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This study investigates how peer-to-peer (P2P) lending—also known as crowdlending or debt-based crowdfunding—can be expanded to fill…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Oh, Eun Young|Rosenkranz, Peter

Other

19 Mar 2020

As the digital economy continues to evolve, we are seeing a rising call for both balance and fairness. The concerns for an appropriate…

This ADBI newsletter is published periodically throughout the year to provide information on current events, seminars and summits, Job…

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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Asian Development Bank Institute

Higher financial literacy is positively associated with a higher likelihood of using fintech services but negatively correlated with…

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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Yoshino, Naoyuki|Morgan, Peter J.|Long, Trinh Q.

Japan

17 Mar 2020

The Philippines is slowly ageing. In a little over a decade, the country’s elderly will comprise at least 7 percent of the total…

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Philippine Institute for Development Studies

Abrigo, Michael R.M.|Racelis, Rachel H.|Salas, J.M. Ian|Herrin, Alejandro N.|Ortiz, Danica A.P.|Tam, Zhandra C.

The latest NZIER Consensus Forecasts highlights the large degree of uncertainty over the effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak on…

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New Zealand Institute of Economic Research

Research, New Zealand Institute of Economic

This paper examines the association between bond market development and profit and cost efficiency of commercial banks, based on bank-…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Park, Donghyun|Tian, Shu|Wu, Qiongbing

Other

16 Mar 2020

This publication provides an overview of the People’s Republic of China Poverty Reduction and Regional Cooperation Fund (PRC Fund),…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Asian Development Bank

Better environmental, social and governance performance is associated with lower default risk, and therefore lower funding costs.

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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Nemoto, Naoko|Liu, Lian

Japan must find a new strategy to increase its solar module installation and raise its self-sufficiency ratio in the primary energy…

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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad|Yoshino, Naoyuki|Inagaki, Yugo|Morgan, Peter J.

Japan

04 Mar 2020