Regional Growth and Sustainable Development in Asia

Dr. Batabyal has broad research interests and he has worked on problems as diverse as the design of international environmental agreements, the conduct of trade policy by developing nations when their export goods are polluting, the properties of alternate decision making rules in arranged marriages, the management of invasive species, and economic growth in innovative regions.He has published over 500 papers, books, book chapters, and book reviews in a variety of refereed scholarly outlets in ecology, economics, mathematics, operations research, and political science. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Geoffrey J. D. Hewings Award from the North American Regional Science Council in 2003, the Moss Madden Memorial Medal from the British and Irish Section of the Regional Science Association International in 2004, the Outstanding Achievement in Research Award from the Society for Range Management in 2006, and the Trustees Scholarship Award from the RIT Board ofTrustees in 2007.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Spatial Disparities and Poverty: The Case of Three Provinces in the Philippines.- 3. Decomposing Poverty Change in India: Within- and Between-Group Effects Across Regions, 2004-05 and 2009-10.- 4.Pathways Out of Rural Poverty and the Role of Agriculture in Four Rice-Ecosystems in the Rural Philippines.- 5. Reducing Petroleum Subsidy in Indonesia: An Inter-Regional General Equilibrium Analysis.- 6. An Evaluation of Energy-Environment-Economic Efficiency for Asian Countries: A Proposal for a Time-Series Target-Oriented DFM Model in Data Envelopment Analysis.- 7. Climate Change and Threats to Sustainability in South-East Asia: Dynamic Modeling Process for Malaysia.- 8. Learning About the Role of Market Microstructure from High Frequency Data on Asian Banks.- 9. Dynamic Macroeconomic Performance of Indian States: Some Post-Reform Evidence.- 10. Dynamic Impact of Population Ageing on Regional Economies in Korea Using a Recursive-Dynamic Interregional CGE-Population Model.- 11. Educational Attainment and Learning in India, 2004-2012.- 12. SME Participation in Global Production Networks: Analytical Issues and Evidence from Penang, Malaysia.- 13. The Internet in Nepal: WiMAX Broadband Service