This study aims to build an efficient small-scale macroeconomic forecasting tool for Maldives. Due to significant limitations in data…

In the last 2 decades, global production has become increasingly fragmented and organized around global value chains (GVCs). Enhancing…

This article will examine the extent to which Malaysia’s largest ever budget can reasonably support the economic recovery expected in…

Infrastructure is often seen as a critical factor in economic development. However, impact assessment for infrastructure projects is a…

Using the 2015 and 2017 waves of the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we measured financial literacy and study its relationship to…

Tourism has played only a marginal part in the blue economy of the region of Asia and the Pacific. Most Asian and the Pacific islands…

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

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

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

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