List of Project Members

DR.SHUJIRO URATA (PROJECT SUPERVISOR): Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies,Waseda University, Japan; Senior Researcher Advisor to the Executive Director, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Indonesia.

DR.CHIN HEE HAHN (PROJECT LEADER) : Senior Research Fellow, Korea Development Institute (KDI), Korea.

DR.DIONISIUS NARJOKO (PROJECT COORDINATOR): Researcher, Economic Research Institute for ASEANand East Asia (ERIA), Indonesia.

DR.TOSHIYUKI MATSUURA: Assistant Professor, Institute of Economic and Industrial Studies, Keio University, Japan.

DR.KAZUNOBU HAYAKAWA: Research Fellow, Inter-disciplinary Studies Center, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan.

DR.YONG-SEOK CHOI: Associate Professor, Kyung Hee University, School of Economics, Korea.

DR.YIFAN ZHANG: Assistant Professor, Department of Economic, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

DR.BISWAJIT DHAR: Director General, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), India.

DR.RAM UPENDRA DAS: Senior Fellow, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), India.

DR.CASSEY LEE HONG KIM: Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, University of Wollongong, Australia.

DR.RAFAELITA ALDABA:Senior Research Fellow, Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), Philippines.

DR.ARCHANUN KOHPAIBOON:: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, Thailand.

DR.PISUT KULTHANAVIT: Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, Thailand.

DR.HARYO ASWICAHYONO: Senior Researcher, Department of Economics, Centre for Strategic andInternational Studies (CSIS), Indonesia.

DR.TEGUH YUDO WICAKSONO: Researcher, Department of Economics, Centre for Strategic andInternational Studies (CSIS), Indonesia.

MR.HOANG VAN THANH: Deputy Director, Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), Vietnam.

MR.PHAM THIEN HOANG: Researcher, Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), Vietnam.

Full Report

RPR-2009-2

Contents

Front cover

Table of Contents

List of Project Members

Executive Summary

Chapter 1. Causes and Consequences of Globalization in EastAsia: What do the Micro Data Analyses Show?

Chapter 2. The Role of Trade Cost on FDI Strategy inHeterogeneous Firms: Evidence from Japanese Firm-level Data

Chapter 3. The Effects of Imported Intermediate Varieties onPlant Total Factor Productivity and Product Switching:Evidence from Korean Manufacturing

Chapter 4. Policy Reforms, Firm Entry, and Labor ProductivityChange: Learning from the Example of Vietnamese Manufacturing

Chapter 5. Micro Study: Philippines; Does Trade ProtectionImprove Firm Productivity? Evidence from Philippine Micro

Chapter 6. Impact of Trade and Investment Liberalization onProductivity in Organized Manufacturing in India

Chapter 7. Productivity Spillovers from Foreign DirectInvestment: The Case of Vietnam

Chapter 8. Trade, Productivity and Innovation: The Case ofMalaysia

Chapter 9. Import-as-market Discipline Hypothesis: Evidencefrom the Thai Manufacturing Sector

Chapter 10. Globalization and Firm Demand for Skilled Labor inChina's Manufacturing Sector

Chapter 11. The Source of Production, Employment andProductivity in Indonesia

Chapter 12. Structural Adjustment and International Migration:Firm Survey Analysis of the Thai Clothing Industry