Economics Working Papers

This paper provides the first evidence that countries with high education levels were more successful in developing comparative advantage in products unrelated to those they already export.

Amid high reliance on United States (US) dollar-denominated funding, this paper finds changes in exchange rates affect sovereign credit risk premiums in selected emerging Asian economies.

This paper examines gender among other factors that may constrain older persons in Southeast Asia from meeting their health-care needs based on data from Cambodia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam.

This paper uses proprietary panel data to investigate the possible drivers of business-to-consumer (B2C) online commerce growth, such as internet access and speed, online security, and financial inclusiveness.

This study examines an alternative approach in estimating poverty by investigating whether readily available geospatial data can accurately predict the spatial distribution of poverty in Thailand.

This working paper explains how to derive indicators for a country's wellness sector using the system of national accounts framework. It also provides estimates of these indicators for 10 countries in developing Asia across 2 time periods.

This study outlines a computational framework to enhance the spatial granularity of government-published poverty estimates, citing data from the Philippines and Thailand.

How sensitive to corporate tax rates is inward foreign direct investment from the United States to developing Asia?

This paper analyzes actions and financial packages implemented to combat the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic by ADB’s 68 members, the European Central Bank, and the European Union.

This paper explains why "monetization"—commonly equated with "printing money"—is operationally impossible and why inflationary concerns are misplaced, drawing on coronavirus disease (COVID-19) policy responses of selected countries.