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The Asia Bond Monitor reviews recent developments in East Asian local currency bond markets along with outlook, risks, and policy challenges. It covers the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus the People's Republic of China; Hong Kong, China; and the Republic of Korea.

How to build bridges to export markets so that people in the economic periphery have a better opportunity to take poverty off their own maps.

In this issue: Demographic Dividends Revisited, Princelings and Paupers? State Employment and the Distribution of Human Capital Investments Among Households in Viet Nam, Foreign Firms and Indigenous Technology Development in the People’s Republic of China, Dynamics of Household Assets and Income Shocks in the Long-run Process of Economic Development: The Case of Rural Pakistan, Inequality of Human Opportunities in Developing Asia, Political Connection and Firm Value.

This flyer gives an overview of the findings of a study financed by ADB that examined the funding needs of developing member countries in the Pacific that will enable them to adapt to the challenges posed by climate change.

The paper reviews the links between the housing sector, the financial sector, and inclusive growth.

This paper presents estimates using a Global Vector Autoregression model of the direct impacts in Southeast Asia of a further shock to the eurozone.

The Financial Inclusion Newsletter serves as a forum for experts to share views, insights, and experiences.

This edition of the Pacific Economic Monitor updates 2013 and 2014 GDP growth and inflation projections for ADB's Pacific developing member countries. The theme of the policy briefs included in this issue is regional cooperation and integration.

In this issue of e-Quarterly Research Bulletin: Are Government-linked Corporations Crowding Out Private Investment in Malaysia?; The Service Sector in Lower-income Asian Economies; and Sovereign Risk, Elections, and Contagion.

This study finds that financial shocks originating from both advanced and emerging economies exert significant influence on domestic financial stress of emerging market economies using a financial stress index (FSI), with regional relative to non-regional financial shocks having a greater impact on domestic financial stress in the case of emerging Asia.