reallocate labor across activities less in response to intra-seasonal crop price changes than do non-smallholders. A … counterfactual exercise indicates smallholders could increase revenue by almost nine percent if they were to reallocate labor …

local non-farm employment opportunities interacting with barriers to labor mobility for women but not men. …

, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …-intensive crops, indicating that the pollution works at least partly through direct effects on labor productivity. Finally, combining …

equitable society that provides opportunities for all. Developing Asia has trailed other parts of the world in equity …

Developing Asia has undergone a dramatic shift over the past 5 decades from a region of mainly lowincome economies … toward one that is largely middle income. Compared with world aggregate data, developing Asia now has a much greater …

In this introduction, we look at the management of human resources in the Asia Pacific region. We start with an …

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have emerged in developing Asia as a policy response to an unprecedented accumulation of … sensitivity of state-led FDI severely constrains the ability of developing Asia's SWFs to undertake FDI on a significant scale …. Therefore, the potential for developing Asia's SWFs to become major sources of outward FDI is more apparent than real. This …

is a growing consensus that Asia's reserves now substantially exceed the levels required for precautionary purposes or … reserves in developing Asia have in fact reached excessive levels. Informal tests of reserve adequacy based on widely used … confirm the popular belief that developing Asia now has excessive foreign exchange reserves. Therefore, the short-run policy …

investments. In order to increase the labor productivity of the sector and realize its potential to contribute to inclusive growth … balanced growth in which the service and industry sectors support and reinforce each other. As services tend to be more labor …