Finance
Theme curator: Yoshino, Naoyuki
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Financial authorities worldwide face these key challenges: maintaining financial stability; ensuring long-term finance for stable economic growth; promoting greater access to financial services for average households and small and medium-sized enterprises; and fostering a competitive but reliable financial industry. What are the latest ideas from Asia to achieve these goals?
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International Remittances and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Asian Developing Countries
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-07-01)
International remittances represent the second most important source of external funding for developing countries after foreign direct investment (FDI). This paper examines the impact of international remittances on poverty reduction using the panel ...
Alternatives to Bank Finance: Role of Carbon Tax and Hometown Investment Trust Funds in Developing Green Energy Projects in Asia
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-07-01)
The main obstacle to developing green energy projects is lack of access to finance. For larger energy projects (e.g., large hydropower projects), insurance and pensions are sustainable financing alternatives. Large energy projects are long-term investment ...
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ADBI Newsletter No. 75
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2022-02-15)This ADBI newsletter is published periodically throughout the year to provide information on current events, seminars and summits, Job opportunities, blogs and news and current publications concerning growth and development in Asia and the Pacific. -
Technical Barriers to Trade, Product Quality and Trade Margins: Firm-level Evidence
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2022-02-15)As tariffs have declined to a low level, the trade literature has paid increasing attention to the impact of non-tariff measures. Unlike tariffs, non-tariff measures could act as both a barrier to trade and a catalyst for quality upgrading. This study ... -
Heterogeneous Effect of Uncertainty on Corporate Investment: Evidence from Listed Firms in the Republic of Korea
(Asian Development Bank, 2022-02-15)In this paper, we analyze the effect of financial uncertainty on corporate investment using firm-level panel data from the Republic of Korea. We find that financial uncertainty has a significant negative effect on corporate investment, and that the ... -
SDPI E-Newsletter on Covid-19: Vol. 3, No. 11-12
(Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2022-02-11)In order to keep abreast of emerging issues at the National/International and local level, the SDPI brings out a Bi-weekly E-Newsletter on “COVID-19” It carries reference information’s to the News items/Comments/Op-Eds appearing in leading ... -
Climate Finance in Southeast Asia: Trends and Opportunities
(ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022-02-09)This article gives an overview of international climate assistance distributed to Southeast Asian countries, provides key trends analysis and highlights gaps in climate assistance mobilised in the region from 2000 to 2019. Using data from the OECD ... -
SDPI E-Newsletter on Covid-19: Vol. 3, No. 7-10
(Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2022-02-04)In order to keep abreast of emerging issues at the National/International and local level, the SDPI brings out a Bi-weekly E-Newsletter on “COVID-19” It carries reference information’s to the News items/Comments/Op-Eds appearing in leading ... -
Boom-bust Cycles Revisited: The Role of Credit Supply
(Korea Development Institute, 2022-02-03)This study investigates the impacts of credit supply on economic growth and financial crisis. Excess credit supply can make the economy and financial markets more vulnerable. While credit supply can drive economic growth by reallocating resources, it ... -
Unborn Tomorrow: Pandemic and Its Impact on the Next Generation
(Korea Development Institute, 2022-02-03)We are in the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. For two years since its outbreak, the virus has been unhurriedly and untiringly spreading with the number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths still soaring to staggering heights. Nearly 300 million ... -
Communicating COVID-19 effectively in Malaysia : Challenges and Recommendations
(ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022-01-30)Malaysia was initially lauded for its ability to combat the first few waves of COVID-19 but infection spikes since the Sabah state elections in September 2020 and subsequent exponential increases in both infections and deaths in 2021 left the nation ... -
Data for Policymaking in the Pandemic Period: The Bangladesh Experience
(Centre for Policy Dialogue, 2022-01-30)In response to the COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh, various government entities have undertaken several data-driven initiatives amid persisting challenges in the data ecosystem. Documenting the new and innovative initiatives and the lessons learnt from ...