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Sayuri Shirai
Sayuri Shirai of the Asian Development Bank Institute explores innovative financing schemes suitable for emerging and developing economies to help achieve climate and environmental goals.
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Global Climate Challenges, Innovative Finance, and Green Central Banking
Central banks, financial institutions, and large companies are increasingly embracing green finance and investment to meet climate goals and achieve carbon neutrality.
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History of Bank of Japan’s More Than Two Decades of Unconventional Monetary Easing with Special Emphasis on the Frameworks Pursued in the Last 10 Years
The Bank of Japan has not only been a pioneer in pursuing unconventional monetary policy, but has also become a reference point for other central banks.
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Green Central Banking and Regulation to Foster Sustainable Finance
Central banks and financial regulators should treat climate risk as one of the major financial risks.
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An Overview of Climate Change, the Environment, and Innovative Finance in Emerging and Developing Economies
Investment in clean energy projects has been severely inadequate due to poor climate policy implementation and limited capital inflows to fund decarbonization efforts.
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Growing Central Bank Challenges in the World and Japan: Low Inflation, Monetary Policy, and Digital Currency
Central banks are facing a range of growing challenges that have arisen from recent trends in aging populations, low productivity, and new technology and innovation.
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Money and Central Bank Digital Currency
Given technology's rapid progress, it is possible that central banks may increase their interest in digital currency proposals based on distributed ledger technology.
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What Explains the Growing Global Demand for Cash?
Cash demand tends to grow with a decline in the policy rates and with an advancement of aging.
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Money and Central Bank Digital Currency
Digital coins have attracted considerable attention globally because of their potential to serve as a new type of payment tool.
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The Bank of Japan's Super-Easy Monetary Policy From 2013–2018
Unconventional monetary easing by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) since 2013 has contributed to the yen’s depreciation, higher stock prices, and higher corporate profits.
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Bank of Japan’s Exchange-Traded Fund Purchases as an Unprecedented Monetary Easing Policy
The Bank of Japan’s purchase of exchange-traded funds under monetary easing policy is unprecedented in scale and duration among major central banks.
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Central Bank Digital Currency and Fintech in Asia
The development of financial technology has already radically altered the landscape of the financial system in Asia and promises to have an even greater impact in coming years.
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Investments that Consider Environment, Social, and Corporate Governance Issues Can Help Reduce Carbon Emissions
More funds should be allocated to innovative firms and essential projects in the areas of renewable energy, electronic vehicles, storage batteries, hydrogen technology, and carbon capture, usage, and storage.