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 …

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 …

examines the impact of that deleveraging on credit supply in recipient economies, with a particular focus on Asia …, the credit supply response in Asia was only about half the size of the response in non-Asian countries, possibly due to a …

developing Asia, have strengthened economic links between the Far East and Saudi Arabia. Second, financial sector development in … Asia and the United States has the potential to increasingly generate tension between policy objectives in Saudi Arabia. …

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 …