Asian Development Review: Volume 37, Number 1

Contents 

This paper summarizes the lessons learned from the series of season migration trials, the implications of these results for spatial misallocation, urbanization, and growth, and the replicability and relevance of this and other policies encouraging domestic migration more broadly for other areas in the Asia and Pacific region.

Using a recently constructed dataset that draws on the China Employer–Employee Survey, this paper provides new evidence on the earnings gap between rural migrant and urban manufacturing workers in the People’s Republic of China.

This paper uses loan-level from Thailand’s National Credit Bureau to study household debt over the life cycle of borrowers.

This paper explores financial spillovers between Asia and advanced economies using principal component analysis to extract common shocks in Asia.

By classifying international green and non-green trade for the period 1980–2015, this study investigates trends in green trade, exports, and imports, respectively.

This paper provides supportive evidence for a key public policy rationale to promote formalization: increased tax revenues.

This paper assesses the environmental and economic efficiency of thermal plants operating on fossil fuels in Pakistan using methods based on data envelopment analysis.

Using the 2014–2015 Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey and robust econometric methods, this study analyzes different types of energy used for cooking among urban households in Pakistan.