Productivity And Economic Performance In The Asia Pacific Region

Author : Tsu-Tan Fu,Cliff J. Huang,C. A. Knox Lovell
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1782542582

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Productivity and Economic Performance in the Asia-Pacific Region by Tsu-Tan Fu,Cliff J. Huang,C. A. Knox Lovell Pdf

'. . . this voluminous book is well put together and clearly worth a read.' - Renuka Mahadevan, ASEAN Bulletin Following on from their previous book Economic Efficiency and Productivity Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region, the authors in this volume analyse the economic performance of many of the major economies in the Asia-Pacific region including Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Korea, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China and Japan. They examine economic and productivity growth, competitiveness and efficiency developments in the region. An introductory essay by the editors surveys recent economic developments in the region whilst introducing and cohesively integrating the chapters that follow. The studies employ a variety of modern analytical constructs and empirical techniques of open economy growth accounting as well as the measurement of productivity change, technical change and economic efficiency. A number of the chapters examine the entire region while others focus exclusively on a nation or industry. Several chapters study the causes and consequences of the financial crises in the region in 1997 from a recent historical perspective.

Author : Jeong-Dong Lee,Almas Heshmati
Publisher : Physica
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3790823198

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Productivity, Efficiency, and Economic Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region by Jeong-Dong Lee,Almas Heshmati Pdf

Productivity growth is a keyword for sustainable economic growth in a knowledge-based society. There has been significant methodological development in the literature on productivity and efficiency analysis, e.g. SFA (Stochastic Frontier Analysis) and DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis). All these methodological developments should be matched with applications in order to provide practical implications for private and public decision-makers. This volume provides a collection of up-to-date and new applications of productivity and efficiency analysis. In particular, the case studies cover various economic issues in the Asia-Pacific region. The authors analyze the performance of manufacturing firms, banks, venture capital, broadcasting firms, as well as the issues of efficiency in the education sector, regional development, and defense industry. These case studies will shed light on the potential contribution of productivity and efficiency analysis to the enhancement of economic performance.

Author : Tsu-Tan Fu,Cliff J. Huang,C. A. Knox Lovell
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822026176529

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Economic Efficiency and Productivity Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region by Tsu-Tan Fu,Cliff J. Huang,C. A. Knox Lovell Pdf

Asian and western economists apply a variety of empirical techniques to measure productivity growth, factor accumulation, and economic efficiency at both large and small scales in the region as a whole and in specific countries over the past three decades. Their techniques include traditional growth accounting, econometric frontier estimation, and data envelopment analysis. Among the issues they discuss are the influential role of trade in the region, macroeconomic management, income, capital, labor productivity, technology, and investment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : James H. Gapinski
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Asia
ISBN : 0333794893

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Economic Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region by James H. Gapinski Pdf

This book seeks to account for what James H. Gapinski calls the "miraculous" growth of Asian economies. He examines several major determinants of growth, including capital quantity (gross investment and physical depreciation), capital quality (embodied technical progress), labour quantity (employment), labour quality (education), international trade (exports and openness), and total factor productivity (growth not accounted for by capital and labour quantity). The book begins by providing an orientation to the region, discussing basic conditions and historical events. Part II gives the theory, facts, and explanation of growth, a main issue being productivity convergence. The author's analysis of growth determinants provides a natural framework from which to examine major issues that bear on Asian Pacific growth in the future, so the third part examines Hong Kong's growth under reversion to China and inquires into the growth consequences of the Asian currency crisis. Along the way, Gapinski examines implications for business and policy leaders of the current growth trends.

Author : Kenneth L. Kraemer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Economic development
ISBN : PSU:000025764369

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IT and Economic Development by Kenneth L. Kraemer Pdf

Author : United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210579230

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Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2016 by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Pdf

The Survey 2016 assesses the region’s outlook as it navigates through global uncertainties, providing policy options and strategies to support countries in striving towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The report analyses a wide range of areas including economic growth, inflation, trade and investment, financial markets, inequality, employment, and environmental concerns. The special theme of Survey 2016 highlights how both economic growth and productivity growth have declined in the aftermath of the 2008 economic and financial crisis in the Asia-Pacific region. In doing so, the report examines underlying trends of productivity growth and argues that the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development provides an entry point to strengthen productivity as investing in the SDGs can foster productivity growth, thereby creating a virtuous cycle between sustainable development, productivity and development.

