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Financial Inclusion in the Digital Age
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2016-12-31)
Financial systems have been expanding, offering more services for savings, credit, investment, insurance, and retirement. However, much remains to be done to provide quality services at low cost to people and small businesses in both urban and rural ...
Divergent Monetary Policies and International Dollar Credit: Evidence from Bank-Level Data
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-05-30)
This paper uses a comprehensive and detailed bank-level data set to study how the divergence of central bank balance sheet policy in the US vis-à-vis the euro area and Japan affects the supply of international US dollar loans by global banks. Our ...
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Thailand: Time to Acknowledge Precarity?
(ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2020-10-19)On 5 March, the World Bank released a report entitled Taking the Pulse of Poverty and Inequality in Thailand. This report was keenly anticipated, as the past decade has seen mounting concern over economic inequality in the country. In the event, findings ... -
Specific Human Capital and Skills in Indian Manufacturing: Observed Wage and Tenure Relationships from a Worker Survey
(Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2020-10-15)It is an overarching and persistent fact that job creation in the Indian manufacturing sector has fallen short of the growth in the workforce. The successive governments since 2009 onwards have attempted to initiate policies to enhance the growth in ... -
Energy Supply Security Study for Myanmar
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2020-10-15)Myanmar is a country in Southeast Asia endowed with rich natural resources such as crude oil, natural gas, hydropower, biomass, and coal. Myanmar’s proven energy reserves in 2017 comprised 105 million barrels of oil, 6.58 trillion cubic feet of gas, ... -
Specific Human Capital and Skills in Indian Manufacturing: Observed Wage and Tenure Relationships from a Worker Survey: Executive Summary
(Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2020-10-15)Current strategies to skill the workforce do not attempt to strengthen labour market institutions that can guarantee long term employment and real wage stability – instead as time has gone by, the labour protection regime has only been weakened. This ... -
Trajectories to High Income: Growth Dynamics in Japan, the People’s Republic of China, and the Republic of Korea
(Asian Development Bank, 2020-10-15)We analyze and compare the patterns of economic growth and development in the Japan, the People’s Republic of China, and the Republic of Korea in the postwar period. The geographical proximity and cultural affinity between the three countries, as well ... -
The Impact of Vocational Training on Labor Market Outcomes in the Philippines
(Asian Development Bank, 2020-10-15)The paper analyzes the labor market outcomes of graduates of post-secondary technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in the Philippines. Based on human capital theory, our guiding assumption is that investment in education is rewarded ... -
Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures: Results and Methodology
(Asian Development Bank, 2020-10-15)This publication provides a comprehensive account of the 2017 International Comparison Program (ICP) cycle for 22 economies in Asia and the Pacific. It provides in-depth analyses of estimates of purchasing power parities (PPPs), total and per capita ... -
Office of the Special Project Facilitator’s Lessons Learned: Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program, Tranche 3 in Georgia
(Asian Development Bank, 2020-10-08)The Office of the Special Project Facilitator (OSPF) is responsible for the problem-solving function of the Accountability Mechanism of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). It aims to actively respond to the concerns of people affected by ADB-assisted ... -
Employment and Income Dynamics in Georgia
(Policy and Management Consulting Group, 2020-10-07)The COVID-19 pandemic, and the subsequent „Great Lockdown“, has induced workplace closures and other associated measures all around the world. Due to stalled economic activity, many businesses have had to lay off their workers and, according to the ... -
Ukrainian Economy - Overview, 2010-2019
(Policy and Management Consulting Group, 2020-10-06)In the very first edition of PMC Research Center Ukraine’s Economic Outlook and Indicators, we present an overview and analysis of the dynamics of Ukraine’s main economic indicators over the last decade, such as GDP, inflation, exchange rates, foreign ...