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The East-West Center contributes to a peaceful, prosperous and just Asia Pacific community by serving as a hub for cooperative research, education and dialogue on critical issues of common concern to the Asia Pacific region and the US. The East-West Center Working Papers focus on issues of social, economic and political development in that region.

Publishers:	East-West Center (EWC)
Publications:	Myanmar: Cross-Cutting Governance Challenges Global Strategic Patenting and Innovation: Policy and Research Implications Electrifying North Korea: Bringing Power to Underserved Marginal Populations in the DPRK The Shadow of Urbanization: The Periurban Interface of Five Indian Cities in Transition Is the Information Technology Agreement Facilitating Latecomer Manufacturing and Innovation? India's Experience Collective Self-Defense and US-Japan Security Cooperation Standards, Innovation, and Latecomer Economic Development - A Conceptual Framework Industrial Upgrading Through Low-Cost and Fast Innovation - Taiwan's Experience The People Behind the Press: Building Social Capital in New Media Ecologies Europe’s Innovation Union - Beyond Techno-Nationalism? Global Technology Sourcing in China's Integrated Circuit Design Industry: A Conceptual Framework and Preliminary Findings The Microeconomics of North-South Korean Cross-Border Integration Networks, Trust and Trade Diverging Trajectories: Economic Rebalancing and Labor Policies in China America's Voluntary Standards System - A "Best Practice" Model for Innovation Policy An Evaluation of Overseas Oil Investment Projects Under Uncertainty Using a Real Options Based Simulation Model The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asia-Pacific Integration: A Quantitative Assessment Trade in Environmental Goods, with Focus on Climate-Friendly Goods and Technologies Resource Management and Transition in Central Asia, Azerbaijan, and Mongolia A Brief History of Standards and Standardization Organizations: A Chinese Perspective Myanmar's Perpetual Dilemma: Ethnicity in a "Discipline-Flourishing Democracy" Environmental Security and its Implications for China's Foreign Relations Inflationary Effect of Oil-Price Shocks in an Imperfect Market: A Partial Transmission Input-Output Analysis Multivariate Life Table Methodology for Estimating the Effect of Child Mortality on the Total Fertility Rate and its Components The Role of MNCs in China's Standardization Further Development of Methodology for Multivariate Analysis of the Total Fertillity Rate and its Components Based on Birth-History Data A Research Strategy for the Pacific Climate Information System Assessing China's Carbon Intensity Pledge for 2020: Stringency and Credibility Issues and Their Implications Population Aging and Economic Progress: A Bumpy Road Ahead? Post-Conflict Planning and Reconstruction: Lessons from the American Experience in Korea Copenhagen and Beyond: Reflections on China's Stance and Responses Political Attitudes Under Repression: Evidence from North Korean Refugees The Challenge of Patent Governance in ICT Standards: Seen from a Patent Authority's Perspective China in the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy Multivariate Analysis of Parity Progression–Based Measures of the Total Fertility Rate And Its Components The Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation: Implications for China's Policy on Information Security Standards Standardization Strategy of China - Achievement and Challenges Population Policy, Economic Reform, and Fertility Decline in Guangdong Province, China Oil Price Shocks and Their Short- and Long-Term Effects on the Chinese Economy Can the Knowledge-Capital Model Explain Sectoral Foreign Investment? Labor Skills and Foreign Direct Investment in a Dynamic Economy Twilight of the God? The (Non) Impact of UN Sanctions on North Korea Famine in North Korea Redux? India's National Innovation System Multivariate Analysis of Parity Progression-Based Measures of the Total Fertility Rate and Its Components Using Individual-Level Data Can Chinese IT Firms Develop Innovative Capabilities Within Global Knowledge Networks? Innovation Offshoring and Asia's 'Upgrading Through Innovation' Strategies Governing the Global Knowledge Economy Integration Strategies for ASEAN Income Distribution and Poverty Alleviation for the Native Hawaiian Community Public Perceptions of Urban Air Pollution with a Focus on Developing Countries Entrepreneurship and Political Guanxi Networks in China's Private Sector Commuters' Exposure to Particulate Matter and Carbon Monoxide in Hanoi, Vietnam The US New Trans-Pacific Initiative Building an East Asian Regional Order Disincentives for Democratic Change in China Total Factor Productivity and R&D Capital in Manufacturing Industries Challenges and Solutions in Improving Tuberculosis Care Among Aboriginal People in Taiwan The Impact of 9/11 and Other Terrible Global Events on Tourism in the US and Hawaii The Koizumi Government and the Politics of Normalizing Japanese - North Korean