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New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives 7 Amitrajeet A. Batabyal Peter Nijkamp E ditors Regional Growth and Sustainable Development in Asia New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives Volume 7 EditorinChief YoshiroHigano,UniversityofTsukuba,Tsukuba,Ibaraki,Japan ManagingEditors MakotoTawada(GeneralManagingEditor),AichiGakuinUniversity KiyokoHagihara,BukkyoUniversity LilyKiminami,NiigataUniversity EditorialBoard SakaiYasuhiro(AdvisorChiefJapan),ShigaUniversity YasuhideOkuyama,UniversityofKitakyushu ZhengWang,ChineseAcademyofSciences YuzuruMiyata,ToyohashiUniversityofTechnology HiroyukiShibusawa,ToyohashiUniversityofTechnology SaburoSaito,FukuokaUniversity MakotoOkamura,HiroshimaUniversity MorikiHosoe,KumamotoGakuenUniversity BudyPrasetyoResosudarmo,CrawfordSchoolofPublicPolicy,ANU Shin-KunPeng,AcademiaSinica GeoffreyJohnDennisHewings,UniversityofIllinois EuijuneKim,SeoulNationalUniversity SrijitMishra,IndiraGandhiInstituteofDevelopmentResearch AmitrajeetA.Batabyal,RochesterInstituteofTechnology YizhiWang,ShanghaiAcademyofSocialSciences DanielShefer,Technion-IsraelInstituteofTechnology AkiraKiminami,TheUniversityofTokyo AdvisoryBoard Peter Nijkamp (Chair, Ex Officio Member of Editorial Board), Free University Amsterdam RachelS.Franklin,BrownUniversity MarkD.Partridge,OhioStateUniversity JacquesPoot,UniversityofWaikato AuraReggiani,UniversityofBologna New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives Thisseriesisaconstellationofworksbyscholarsinthefieldofregionalscienceandin relateddisciplinesspecificallyfocusingondynamisminAsia. Asia is the most dynamic part of the world. Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore experiencedrapidandmiracleeconomicgrowthinthe1970s.Malaysia,Indonesia,and Thailandfollowedinthe1980s.China,India,andVietnamarenowrisingcountriesin Asiaandareevenleadingtheworldeconomy.Duetotheirrapideconomicdevelopment andgrowth,Asiancountriescontinuetofaceavarietyofurgentissuesincludingregional andinstitutionalunbalancedgrowth,environmentalproblems,povertyamidstprosperity, anageingsociety,thecollapseofthebubbleeconomy,anddeflation,amongothers. Asiancountriesarediversifiedastheyhavetheirowncultural,historical,andgeograph- ical as well as political conditions. Due to this fact, scholars specializing in regional scienceasaninter-andmultidisciplinehavetakenleadingrolesinprovidingmitigating policy proposals based on robust interdisciplinary analysis of multifaceted regional issues and subjects in Asia. This series not only will present unique research results fromAsiathatareunfamiliarinotherpartsoftheworldbecauseoflanguagebarriers, butalsowillpublishadvancedresearchresultsfromthoseregionsthathavefocusedon regionalandurbanissuesinAsiafromdifferentperspectives. Theseriesaimstoexpandthefrontiersofregionalsciencethroughdiffusionofintrin- sically developed and advanced modern regional science methodologies in Asia and other areas of the world. Readers will be inspired to realize that regional and urban issuesintheworldaresovastthattheirestablishedmethodologiesstillhavespacefor developmentandrefinement,andtounderstandtheimportanceoftheinterdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach that is inherent in regional science for analyzing and resolvingurgentregionalandurbanissuesinAsia. Topics under consideration in this series include the theory of social cost and benefit analysisandcriteriaofpublicinvestments,socioeconomicvulnerabilityagainstdisas- ters,foodsecurityandpolicy,agro-foodsystemsinChina,industrialclusteringinAsia, comprehensive management of water environment and resources in a river basin, the international trade bloc and food security, migration and labor market in Asia, land policy and local property tax, information and communication technology planning, consumer“shop-around”movements,andregenerationofdowntowns,amongothers. Moreinformationaboutthisseriesathttp://www.springer.com/series/13039 Amitrajeet A. Batabyal • Peter Nijkamp Editors Regional Growth and Sustainable Development in Asia Editors AmitrajeetA.Batabyal PeterNijkamp DepartmentofEconomics DepartmentofSpatialEconomics RochesterInstituteofTechnology TinbergenInstitute Rochester,NY,USA Amsterdam,TheNetherlands ISSN2199-5974 ISSN2199-5982 (electronic) NewFrontiersinRegionalScience:AsianPerspectives ISBN978-3-319-27587-1 ISBN978-3-319-27589-5 (eBook) DOI10.1007/978-3-319-27589-5 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2016959989 ©SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland2017 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartof the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publicationdoesnotimply,evenintheabsenceofaspecificstatement,thatsuchnamesareexempt fromtherelevantprotectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreeforgeneraluse. Thepublisher,theauthorsandtheeditorsaresafetoassumethattheadviceandinformationinthis book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained hereinorforanyerrorsoromissionsthatmayhavebeenmade. Printedonacid-freepaper ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbySpringerNature TheregisteredcompanyisSpringerInternationalPublishingAG Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland One’s days were too brief to take the burden of another’s errors on one’s shoulders. Each man lived his ownlife and paid his own price for living it. Theonly pity was onehad topay sooftenforasinglefault.Onehadtopayover and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, destiny never closed her accounts. