Disaster relief has been a channel for trust-building and reassurance between Southeast Asia and China since the 1990s. The signing of the ASEAN-China…

NTS Bulletin is a monthly periodical that discusses current issues concerning Climate change, Energy, food, water and Health security; Humanitarian…

This report evaluates the attractiveness of the Viet Nam bond market from a global credit rating agency’s perspective. It concludes that the business…

Development Research News is a quarterly publication of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS). It highlights the findings and…

Global diversification of financial institutions, including the insurance sector, has proven beneficial to many economies by providing them with…

In the last few decades, there has been a global trend of liberalization of the domestic insurance sector. While the United Kingdom and the United…

The New Zealand agri-food system seems to have performed well through the COVID pandemic and various alert levels. There were some hiccoughs – queues…

Preliminary data from the Central Bureau of Statistics indicate that gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to grow by 2.3% in fiscal year 2020 (…

On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as a pandemic. Since then, many countries across…

Indonesia and Malaysia are keen to use Chinese investments in industrial parks to foster industrial development in their respective countries. This…

We analyze state-level matching efficiencies in the Indian labor market using stochastic frontier analysis. The key contribution of this research is…

This paper investigates the impact of the effective minimum wage, defined as the log difference between the minimum and the median wages, on wage…