Research
Links to recent research articles, books, and publications by Asia Programs staff.
Anthony Saich
"Asian Flus in Ethnographic and Political Context: A Biosocial Approach." (With Kleinman, Arthur M., Barry R. Bloom, Katherine A. Mason, and Felicity Aulino), Anthropology & Medicine 15.1 (April 2008): 1-5.
"Avian and Pandemic Influenza: A Biosocial Approach." (With Kleinman, Arthur M., Barry R. Bloom, Katherine A. Mason, and Felicity Aulino), Journal of Infectious Diseases 197 (February 15, 2008): S1-S3.
"Citizens' Perceptions of Governance in Rural and Urban China." Journal of Chinese Political Science 12.1 (Spring 2007): 1-28.
"China in 2006: Focus on Social Development." Asian Survey 47.1 (February 2007): 32-43.
"China in 2005: Hu's in Charge." Asian Survey 46.1 (February 2006): 37-46.
David Dapice
"Vietnam's Economy: Success Story or Weird Dualism? A SWOT Analysis," May 2003.
"Helping Vietnam to Make Better Choices: A Discussion Paper," August 2002.
"Success and Failure: Choosing the Right Path to Export-Led Growth," June 2002.
"Choices and Opportunities: Roads Open to Vietnam," September 2000.
"Promoting Science in Vietnam for National Development," October 2000.
"Overview of the Vietnamese Economy after the Asian Crisis," December 2000.
"Vietnam and the Asia: Selective Recovery from the Asian Crisis?" March 2000.
"Trade and Industrial Development Strategies for Ha Long Bay," presented at a World Bank Conference on the Development of the Ha Long Bay Region, April 1999.
Jay Rosengard
Funding Economic Development: A Comparative Study of Financial Sector Reform in Vietnam and China (with Huỳnh Thế Du), (Hanoi: United Nations Development Programme and the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program, forthcoming).
Innovative Real Estate Taxes and Fees to Finance Municipal Public Infrastructure and Services in Vietnam, confidential policy note prepared for the Vietnam Ministry of Finance Policy Advisory Group, Hanoi, August 2008.
¿Qué Pasó? Failure of the Commercial Financial Sector to Deliver Microfinance Services in Mexico, Paper Presented at the Forum on Microfinance, Monterrey, Mexico, 9-10 November 2007.
Jakarta (with assistance from research team) (Hanoi: United Nations Development Programme and the Institute for Economic Research of Ho Chi Minh City, June 2007).
Paying for Urban Infrastructure and Services: A Comparative Study of Municipal Finance in Ho Chi Minh City, Shanghai, and Jakarta (Hanoi: United Nations Development Programme and the Institute for Economic Research of Ho Chi Minh City, June 2007).
“The Promise and the Peril of Microfinance Institutions in Indonesia” (with Richard H. Patten, Don E. Johnston, Jr and Widjojo Koesoemo), Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, vol. 43, no. 1 (April 2007), pp. 87-112.
Sustainable and Effective Microfinance: Reconciling Commercial Viability and Poverty Alleviation Objectives, Paper Presented at the Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Microcredit, Rome, 5-6 December 2005.
“SymBanc™: A Simulator for Microfinance Institutions” (with Gary B. Hirsch, Guy Stuart, and Don E. Johnston, Jr.), in ADB Finance for the Poor, vol. 6, no. 4 (December 2005), pp. 8-15.
Review of Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements, and Gabriela Inchauste, eds., Helping Countries Develop: The Role of Fiscal Policy (Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 2004), in Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, vol. 19, no. 2 (November 2005).
SymBanc™: A Simulator for Microfinance Institutions (with Gary B. Hirsch, Guy Stuart, and Don E. Johnston, Jr.), Paper Presented at The 2005 International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, Boston, 17 – 21 July 2005.
“Will Bank Bailouts Bust Budgets? Fiscalisation of the East Asian Financial Crisis,” in Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, vol. 18, no. 2 (November 2004), pp. 19-29.
“Banking on Social Entrepreneurship: The Commercialization of Microfinance,” in Mondes en Développement, vol. 32-2004/2, no. 126 (September 2004), pp. 25-36.
"National Markets and Institutions to Support Financial Development in East Asia," (with Gordon de Brouwer and Masahiro Kawai), Paper Presented at the Conference on Institutional Development in Finance in East Asia, Bangkok, November 2003.
"Improving Access to Financial Services for Low-Income Households and Microenterprises in Indonesia: The Potential for Further Development of Local Government-Owned Financial Institutions," (with Richard Patten, Don Johnston, and Widjojo Koesoemo)
"Microfinance Success Amid Macroeconomic Failure: The Experience of Bank Rakyat Indonesia During the East Asia Crisis," World Development Vol. 29 No. 6, June 2001.
"Kinks in the Links: Financial Intermediation for Africa's Poor," March 2001.
"Doing Well By Doing Good: The Future of Microfinance via Regulated Financial Institutions," III Inter-American Forum on MicroEnterprise, October 2000.
Julian Chang
Presidential Politics in Taiwan: The Administration of Chen Shui-bian, Steven M. Goldstein and Julian Chang, editors, EastBridge Books, 2008.
"Economic Reform and Cross-Strait Relations," 2007.