Restructuring in East Asia: trends, challenges and prospects

East Asian Production Networks – The Role and Contribution of SMEs

The Asia-Pacific region generates over half of global economic activity (54.2%) and about 43.7% of global trade, and is the most dynamic region in the global economy. At the core of this is an increasingly dynamic, vibrant and entrepreneurial small-medium sized enterprise sector. Advances in information and communications technology, market liberalisation and moves towards closer regional econo...

Prospects for Growth and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

T he effects of the crises of 1997–99, from East Asia to Russia and Brazil, persist in many aspects. In most developing countries growth remains weak and well below precrisis trends. Social dislocations are severe, and have increased not only in Asia but also in other affected countries. Progress in poverty reduction has stalled in the developing world at the end of the 1990s, and the number of...

Precipitation Trends Analysis in Southwest Asia during the Last Half Century

Precipitation is a climatic elements that have temporal - spatial distribution. In this research database of Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) with a resolution 0.5×0.5 degree for 50 year is used, that was constituted with dimensions of 12800*600. Temporal data are on the columns and pixels (spatial data) located on the rows. The results show an increasing trend in spring and fall ...

Recent fertility trends, policy responses and fertility prospects in low fertility countries of East and Southeast Asia

Membrane Science and Research in Asia and the Middle East: State of the Art and Perspectives

Asia and Middle East represent one of the most dynamic regions in the world which has experienced fast economic and technological growth. Access to clean and affordable water is essential for building resilience and maintaining human’s well-being and livelihood development in this region. Likewise, various energy resources are fundamental to support stable economic and social progress for bette...