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This study sets out to estimate the negative effects of COVID-19 on the informal economy and its associated socio-economic toll on the…

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The Asia Foundation

Bari, Faisal|Farooqui, Ahsan Zia|Kamran, Sahar

In this issue of Update from Washington DC.: Problems and Urgent Issues in U.S. - Southeast Asia Relations for 2021; Afghanistan Flash…

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The Asia Foundation

Foundation, The Asia

The COVID-19, or coronavirus global pandemic, has required huge responses from governments all over the world. Timor-Leste has its own…

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The Asia Foundation

Aid, Australian|Orima

This working paper applies a modernization indicator to assesses the progress of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and compared it…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Lee, Minsoo|Kim, Joon-Kyung|Park, Myung Ho|Peng, Longyun|Okazaki, Tetsuji|Ishii, Susumu

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is at an advanced stage of conducting pilot studies with its digital currency. What will a digital…

This paper explores how global value chains (GVCs) can aid India’s development outcomes across primary, manufacturing, and services…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Mitra, Sabyasachi|Sen Gupta, Abhijit|Sanganeria, Atul

India

29 Dec 2020

This study outlines a computational framework to enhance the spatial granularity of government-published poverty estimates, citing data…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Hofer, Martin|Sako, Tomas|Martinez, Arturo Jr.|Addawe, Mildred|Bulan, Joseph Albert Niño|Durante, Ron Lester|Martillan, Marymell

This working paper explains how to derive indicators for a country's wellness sector using the system of national accounts…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Consing, Rafael Martin M. III|Barsabal, Michael John M.|Alvarez, Julian Thomas B.|Mariasingham, Mahinthan J.

This study aims to build an efficient small-scale macroeconomic forecasting tool for Maldives using Bayesian vector autoregression…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Baluga, Anthony|Nakane, Masato

Maldives

29 Dec 2020

This study examines an alternative approach in estimating poverty by investigating whether readily available geospatial data can…

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Puttanapong, Nattapong|Martinez, Arturo Jr.|Addawe, Mildred|Bulan, Joseph Albert Niño|Durante, Ron Lester|Martillan, Marymell

Thailand

29 Dec 2020