The paper shows that Asia's degree of financial integration, both with the world and within the region remains low by …

used as a leading indicator. Based on the FCI, financial conditions in Asia tightened substantially earlier in the global … crisis, reflecting losses in the stock markets and tighter credit conditions. In early 2010, financial conditions in Asia …

finds that Asia's remarkable output growth over the past 40 years reflected both high investment, and rapid productivity …

in Asia during the 1990s is found to be mainly from capital deepening. Total factor productivity (TFP) is also decomposed …

The small states of the Asia and Pacific region face unique challenges in raising their growth potential and living …, as evidenced in the recent business cycle. The Asia and Pacific small states should continue rebuilding buffers and …

Despite the rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Asia worsened during last two decades. We focus … our analysis is that there is still room to strengthen such policies in Asia to better achieve growth with shared … on inclusive growth could be sizeable in emerging Asia, since the estimated improvement in our proxy of inclusive growth …

This paper assesses how pro-poor and inclusive Asia’s recent growth has been, and what factors have been driving these …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia … policies that could help redress these trends and broaden the benefits of growth in Asia. These include fiscal policies to …

Asia proved to be remarkably resilient in the face of the global financial crisis, but why was its output performance … the global financial crisis. Looking ahead, Asia is in the process of adjusting to more volatile external conditions and …