Relations An Economic Diagnosis of Palau Through the Liechtenstein Lens Insinuations on China's Emergent Capitalism Terrorism and Tourism in the Asia Pacific Region China's Rise as an International Trading Power Ending an Era Foreign Direct Investment in China: 1981-2001 Strategic Cooperation Between China and South Korea and Strategic Structure of Northeast Asia Terrorism in Indonesia The Development of 23 Industrial Sectors in Western China The Philippine Supreme Court and the Mining Act Ruling Reversal Effects of Pension Payments on Savings in the Philippines Effectiveness Analysis of Capita Adequacy Regulation in China Dance for Development: Uyghur Women in the Chinese Diaspora Creating Self-Empowerment Through Dance Colonial Construction of Malayness Norms, Structures, and Japan's "Northern Territories" Policy China as a Risk Society What Has Driven Chinese Monetary Policy Since 1990? The IMF and the Liberalization of Capital Flows The Roh Moo Hyun Government's Policy Toward North Korea The Experience of European Integration and the Potential for Northeast Asian Integration From Entourage to Ideology? East Asian Economic Development Institutional Change in Japan Introduction to Institutional Change in Japan The Designated Hitter Rule and Team Defensive Strategy in Japan's Professional Baseball League How Inefficient Are Small-Scale Rice Farmers in Eastern India Really? Trade, Foreign Firms, and Economic Policy in Indonesian and Thai Manufacturing Relative Economic Decline and Unrealized Demographic Opportunity in the Philippines Japan's Baby Bust FDI and Trade Technical Efficiency in the Iron and Steel Industry Electric Power Grid Interconnection in Northeast Asia A Short Review on Pyongyang's Foreign-Policymaking Process Capital Controls: The Case of Malaysia and Lessons for Vietnam From "Power to the People" to "Civil Empowerment" "Glamorous" Violence? Aggressive Dating Behavior of Women in Beijing Increasing Integration Among Asia Pacific Equity Markets Integrating Gender Perspectives in Evaluating the Efficiency of Community-Oriented Financial Intermediaries The Ethnolinguistic Situation in East Timor The Impacts of Competition-Policy Reforms on the Efficiency of Philippine Commercial Banks The Roots of Ecological Catastrophe Patrimonialism Global Production Networks and Industrial Upgrading in China Impact of Population Aging on Japanese International Travel to 2025 Civil Society, Nuclear Disarmament, and the U.S. Alliance American Military Presence in the Southern Philippines Endogenous Financial and Trade Openness Limits to Modularity Interregional Burden-Sharing of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in the United States Towards an Effective Implementation of CDM Projects in China The World Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund and China China's WTO Accession and Its Effect on State-Owned Enterprises The Reasons for and the Impact of Antidumping Protection Policy as Warrant Searching for a New Role in East Asian Regionalization Estimation of the J-Curve in China Late Innovation Strategies in Asian Electronic Industries What Do We Know About Health Effects of Smoke from Solid Fuel Combustion? Covariates of Overweight and Obesity Among Women in North India Effect of Obesity on Asthma Among Adult Indian Women Maternal Exposure to Biomass Smoke and Reduced Birth Weight in Zimbabwe Sex Differentials in Childhood Feeding, Health Care, and Nutritional Status in India Muslims/Non-Muslim Differentials in Fertility and Family Planning in India Islam and Economic Development in New Order's Indonesia (1967-1998) Fiscal Consequences of Asian Crisis Financing Public Goods through Markets Textile and Apparel Industry in Sri Lanka Benchmarking the Efficiency of Philippines Electric Cooperatives Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis An Empirical Analysis of the Averch-Johnson Effect in Electricity Generation Plants The Sources of Growth Gonorrhea, Infertility, and Population Decline in Yap during the Japanese Occupation Towards a New Foreign Policy Seizing the Highest High Ground Sovereignty, Internationalism, and the Chinese In-Between The Development of a Peer Competitor Pathways to Innovation in Asia's Leading Electronics Exporting Countries Modularity and the Organization of International Production Global Production Networks, Innovation and Work - Why Chip and System Design in the IT Industry are Moving to Asia Internationalisation of Innovation Trade and Workers: Evidence from the Philippines The Amended US Compacts of Free Association with the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands Poverty and Economic Freedom: Evidence from Cross-Country Data Trade Reforms, Labor Regulations, and Labor-Demand Elasticities The New Mobility of Knowledge: Digital Information Systems and Global Flagship Networks Pathways to Innovation in the Global Network Economy Open Trade With the US Without Compromising Canada's Ability to Comply With Its Kyoto Target How Sustainable are Benefits from Global Production Networks? Key Players in the Asia Pacific Oil Market