Rakesh Basant, Pankaj Chandra, Kaoru Nabeshima, Gayatri Saberwal, Shahid Yusuf
This paper explores the role played by academic institutions in Bangalore and Pune cities of India. It shows that there exists a large variety of linkages between industry and academia in the two...
Productivity or Endowments? Sectoral Evidence for Hong Kong’s Aggregate Growth 1 (2007)
Hiau Looi Kee, Deborah Swenson, Catherine Morrison Paul, Kaoru Nabeshima, Mary Amiti
This paper provides sectoral evidence that sheds new light on the current debate regarding the sources of growth of the East Asian miracle. We test both the productivity-driven and endowment-driven...
What drives Japanese FDI decisions? : a firm-level analysis / (2001)
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 127-129).
What drives Japanese FDI decisions : a firm-level analysis / (2001)
Degree granted in Economics.
Raising the quality of secondary education in East Asia
The author seeks to broaden our understanding of the determinants of student achievement among East Asian economies using the TIMSS-R data set and, in the process, to remedy some of the ambiguities...
Yusuf, Shahid, Nabeshima, Kaoru, Wei Ha
The benefits of good health to individuals and to society are strongly positive and improving the health of the poor is a key Millennium Development Goal. A typical health strategy advocated by some...
Income and Health in Cities: the Messages from Stylized Facts
Yusuf, Shahid, Nabeshima, Kaoru, Ha, Wei
The benefits of good health to individuals and to society are strongly positive, and improving the health of the poor is a key millennium development goal (MDG). A typical health strategy advocated...
Strengthening China's technological capability
Yusuf, Shahid, Nabeshima, Kaoru
China is increasing its outlay on research and development and seeking to build an innovation system that will deliver quick results not just in absorbing technology but also in pushing the...
Japan's changing industrial landscape
Yusuf, Shahid, Nabeshima, Kaoru
This paper explores various strategic options available to Japanese firms faced with the increasing market pressures in the global economy. Whether Japanese firms are able to retain the competitive...
Two decades of reform : the changing organization dynamics of Chinese industrial firms
Yusuf, Shahid, Nabeshima, Kaoru
Since the early 1980s, China has begun gradually integrating with the global system. In doing so the country has moved toward its own unique brand of market socialism, which recognizes private...
Can Malaysia escape the middle-income Trap ? a strategy for Penang
Yusuf , Shahid, Nabeshima, Kaoru
How can Penang upgrade and diversify its economy? This paper addresses this question using a number of methodologies that have been developed for assessing competitiveness and identifying the...