Asian-Pacific Economic Literature最新文献

{"title":"Gambling on Development: Why some Countries Win and Others Lose, StefanDercon, Hurst, London, 2022, Pp. 398 + xiv, ISBN 9781787 385627","authors":"H. Hill","doi":"10.1111/apel.12374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apel.12374","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"63100292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"List of Reviewers","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/apel.12372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apel.12372","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"36 2","pages":"133-137"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137646126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"50 Years of CSIS—Ideas and Policy in Indonesia Peter McCawley, Centre for Strategic and international StudiesJakarta, 2021, Pp. 342 + xxiv ISBN: 978 9791 29542 0","authors":"Andrew Elek","doi":"10.1111/apel.12367","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apel.12367","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Peter McCawley has produced an excellent record of the contribution the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has made to Indonesia and beyond. It documents the intertwined evolution of Indonesian society and the Centre during an eventful five decades. It is a heartening story, reaffirming that people with vision, dedication and perseverance can make a difference—shining a ray of hope through the darkness which threatens to descend on much of the planet a quarter of the way into the 21st century.</p><p>It was dark in Indonesia in 1965 when the ‘Old Order’ dominated by President Sukarno crumbled into instability and widespread bloodshed. Chapter 1 describes the uncertainty of the next several years. Harry Tjan Silahali and Jusuf Wanandi were among the student activists who saw the need to shape a new way to work towards a just and prosperous Indonesia.</p><p>In each case, they sought to identify policy options, independently from, but available to government. For example, Wanandi was heavily involved in changing policy on Papua from plunder to assistance that could increase Papuan support for the remaining part of Indonesia. Their wide-ranging reports to government sought to incorporate lessons from international experience along with assessments of domestic realities and opportunities.</p><p>The work of these founders began to attract favourable attention; gaining support from two generals (Moertopo and Soedjono) who were trusted special advisors to Soeharto. That vital political ‘cover’ made it possible to expand the scope of research and advice, bringing in some more people and to raise finance. By September 1971, it was possible to launch the CSIS.</p><p>Clear principles and objectives helped the founders to attract talented people, including Clara Joewono, Hadi Soesastro, and Daoed Joesoef; several of whom had studied overseas. Once on board, researchers were encouraged to express their own views on how to promote these objectives.</p><p>The CSIS team set to work; to anticipate issues needing attention, then be first in the field with practical advice. They did not always succeed in efforts to shape policy, but were always ready to respond to emerging realities.</p><p>CSIS research gave early priority to improving Indonesia's economic prospects. McCawley's history surveys the vast research output of CSIS, including many articles and broad surveys of the economy. Examples include a collection of articles on The Acceleration and Modernisation of 25 Year's Development, published in 1972, which served as a guide to government priorities during the 1970s.2 Several such volumes followed over the years, identifying emerging challenges and opportunities.</p><p>All of the Centre's work reflected an awareness that Indonesia's prosperity depended on the rest of the world. In addition to sound domestic policy-making, it was essential to have good and peaceful relations within its own region, to be able to compete confidently in interna","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"36 2","pages":"118-123"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apel.12367","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41840102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The developmental leader","authors":"Murat Ali Yülek,&nbsp;K. Ali Akkemik","doi":"10.1111/apel.12364","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apel.12364","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The role of the leader in economic development and in the formation of the developmental state is overlooked in the standard development economics literature. The developmental state is a state with adequate ‘state capacity’ to achieve successful policy design and implementation to reach developmental objectives. Developmental leaders have played an important role in the formation and administration of the developmental state, which has driven East Asian industrialisation and economic development. In contrast to standard political leaders, including populists, developmental leaders have envisioned, ignited and then administered successful economic development processes. In this study, we introduce and discuss the notion of the developmental leader (primarily in East Asia) through a selective theoretical and empirical analysis of developmental leaders.