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Economic Research Publications
Find the latest key economic, financial, and social indicators in Asia and the Pacific. Access to ADB's statistical resources and research publications is free of charge.
May 2013 | Basic Statistics
Basic Statistics 2013 contains the statistical indicators for 45 economies in the Asia and the Pacific Region. The publication covers the indicators of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) such as the proportion of population living below $1.25 (PPP) a day, infant mortality rate, carbon dioxide emissions. It also contains data on basic economic indicators such as the gross domestic product (GDP), inflation rate, trade balance, external debt, fiscal balance, and others.
May 2013 | Economics Working Papers
This paper reviews the main barriers to growth of the service sectors in six lower-income countries spread across different subregions of developing Asia. It also reviews policy options that can contribute towards the inclusive growth of these countries.
May 2013 | Economics Working Papers
This paper presents evidence of the negative impact government-linked corporations have on private investment in Malaysia due to their dominance over private firms in various sectors.
Author(s): Menon, Jayant | Ng, Thiam Hee
May 2013 | Economics Working Papers
This paper explores the mechanisms through which finance affects corporate investments and capital accumulation. A key feature of this study is the separation of the effects of financial conditions from those of financial development.
Author(s): Wang, Jian-Xin | Gochoco-Bautista, Maria Socorro | Sotocinal, Noli
May 2013 |
This publication examines the impact of the crisis among migrant workers and their families - with a gender perspective - to provide useful information for better evidence-based policy making.
May 2013 | e-Quarterly Research Bulletin
In this issue of e-Quarterly News Bulletin: Innovations and Shortfalls in Fragile State Interventions; A ZEN Approach to Post-2015 Addressing the Range of Perspectives across Asia and the Pacific; Setting Cost Recoverable Tariffs for Expanding Water Services to Poor Households.
April 2013 | Asian Development Outlook
ADB's Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2013 estimates that regional economic growth in the Asia Pacific region will pick up to 6.6% in 2013 and reach 6.7% in 2014. This is a distinct improvement on 2012, when growth stood at just over 6%. Consumer prices are expected to rise by 4.0% in 2013 and 4.2% in 2014, up from 3.7% last year.
April 2013 |
This report presents the analysis on the progress of Bhutan in improving their people’s lives in terms of health, education, employment, income and expenditure, housing, access to public facilities and services, social capital and also in terms of non-traditional measures, such as self-rated poverty and happiness.
March 2013 | Economics Working Papers
This paper examines the empirical implications of technological changes for skill demand and wage inequality in Indonesia.
Author(s): Lee, Jong-Wha | Wie, Dainn
March 2013 | Economics Working Papers
The authors devise an endogenous growth model with human capital accumulation to assess the impact of production complexity on economic output and its rate of growth.
Author(s): Ferrarini, Benno | Scaramozzino, Pasquale