East Asian Economic Development: Two Demographic Dividends.

Population change and economic development: what have we learned from the East Asia experience?

Between 1960 and 1990, many East Asian countries experienced remarkable economic growth and rapid demographic change brought on by the onset of a precipitous drop in childbearing. The research summarised in this paper considers whether demographic change played an important role in the region’s economic success and whether fertility decline was a by-product of economic development or a response...

Openness, Growth, And Development: Evidence From A Panel Of East Asian Countries

The Major Determinants of Sustainable Development in Selected Pacific, East and West Asian Countries

Sustainable development is a Controversial concept which has been considered over the three decades. It is comprehensive development and includes all of dimensions as “economic’’, “social’’ and ‘‘environmental’’. In economic objective, it requires substantial economic change that can be brought about by investment and trade. They are effective factors of sustainable developm...

Evolution of the Asia-Pacific Trade Architecture: Stocktake and Future Outlook

APEC Study Centre, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand     Abstract:   One of the key sets of questions underlying Asia Pacific economic cooperation over the last decade has been over the nature and form of the regional trade architecture that would gradually emerge from the turmoil of the Asia-Pacific “noodle bowl” of bilateral and plurilateral FTAs, and how that architecture...

Fully aligned academic health centers: a model for 21st-century job creation and sustainable economic growth.

Alignment is the degree to which component parts of academic health centers (AHCs) work cohesively. Full alignment allows AHCs to act quickly and cohesively toward common goals and to take advantage of opportunities that present themselves, particularly where collaboration is essential. Maryland's two major AHCs-University of Maryland Medicine (UMM) and Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM)-have experie...