on some of the most salient issues at the interface of regional growth and sustainable development in Asia.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Spatial Disparities and Poverty: The Case of Three Provinces in the Philippines.- 3. Decomposing Poverty Change in India: Within- and Between-Group Effects Across Regions, 2004-05 and 2009-10.- 4.Pathways Out of Rural Poverty and the Role of Agriculture in Four Rice-Ecosystems in the Rural Philippines.- 5. Reducing Petroleum Subsidy in Indonesia: An Inter-Regional General Equilibrium Analysis.- 6. An Evaluation of Energy-Environment-Economic Efficiency for Asian Countries: A Proposal for a Time-Series Target-Oriented DFM Model in Data Envelopment Analysis.- 7. Climate Change and Threats to Sustainability in South-East Asia: Dynamic Modeling Process for Malaysia.- 8. Learning About the Role of Market Microstructure from High Frequency Data on Asian Banks.- 9. Dynamic Macroeconomic Performance of Indian States: Some Post-Reform Evidence.- 10. Dynamic Impact of Population Ageing on Regional Economies in Korea Using a Recursive-Dynamic Interregional CGE-Population Model.- 11. Educational Attainment and Learning in India, 2004-2012.- 12. SME Participation in Global Production Networks: Analytical Issues and Evidence from Penang, Malaysia.- 13. The Internet in Nepal: WiMAX Broadband Service