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde Acknowledgments Thisbookwouldnothavebeenpossiblewithouttheassistanceofseveralscholars dispersedthroughouttheworld.Hence,wewouldliketothankthecontributorsof theindividualchaptersofthisbookfortheirenthusiasticparticipationinthistime- consuming project. The enthusiasm of the contributors is richly on display in the high qualitychapters they have written on various aspects ofregional growth and sustainabledevelopmentinAsia,thesubjectmatterofthisbook. Batabyal would like to acknowledge the support he received from Swapna B. Batabyal and Sanjana S. Batabyal during the long gestation period of this book. In addition, he would like to recognize the financial support he received fromtheGosnellendowmentattheRochesterInstituteofTechnology.Finally,he would like to dedicate this book to the memory of Balarka A. Batabyal (1966–2010). Nijkamp thanks the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam and A.Mickiewicz UniversityinPoznan,Poland,forprovidinganintellectually stim- ulatingenvironmentduringthepreparationofthisbook. Rochester,NewYork AmitrajeetA.Batabyal Amsterdam,TheNetherlands PeterNijkamp August2016 vii Contents PartI Introduction 1 IntroductiontoRegionalGrowthandSustainable DevelopmentinAsia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 AmitrajeetA.BatabyalandPeterNijkamp PartII Poverty 2 SpatialDisparitiesandPoverty:TheCaseofThreeProvinces inthePhilippines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 RonaldU.Mendoza,RosechinOlfindo,andCamilleReginaMaala 3 DecomposingPovertyChangeinIndia:Within- andBetween-GroupEffectsAcrossRegions,2004–2005 and2009–2010. . . .. . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . .. . 41 SrijitMishra 4 PathwaysOutofRuralPovertyandtheRoleofAgriculture inFourRiceEcosystemsintheRuralPhilippines. . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 NobuhikoFuwaandEstherB.Marciano PartIII EnergyandClimateChange 5 ReducingPetroleumSubsidyinIndonesia:AnInterregional GeneralEquilibriumAnalysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 AriefA.Yusuf,AriantoA.Patunru,andBudyP.Resosudarmo 6 AnEvaluationofEnergy-Environment-EconomicEfficiency forAsianCountries:AProposalforaTime-Series Target-OrientedDFMModelinDataEnvelopment Analysis. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 113 SoushiSuzukiandPeterNijkamp ix x Contents 7 ClimateChangeandThreatstoSustainabilityinSouth EastAsia:DynamicModellingApproachforMalaysia. . . . . . . . . 133 GaminiHerathandAkramHasanov PartIV MoneyandMacroeconomics 8 LearningAbouttheRoleofMarketMicro-StructurefromHigh- FrequencyDataonAsianBanks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 BiplobChowdhury,MardiDungey,NagaratnamJeyasreedharan, andMohammadAbuSayeed 9 DynamicMacroeconomicPerformanceofIndianStates: SomePost-ReformEvidence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 DebashisAcharyaandBireshK.Sahoo PartV Ageing,Education,Production,andtheInternet 10 DynamicImpactofPopulationAgingonRegionalEconomies inKoreaUsingaRecursive-DynamicInterregional CGE-PopulationModel. . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. 201 EuijuneKim,GeoffreyJ.D.Hewings,andChangkeunLee 11 EducationalAttainmentandLearninginIndia,2004–2012. . . . . . 221 FarzanaAfridiandBidishaBarooah 12 SMEParticipationinGlobalProductionNetworks: AnalyticalIssuesandEvidencefromPenang,Malaysia. . . . . . . . . 237 Prema-ChandraAthukorala 13 TheInternetinNepal:WiMAXBroadbandService. . . . . . . . . . . . 263 JitendraParajuliandKingsleyE.Haynes Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 Contributors Debashis Acharya School of Economics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India Farzana Afridi Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi,India Prema-chandraAthukorala Arndt-CordenDepartmentofEconomics,Crawford SchoolofEconomicsandGovernment,CollegeofAsiaandthePacific,Australian NationalUniversity,Canberra,ACT,Australia BidishaBarooah InternationalInitiativeforImpactEvaluation,NewDelhi,India Amitrajeet A.Batabyal Department ofEconomics,Rochester InstituteofTech- nology,Rochester,NY,USA BiplobChowdhury TasmanianSchoolofBusinessandEconomics,Universityof Tasmania,Hobart,TAS,Australia Mardi Dungey Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania,Hobart,TAS,Australia NobuhikoFuwa GraduateSchoolofPublicPolicy,UniversityofTokyo,Tokyo, Japan AkramHasanov SchoolofBusiness,MonashUniversityMalaysia,JalanLagoon Selatan,BandarSunway46150,Selangor,Malaysia Kingsley E. Haynes Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University,Arlington,VA22201,USA MelbourneSustainableSocietyInstitute,UniversityofMelbourne,Australia Gamini Herath School of Business, Monash University Malaysia, Jalan Lagoon Selatan,BandarSunway46150,Selangor,Malaysia GeoffreyJ.D.Hewings RegionalEconomicsApplicationsLaboratory,University ofIllinois,Urbana-Champaign,IL,USA xi
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