Author : Takatoshi Ito,Andrew K. Rose
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226387079

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Growth and Productivity in East Asia by Takatoshi Ito,Andrew K. Rose Pdf

Considering the examples of Australia and the Pacific Rim, Growth and Productivity in East Asia offers a contemporary explanation for national productivity that measures contributions not only from capital and labor, but also from economic activities and relevant changes in policy, education, and technology. Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose have organized a group of collaborators from several Asian countries, the United States, and other parts of the globe who ably balance both macroeconomic and microeconomic study with theoretical and empirical approaches. Growth and Productivity in East Asia gives special attention to the causes for the unusual success of Australia, one of the few nations to maintain unprecedented economic growth despite the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the 2001 global downturn. A new database comprising eighty-four Japanese sectors reveals new findings for the last thirty years of sectoral productivity and growth in Japan. Studies focusing on Indonesia, Taiwan, and Korea also consider productivity and its relationship to research and development, foreign ownership, and policy reform in such industries as manufacturing, automobile production, and information technology.

Author : United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789213619209

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Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2016 by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Pdf

The Survey 2016 assesses the region’s outlook as it navigates through global uncertainties, providing policy options and strategies to support countries in striving towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The report analyses a wide range of areas including economic growth, inflation, trade and investment, financial markets, inequality, employment, and environmental concerns. The special theme of Survey 2016 highlights how both economic growth and productivity growth have declined in the aftermath of the 2008 economic and financial crisis in the Asia-Pacific region. In doing so, the report examines underlying trends of productivity growth and argues that the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development provides an entry point to strengthen productivity as investing in the SDGs can foster productivity growth, thereby creating a virtuous cycle between sustainable development, productivity and development.

Author : Truman G. Packard,Trang Van Nguyen
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464800047

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East Asia Pacific at Work by Truman G. Packard,Trang Van Nguyen Pdf

The unprecedented progress of East Asia Pacific is a triumph of working people. Countries that were low-income a generation ago successfully integrated into the global value chain, exploiting their labor-cost advantage. In 1990, the region held about a third of the world’s labor force. Leveraging this comparative advantage, the share of global GDP of emerging economies in East Asia Pacific grew from 7 percent in 1992 to 17 percent in 2011. Yet, the region now finds itself at a critical juncture. Work and its contribution to growth and well-being can no longer be taken for granted. The challenges range from high youth inactivity and rising inequality to binding skills shortages. A key underlying issue is economic informality, which constrains innovation and productivity, limits the tax base, and increases household vulnerability to shocks. Informality is both a consequence of stringent labor regulations and limited enforcement capacity. In several countries, de jure employment regulations are more stringent than in many parts of Europe. Even labor regulations set at reasonable levels but poorly implemented can aggravate the market failures they were designed to overcome. This report argues that the appropriate policy responses are to ensure macroeconomic stability, and in particular, a regulatory framework that encourages small- and medium-sized enterprises where most people in the region work. Mainly agrarian countries should focus on raising agricultural productivity. In urbanizing countries, good urban planning becomes critical. Pacific island countries will need to provide youth with human capital needed to succeed abroad as migrant workers. And, across the region, it is critical to ‘formalize’ more work, to increase the coverage of essential social protection, and to sustain productivity. To this end, policies should encourage mobility of labor and human capital, and not favor some forms of employment - for instance, full-time wage employment in manufacturing - over others, either implicitly or explicitly. Policies to increase growth and well-being from employment should instead reflect and support the dynamism and diversity of work forms across the region.

Author : Dale Weldeau Jorgenson,Masahiro Kuroda,Kazuyuki Motohashi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847208743

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Productivity in Asia by Dale Weldeau Jorgenson,Masahiro Kuroda,Kazuyuki Motohashi Pdf

In recent years there have been huge improvements in the methods and data to measure and analyze the sources of economic growth around the world. This volume on the growth accounts for four core economies in East Asia is a vital contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of growth. Bart van Ark, University of Groningen, The Netherlands The outstanding economic performance of East Asian countries has been investigated in numerous studies. However, most comparative studies analyze macro-level productivity. In this book, the productivity performance of China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the United States are compared at industry level. The work is a result of an international collaborative research project by RIETI (Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry), Japan. The total factor productivity growth and level amongst these five countries sheds new light on the industrial competitiveness of growing Asian economies compared to Japan and the United States. In addition, this book provides detailed information on productivity datasets for these five countries. Productivity in Asia will strongly appeal to scholars of Asian studies, industrial organization and economics as well as those interested in productivity statistics.

