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This paper discusses the drivers behind food insecurity in Asia and points to ways to mitigate it.
This paper examines why private investment in Malaysia has never fully recovered from the impact of the Asian financial crisis, and gives opinions on how it can possibly be fixed.
Author(s): Menon, Jayant
This publication reviews recent developments in East Asian local currency bond markets along with the outlook, risks, and policy options.
The annual Asian Development Outlook (ADO) provides a comprehensive analysis of economic performance for the past year and offers forecasts for the next 2 years for the 45 economies in Asia and the Pacific that make up developing Asia.
This study uses a panel database of rural households in Thailand collected from 2008-2010 to investigate the effects of rural-urban migration on economic development.
The report discusses the challenges that Papua New Guinea faces toward a broad-based and inclusive economic growth and propose policy options to overcome these challenges.
In this issue of e-Quarterly News Bulletin: The Working Poor; New Economic Geography and Tax Competition in the PRC: A Firm-Level Data Analysis with Policy Implications; Q&A: CFL Adoption and Energy Usage in Pakistan; Going Regional: How to Deepen ASEAN's Financial Markets; and Confronting Rising Inequality in Asia
This paper proposes a working definition of the middle-income trap, and based on it, identifies the countries that in 2010 were trapped.
Author(s): Felipe, Jesus
This paper discusses why some countries get stuck in the Middle-Income Trap based on the characteristics of products they export and their capacity to undergo structural transformation.
Author(s): Felipe, Jesus
ADB's A. Noy Siackhachanh reviews the progress and proposes additional measures under the Asian Bond Market Initiative to help address the region’s savings-investment imbalances.