</p>","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"36 2","pages":"3-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46798982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Barriers to e-commerce adoption: evidence from the retail and food and beverage sectors in Malaysia","authors":"Andrew Jia-Yi Kam,&nbsp;Siew Yean Tham","doi":"10.1111/apel.12365","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apel.12365","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There is a continuing interest in small and medium enterprises (SMEs)' e-commerce adoption, especially from South-east Asia, including Malaysia. The objective of this study is to examine the key determinants of SMEs embracing e-commerce in the retail and food and beverage sector in the Klang Valley. Using a Logit model, the findings show that organisational barriers are the most important barriers to SMEs' adoption of e-commerce, followed by environmental barriers. The findings imply that one-size-fits-all policies should not be used since the barriers are different between adopters and non-adopters and the scale of their operations. Analysis within variables between adopters and non-adopters using a decision-maker, technology, organisation-environment framework indicates that young leaders are important in adopting e-commerce. Importantly, technology is not everything when it comes to e-commerce adoption. It matters more to small firms. Therefore, policy needs to take firm heterogeneity.</p>","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"36 2","pages":"32-51"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48781767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The motherhood effect on labour market outcomes: evidence from South Korea","authors":"Anna Kim,&nbsp;Youjin Hahn","doi":"10.1111/apel.12363","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apel.12363","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examine mothers' relative labour market outcomes around the first childbirth in South Korea, a country with the highest gender pay gaps and the lowest fertility rate among the OECD countries. Using an event study approach, we find that while fathers remain unaffected, mothers' earnings drop sharply by 66.2 per cent over the long run, mostly driven by a reduction in labour force participation. For women who continue to work, motherhood lowers the probability of entering male-dominated occupations and industries but increases the probability of working in female-dominated occupations and industries. Finally, we find that motherhood has a stronger negative effect on labour market outcomes for less-educated mothers, young mothers, mothers who first bear children within two years of marriage, and mothers with three or more children.</p>","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"36 2","pages":"71-88"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48027542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does the minimum wage improve the welfare of workers? Evidence from the 2013 minimum wage reform in Thailand","authors":"Wannaphong Durongkaveroj","doi":"10.1111/apel.12366","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apel.12366","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of the 2013 minimum wage reform in Thailand. The study employs a difference-in-difference (DID) estimation and utilises data drawn from comprehensive socioeconomic household surveys from 2009 to 2019. The findings suggest that the minimum wage reform significantly increased the average daily earnings, the number of paid days of employment, consumption expenditure per capita, and income per capita. However, the minimum wage reform had little impact on poor households. The results withstand different estimation techniques and a set of additional controls.</p>","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"36 2","pages":"52-70"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48985948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Economic Consequences of Globalization on Thailand, Juthathip Jongwanich, Milton Park: Routledge, 2022, Pp. 275 + Xii, ISBN 978 0367 69972 7","authors":"Tham Siew Yean","doi":"10.1111/apel.12368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apel.12368","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"36 2","pages":"129-130"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137667249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How do political connections affect the formation of zombie firms? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing listed enterprises","authors":"Wei Shao,&nbsp;Ziqi Chen,&nbsp;Huaiyu Liu","doi":"10.1111/apel.12361","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apel.12361","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Zombie firms that rely on government subsidies and bank loans have seriously affected the healthy development of economies. This paper uses data from Chinese listed manufacturing enterprises from 2007 to 2017 to test and analyse the relationship between political connections and zombie enterprises. The study finds: (i) political connections are positively correlated with the ‘zombification’ of enterprises; (ii) credit subsidies play an intermediary role between political connections and ‘zombification’ of enterprises, with the acquisition of large credit subsidies the main path to the ‘zombification’ of politically connected enterprises; and (iii) firms that have political connections may use credit subsidies for inefficient over-investment. This study has value for other countries in clarifying the causes of zombie firms and preventing politically connected enterprises from becoming zombie firms.</p>","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"36 2","pages":"17-31"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48523896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Myanmar: Politics, Economy and Society , Adam Simpson & Nicholas Farrelly (eds), Routledge (2021), Pp. 1–274, ISBN 978 0367 11044 4","authors":"Adam McCarty,&nbsp;Callum Furness","doi":"10.1111/apel.12369","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apel.12369","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"36 2","pages":"126-128"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46731662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}