This study describes the effect of pollution transport between East Asia and South Asia on tropospheric ozone (O3) using model results from the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution (TF HTAP). Ensemble mean O3 concentrations are evaluated against satellite-data and ground observations of surface O3 at four stations in India. Although modeled surface O3 concentrations are 1020ppb ...

What are the problems?  Current food systems in the South-East Asian region are unsustainable in the context of both supply and demand of food.  The ‘double burden of disease’, where undernutrition and obesity coexist side-by-side, is a severe challenge in South-East Asia.  The proportion of underweight children in South-East Asia is 19 per cent, the third largest share after South Asia and ...

2 ABSTRACT The paper argues that the economies of East and South East Asia are a very diverse group, only some of which have grown rapidly over the past three decades. The fast growing economies of South East Asia, especially Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia are in a number of important respects different from the fast growing economies of North The different colonial legacies have had importan...

There is mixed evidence regarding the effectiveness of pro-natalist policies in developed countries (McDonald 2007), particularly in lowest-low fertility countries (including Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan in East Asia, and Italy, Spain and Portugal in Europe). Since demographic transitions were generally completed much earlier in Europe, East Asian policy responses to the problem of ...

This paper examines the debate on the East Asian model of economic development in light of the different approaches undertaken by different groups of countries (economies) in Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia. The common strengths and weaknesses shared by the East Asian countries (economies) have helped to reinforce the misconception that there is a single East Asian model of economic developme...

This paper analyzes the feasibility of various types of currency unions, such as a dollar bloc, Euro bloc, Yen bloc, and basket currency bloc in East Asia, and empirically estimates welfare effects of a currency union for East Asian economies. Judging from optimum currency area (OCA) criteria, including the symmetry of output and price shocks across countries, commitment to price stability, and...

Many studies find that gender-based inequalities in education reduce economic growth, because such inequalities decrease the overall human capital available within the country. Notwithstanding the methodological limitations alluded to earlier, Morrison, Raju, and Sinha (2007) report striking findings from work undertaken by Klasen (2002). Klasen estimates the effect of the gender gap in years o...