exchange rate volatility, and (b) trade and financial openness may have a potential role of mitigating and/or amplifying real … openness to exacerbate or mitigate real exchange rate volatility. The authors collected information on the real effective …) High real exchange rate volatility is the result of highly volatile productivity shocks, and sharp oscillations in monetary …

"The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of "missing girls" in much of East and South Asia has attracted much … ratios were the highest in Asia but peaked in the mid-1990s and normalized thereafter. Using census data, we examine whether …" phenomenon could be addressed in Asia. "--World Bank web site …

(China)--and the recent reforms to them provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All …

countries in Asia and Australasia, and Canada and the United Kingdom. The authors find that the institutional factors which most …

of adopting both types of innovation in Asia, including its impact on rice producers and other consumers. They do so … would boost the productivity of unskilled workers among Asia's poor. This paper--a product of the Trade Team, Development …