DiCaprio, Alisa

Biography

Alisa DiCaprio has been a research fellow at ADBI since February 2016. Her research explores ways to make trade a more effective development tool. In particular, she highlights nontraditional trade topics, including trade finance gaps, e-commerce, and fragile and landlocked states. She is on secondment from the Asian Development Bank, where she is a regional cooperation specialist with the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department. Previously, she worked at the United Nations University’s World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki, Finland. She did her postdoctoral fellowship at New York University. Her PhD is from MIT, and she holds a BA and MA from Johns Hopkins University. In addition to her academic work, she has worked in the public and private sector supporting US trade policy, researching emerging market opportunities for exporters, and organizing unions in the healthcare sector.

Departments
Asian Development Bank Institute
Position / Title

Research Economist

Current research programs / themes
Trade
Last updated April 5, 2017


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    Women and Trade: Gender's Impact on Trade Finance and Fintech 

    DiCaprio, Alisa; Yao, Ying; Simms, Rebecca (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-12-30)
    Woman-owned firms engage differently with finance for trade. The barriers they face in starting and running a business are well-known. Yet, this offers little insight into how they finance their business once globalized. Surveys indicate that finance ...
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    The Impact of Trade and Technology on Skills in Viet Nam 

    Poole, Jennifer P.; Santos-Paulino, Amelia U.; Sokolova, Maria V.; DiCaprio, Alisa (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-08-15)
    Market-oriented reforms, such as liberalizing trade and encouraging foreign direct investment, can generate large efficiency gains for a country. However, there is also concern that lower-skilled workers are increasingly being replaced by technology ...
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    Are Least Developed Countries Sidelined in Advanced Manufacturing Production Networks? 

    DiCaprio, Alisa; Suvannaphakdy, Sithanonxay (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-04-30)
    The fragmentation of production has expanded the geographic reach of even the most high-technology value chains into non-traditional suppliers. It has been suggested that the production of parts for high-technology final products can play an important ...
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    Why Trade Finance Gaps Persist: Does it Matter for Trade and Development? 

    Auboin, Marc; DiCaprio, Alisa (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-03-30)
    Trade finance shortfalls now appear regularly. Does this matter for trade expansion and economic development in developing countries? Global trade finance has resumed following the 2009 global financial crisis. However, the pattern of recovery has been ...
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    Drivers of Trade Finance Gaps 

    DiCaprio, Alisa; Yao, Ying (Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-02-28)
    Banks are a critical facilitator of trade. Without bank-intermediated trade finance, global exports and imports would come to a halt. This has been apparent during the episodes of credit rationing that accompany financial shocks. But we have little ...
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    2015 Trade Finance Gaps, Growth, and Jobs Survey 

    DiCaprio, Alisa; Beck, Steven; Daquis, John Carlo (Asian Development Bank, 2015-11-04)
    Respondents to this survey believe the availability of trade finance has improved globally. However, data indicate that gaps are increasingly pronounced in emerging economies. The geographic concentration of trade finance shortfalls appears to be driven ...
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    Assessing the trade impacts of the ASEAN +6 FTA: the case of Lao People’s Democratic Republic 

    Suvannaphakdy, Sithanonxay; Tang, Hsiao Chink; DiCaprio, Alisa (Asian Development Bank, 2014-04-01)
    Using an unbalanced panel dataset of bilateral exports from 1992 to 2009, this paper assesses the potential trade impacts of the expansion of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to ASEAN+3 and ASEAN+6 on the Lao People’s Democratic ...
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    Operationalizing Experience: Donor Approaches to Service Delivery in Fragile States 

    DiCaprio, Alisa (Asian Development Bank, 2013-02-01)
    This study explores the different approaches to service delivery in fragile states by surveying donors' own evaluations of their existing fragile states policies. Because there is limited understanding of what works in risky environments, monitoring ...