Cross-Border Value Chains in Developing Asia Survive Trade Tensions and the Pandemic
Co-author: Reizle Platitas This post draws from a paper presented in the ACAES session on "Asian Economies in Global Supply Chains" at the 2023 Allied Social Science Association Annual Meeting, program here. Asia’s exports doubled from 16
Supply Chain Credit Risk under the Pandemic: Evidence from US Networks with China
Co-authors: John R. Birge; Zi'ang Wang; Jing Wu This post draws from a paper to be presented in the ACAES session on Asian Economies in Global Supply Chains at the 2023 Allied Social Science Association Annual Meeting, program here. The v
Connecting Eurasian Supply Chains: The Impact of Covid-19 and the Russia-Ukraine War on the EU-China Rail Landbridge
This post draws from a paper to be presented in the ACAES session on Asian Economies in Global Supply Chains at the 2023 Allied Social Science Association Annual Meeting, program here. International supply chains are dependent on ease of crossing bor
The Cruel Arithmetic of Income Convergence in East Asia
The promise of development economics is that living standards can be raised significantly and sustainably. More than any other region, East Asia offered the hope that with the right policies, a country could reduce the incidence of severe poverty and
Taiwan's Weathering of 2022 Shocks to Global Capital
US interest rate hikes in 2022 have drawn global capital away from the rest of the world to put downward pressure on currency values vis a vis the dollar. To defend their exchange rates, many Asian central banks have sold off reserves. A future post
A Highly Unequal Crisis: Covid-19's Disproportionate Effects on Southeast Asia's Workers
Co-authors: Souleima El Achkar Hilal; Ian Nicole Generalao; and Rosa Mia Arao This post draws from a paper presented in the ACAES session at the 2022 Allied Social Science Association Annual Meeting, program here. Youtube recording here. The Cov
Economics of the Pandemic, 2021
Updated 2 May to incorporate full year data for 2021. A previous post analyzing the economics of the pandemic for 2020 documented widely divergent experiences in Asia with respect to case numbers, mobility loss, and export impact, and showed all thre
Review of Isabella M. Weber, How China Escaped Shock Therapy
Routledge, May 2021. Isabella M. Weber’s “How China Escaped Shock Therapy” is a painstakingly researched but fundamentally flawed account of one key thread of the economic reform debates that took place in China during the 1980&rsqu
ASSA 2022 Panel on Covid & Recovery in Asia
UPDATE: Our session presentations are posted on the ACAES Youtube channel as follows: Covid-19 and Labor Market Adjustments in Southeast Asia Presenter: Sameer Khatiwada, Asian Development Bank Discussant: Shaianne Osterreich, Ithaca College Mitigate