Asian Development Review: Volume 42, Number 2

Publication | June 2025
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This issue explores lessons for addressing poverty and inequality in Asia and the Pacific. It also covers topics including working after retirement, medical insurance, education expenditure, and digital services.

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Contents

Mini Symposium from AEDC 2024

This highlights research on aspects of poverty and inequality in Asia and the Pacific as part of the discussion of development lessons that can be drawn from these experiences.

This study investigates the impact of government–business relationships on corporate involvement in the People’s Republic of China’s poverty alleviation campaign.

This paper addresses inequality through multi-economy panel data analysis using an analytical framework that draws on Hirschman’s assertion on the "changing tolerance for income inequality in the course of economic development."

This study examines regional income and inequality in the People’s Republic of China from 2001 to 2020 using high-quality nighttime light data to help proxy for the gross domestic product.

This study examines the effect of a typhoon on low-income urban neighborhoods in the Philippines during the coronavirus disease quarantine.

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This study examines trends in working after retirement and its relationship to the wider policy and welfare state context in the People’s Republic of China.

This paper examines the wage differentials between local and migrant workers in urban areas of the People’s Republic of China.

This study evaluates the outcomes of catastrophic medical insurance program, which the People’s Republic of China introduced in the 2010s.

This paper explores the links between conflict, land, and indigenous peoples on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines.

Using the Timor-Leste Survey of Living Standards, this paper shows that the household education spending on girls was higher than for boys in the period following independence.

This paper shows that trade in services helps industries to not only grow but to also become "greener."

This paper finds effective intersectoral linkages that may improve the economic well-being of agricultural households in India.

Additional Details

Type
Subjects
  • Agriculture and natural resources
  • Economics
  • Environment
  • Industry and trade
Countries
  • China, People's Republic of
  • India
  • Philippines
  • Timor-Leste
Pages
  • 368
Dimensions
  • 6.69 x 9.61
Publication Stock No.
  • JRN250103-2
ISSN
  • 0116-1105 (print)
  • 1996-7241 (electronic)

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