This major book from ADBI Press aims to provide the latest scientific evidence on infrastructure investment, including new ideas as to how to finance infrastructure. The editors believe the 500-page book will make an important contribution to help Asia and the Pacific region close their infrastructure gap and continue on the path to prosperity.

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. Growing Central Bank Challenges in the World and Japan offers insights for central banks looking to tackle the most pressing challenges under the global spotlight, starting with low inflation and its related impacts on unconventional ...

Macroeconomic Stabilization in the Digital Age provides insights into factors affecting the macroeconomic management of the economy in the digital age. Policy makers need to be aware of the increasing prominence of the digital economy and digital finance and seek to understand better how continued digitalization will affect policies aimed at managing the economy. For emerging market economies (EMEs), ...

The objective of this book is to take stock of the challenges faced by SMEs in the CAREC landlocked economies in terms of their access to finance in view of the above-mentioned constraints. This includes identifying cultural, procedural, institutional, and regulatory incentives, disincentives, and barriers faced by SMEs to access finance, and the reasons for the lack of such access. The study also ...

Tax and Development: Challenges in Asia and the Pacific is an anthology by contributors who have been involved in the activities of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the ADB Institute on fiscal policy and taxation in various capacities. While the contributors have different backgrounds, they have worked for one common cause, namely, the development of the Asia and Pacific region with respect to ...

Although emerging economies as a group performed well during the global recession, weathering the recession better than advanced economies, there were sharp differences among them and across regions. The emerging economies of Asia had the most favorable outcomes, surviving the ravages of the global financial crisis with relatively modest declines in growth rates in most cases. China and India ...

This report analyzes labor migration trends in Asia and puts them in the context of demographic and policy trends. It provides an overview of the population trends in different Asian countries and looks at policy settings in several sending and destination countries of labor migrants. It examines different approaches to effective labor migration management, including the imposition and regulation ...

Financial inclusion is receiving increasing attention as having the potential to contribute to economic and financial development, while at the same time fostering more inclusive growth and greater income equality. However, although substantial progress has been made, there is still much to achieve. East Asia, the Pacific, and South Asia combined account for 55% of the world’s unbanked adults, mainly ...

The objective of this book is to take stock of the challenges faced by SMEs in the CAREC landlocked economies in terms of their access to finance. This includes identifying cultural, procedural, institutional, and regulatory incentives, disincentives, and barriers faced by SMEs to access finance, and the reasons for the lack of such access. The study also assesses opportunities for SMEs to link with ...

While financial inclusion is a recent term, it is clear from the country case studies in this volume that for many years governments have recognized the need to extend access to financial services. They have sought measures to promote it through public sector banks, agriculture credit programs, and micro and small enterprise credit programs. At the same time, the microfinance revolution, pioneered ...