Globalization and Industrial Labor Markets in South Asia What Do We Know About Carbon Taxes? An Inquiry into Their Impacts on Competitiveness and Distribution of Income US - India Technology Cooperation and Capability Building R&D Services and Global Production Networks Daily Exposure to Air Pollution in Indoor, Outdoor, and In-vehicle Micro-environments Fertility in Nepal 1981-2000: Levels, Trends, and Components of Change Why Did the Energy Intensity Fall in China's Industrial Sector in the 1990s? Multinational Firms and the Evolution of the Indian Software Industry Exposure of Infants to Outdoor and Indoor Air Pollution in Low-Income Urban Areas Determining Spatial Patterns in Delhi's Ambient Air Quality Data Using Cluster Analysis Trade and Labour Market Linkages in India Democratic America in Northeast Asia Land Tenure: An Introduction Production Networks of Japanese and American Automobile Industry E-Business and the Semiconductor Industry Value Chain Global Production Networks and Information Technology A Comparative History of Age-Structure and Social Transitions Among Asian Youth Digital Information Systems and Global Flagship Networks Small is Viable The Economic and Environmental Implications of the US Repudiation of the Kyoto Protocol and the Subsequent Deals in Bonn and Marrakech A Weak State and the Solomon Islands Peace Process Global Production Networks in East Asia's Electronics Industry and Upgrading Perspectives in Malaysia Do Global Production Networks and Digital Information Systems Make Knowledge Spatially Fluid? National Sovereign Economy, Global Market Economy, and Transnational Corporate Economy Domestic Climate Policies and the WTO Globalization and Workers in Developing Countries Intellectual Property Rights in China The Impact of Minimum Wage Policy on Wages and Employment in Developing Countries Transnational Communities and the Evolution of Global Production Networks An Asian Comparative Description of Events in the Transition to Adulthood Cross-National Comparison and the Importance of Sub-Groups Within Countries Early Marriage and Childbearing in Indonesia and Nepal Effect of Education on Premarital Sex and Marriage in Taiwan On Their Own Sex and Marriage The Youth Tobacco Epidemic in Asia The Power Structure of the Hong Kong Chinese Family Promiscuous Husbands and Loyal Wives Notes on Youth and Education in Indonesia How Can Young Adult Reproductive Health (YARH) Surveys Play a Role in Program Design and Evaluation The Risk of Premarital Sex Among Thai Youth Initiation of Smoking, Drinking, and Drug-Use Among Filipino Youths Family Influences on the Lifestyle of Filipino Youth Drinking, Smoking, and Drug Use among Thai Youth From Digital Divides to Industrial Upgrading The Timing of Union Formation and Sexual Onset The National Youth Populations of Asia Surveying Adolescent Sexuality Events Information and the Life Course Framework in Young Adult Reproductive Health (YARH) Survey Studies of Adolescent Risk Implications, Challenges, and Prospects for Taiwan in the Knowledge-Based Economy Private Profit or Public Purpose? Corporate Governance Convergence and the Asian State Governing Electronic Commerce in a Global Environment The Internet's Effects on Global Production Networks The Impact of Trade and Labor Market Regulations on Employment and Wages Trade Liberalization, Labor Markets and Imperfect Competition The Evolution of a "Digital Economy" Does Investing in Technology Affect Exports? Globalisation, Economic Crisis and Labor Market Policy Global Production Networks, Knowledge Diffusion, and Local Capability Formation Global Production Networks and Industrial Upgrading Globalization and Wage Inequality in Indonesia Multinational Corporations and Endogenous Growth Trade Policy Reform and Labor Market Dynamics Interantional Economic Integration and Labor Markets The "Hidden" Side of the "Flying-Geese" Model of Catch-Up Growth Electronics Contract Manufacturing E-Commerce and the Semiconductor Industry Value Chain Global Production Networks and Local Capabilities Industrial Districts, ITC and Global Production Networks Inter-Firm Linkages and Development of Capabilities in the Indian Telecom Software Sector Understanding Technological Change Trade Relations of Korea and Japan Moving Beyond the Commodity Trap? Knowledge Management: A New Perspective for Development Strategy Moving Beyond the Commodity Trap? Gambling on a Gambler Global Production Networks and the Changing Geography of Innovation Systems The Economics of Electronics Industry Information Technology in the Learning Economy Placing the Networks on the Web The Impact of Imported and Domestic Technologies on Productivity Coups, Conflicts, and Crises Crisis of Cross-Border Knowledge Diffusion Catching-Up and Post-Crisis Industrial Upgrading Inter-Organizational Knowledge Outsourcing Corruption and Public Trust: Perspectives on Japan and East Asia Saving, Wealth and the Democratic Transition in East Asia Materials for the Demographic History of Southeast Asia

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