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Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: Introduction -- Introduction to Regional Growth and Sustainable Development in Asia -- 1 Preliminaries -- 2 Poverty -- 2.1 Regional Disparities and Poverty in the Philippines -- 2.2 Decomposition of Poverty in India -- 2.3 Rural Poverty and Agriculture in the Philippines -- 3 Energy and Climate Change -- 3.1 Petroleum Subsidies in Indonesia -- 3.2 Energy-Environment-Economic Efficiency in Asian Nations -- 3.3 Climate Change and Malaysia -- 4 Money and Macroeconomics -- 4.1 Market Microstructure and Asian Banks -- 4.2 Macroeconomic Performance of Indian States -- 5 Ageing, Education, Production, and the Internet -- 5.1 Population Ageing in South Korea -- 5.2 Educational Attainment and Learning in India -- 5.3 Global Production Networks and Penang, Malaysia -- 5.4 The Internet in Nepal -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Poverty -- Spatial Disparitiesand Poverty: The Case of Three Provinces in the Philippines -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Spatial Economic Disparities across the Philippines -- Box 1. Administrative Divisions in the Philippines -- 3 A Closer Look at Pangasinan, Eastern Samar, and Maguindanao -- 3.1 Distinct Characteristics of the Three Provinces -- 3.2 Common Characteristics Among the Poor Households -- 3.2.1 Low Skills and Education -- 3.2.2 High Vulnerability to Shocks -- 3.2.3 Limited Connectivity with Markets -- Box 2 Small Entrepreneurs in Isolated Areas Face High Transaction Costs -- 3.2.4 Lack of Supporting Policy Environment at the Local Level -- 4 Policy Implications -- References -- Decomposing Poverty Change in India: Within- and Between-Group Effects Across Regions, 2004-2005 and 2009-2010 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Method -- 3 Data and Analysis -- 3.1 Incidence of Poverty -- 3.2 Region-Specific Growth, Inequality, and Population Effects

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Introduction to dynamic and stochastic resource economics : essays on biodiversity, invasive species, joint systems, and regulation -- Natural resource management -- On some aspects of the management of a stochastically developing forest -- On the choice between the stocking rate and time in range management / with Basudeb Biswas and E. Bruce Godfrey -- Alternate decision rules, the flexibility premium, and land development over time and under uncertainty -- Alternate strategies for managing resistance to antibiotics and pesticides / with Peter Nijkamp -- Biological diversity -- An optimal stopping approach to the conservation of biodiversity -- Habitat conversion, information acquisition, and the conservation of biodiversity -- A theoretical analysis of habitat conversion and biodiversity conservation over time and under uncertainty -- Ecological economics -- On the optimal management of a class of aquatic ecological-economic systems / with Hamid Beladi -- Necessary and sufficient conditions for the equivalence of economic and ecological criteria in range management -- Aspects of the management of ecological-economic systems with a safe minimum standard -- Invasive species management -- A theoretical analysis of random inspections and fines in invasive species management / with Seung Jick Yoo -- Trade, the damage from alien species, and the effects of protectionism under alternate market structures / with Hamid Beladi -- An analysis of inspections when economic cost reduction matters more than biological invasion damage control -- Environmental regulation -- Consistency and optimality in a dynamic game of pollution control ii: monopoly -- A stochastic model of waste management with on and off site storage / with Luiz P. Freitas -- The impact of innovation on a polluting firm¿s regulation driven decision to upgrade its capital stock / with Peter Nijkamp

AbstractWe study how spillovers from water pollution cleanup in the Ganges affect social welfare in an aggregate economy consisting of Kanpur and Varanasi, two cities through which this river flows. We view pollution cleanup in both cities as a local public good and point out that, if Kanpur cleans up pollution in the Ganges, then Varanasi obtains some spillover benefit and vice versa. In this setting, we first solve for the Nash equilibrium amounts of pollution cleanup in the two cities when decisions about how much pollution to clean up are made simultaneously; next, we determine the equilibrium welfare levels in each city. Second, on the assumption that decisions about how much pollution to clean up are centralized, we compute the amounts of pollution cleanup that maximize aggregate welfare. Finally, we describe an intercity transfer scheme that leads each city to choose noncooperatively in a Nash equilibrium the same pollution cleanup amounts as those that arise when aggregate welfare is maximized.

AbstractWe study pollution in the Ganges River caused by tanneries in the City of Kanpur in India. Two tanneries,
and
, are located on the same bank of the Ganges in Kanpur. Both produce leather, and the production of leather requires the use of chemicals that are toxic to humans. Tannery
is located upstream from tannery
Tannery
's leather production directly depends only on labor use, while tannery
's leather production depends on labor use, the chemical waste generated by tannery
and the natural pollution‐absorbing capacity of the Ganges. In this setting, we accomplish three tasks. First, we determine the equilibrium production of leather by both tanneries in the benchmark case in which there is no pollution. Second, we ascertain how the benchmark equilibrium is altered when tannery
accounts for the negative externality imposed on it by tannery
Finally, we analyze what happens to leather production and to labor use when the two tanneries merge and discuss some policy implications stemming from our research.