Author : Hafiz A. Akhand,Kanhaya Lal Gupta
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415288681

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Economic Development in Pacific Asia by Hafiz A. Akhand,Kanhaya Lal Gupta Pdf

This is an accessible and wide ranging assessment of the existing evidence and current arguments on East Asian economic development.

Author : Economic and Social Commission for Asia
Publisher : Economic and Social Survey of
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9211207150

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Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific by Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pdf

The Survey 2014 will examine the regions challenges to support its economic growth and to promote inclusive and sustainable development. Part I of the report will focus on the regions outlook as it contends with the ongoing global recovery and assesses the regions policy response to remaining and emerging vulnerabilities. A special theme is domestic resource mobilization in Asia-Pacific, which will explore the challenges on strengthening tax revenues. Part II of the report discusses strategic approaches to strengthen regional connectivity to achieve shared prosperity.

Author : Adam Triggs,Shujiro Urata
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781760463823

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Achieving Inclusive Growth in the Asia Pacific by Adam Triggs,Shujiro Urata Pdf

The world’s developed economies are experiencing a sharp backlash against globalisation, and it appears to be contagious. Will Asia catch it next? Asia has seen spectacular growth in recent decades. It has benefited substantially from global trade, finance, openness and the rules-based international order. But much of the growth Asia has enjoyed has not been shared. It has not been inclusive growth. Inequality in Asia is among the highest in the world. The richest man in Vietnam now earns more in a single day than the poorest person does in a decade. Asia has far to go in making its societies more inclusive to women, ethnic minorities and the LGBT community. How can Asia reduce inequality? What are the forces that determine whether growth in the Asia Pacific is inclusive or not? And what can be done to make Asia’s growth more inclusive in the future? This book brings together the region’s leading thinkers to explore how to change Asia’s trajectory, before it is too late. The Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) conference series has been at the forefront of analysing challenges facing the economies of East Asia and the Pacific since its first meeting in Tokyo in January 1968.

Author : Renuka Mahadevan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781957118

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The Economics of Productivity in Asia and Australia by Renuka Mahadevan Pdf

"Suggests processes and strategies for choosing the best technique to draw up policies for sustainable growth." - dust jacket.

Author : Wendy Dobson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135039820

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Human Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific by Wendy Dobson Pdf

The entire planet looks to Asian and other emerging markets to sustain growth momentum as traditional markets in the USA and Europe struggle with the slow and arduous processes of deleveraging after the global financial crisis. At the same time, there is growing recognition in Asia that the sources of growth must shift to sustain their own growth momentum in the years ahead. Heavy reliance on the region’s high savings rates and plentiful supplies of low-cost labour will have to shift towards increasing the human capital embodied in more educated and skilled labour forces capable of contributing to productivity growth and innovation as future drivers of growth. Human Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific focuses on why and how countries are making this shift. The demographic transition is shown to be a significant factor as ageing populations in Japan, South Korea and China manage declining growth in the labour force by stepping up investments in education, and by changing policies and institutions. Lessons to be learned from these experiences by more youthful populations in Southeast Asia are explored. In addition, attention is paid to the consequences of cross-border differentials in technical knowledge and the quantity and quality of human capital. Several implications for public policy and for international cooperation on human-capital issues in the Asian region are identified. The chapters in this volume are edited versions of papers presented at the 35th Pacific Trade and Development conference held in Vancouver, Canada, in June 2012. The conference goal was to better understand how governments and business in Asia and the Pacific can apply the key insight that one of the reasons economies grow is because of human-capital formation – the quality and diversity of the labour force are augmented – not just because the labour force grows in size. Students of Asia’s growth prospects will find several aspects of this volume of particular value. It includes chapters on the big-picture conceptual and measurement issues; on country experiences in meeting the imperatives of the demographic transition and investing in education and skills training; and on country experiences with attracting foreign knowledge and the supply and recruitment of skills across borders in Asia and the Pacific. Policymakers will also find useful the discussions of policy implications and the menu of issues requiring intergovernmental cooperation within the Asian region.