A review of the various primary measures of inflation with a particular reference to the divergence between WPI and CPI …. Focus is also given on different secondary (derived) measures of inflation, particularly core inflation, and end the …

Capitalizing on recent estimates of infrastructure financing requirements in Asia, this paper frames a scenario for … quantitatively the economy-wide welfare effects of developing regional infrastructure in Asia, using a global computable general … energy infrastructure during 2010–2020, developing Asia is likely to reap welfare gains of US$1,616.3 billion (in 2008 …

East Asia region in the aftermath of the current global financial crisis. The risks in the banking systems in East Asia are …

estimating employment and income generated in the informal economy in India. [NCEUS WP NO 3]. …

. [Valedictory Address at IIF's inaugural Asia Regional Economic Forum]. …

attempts to provide some thoughts along these lines by looking at Myanmar’s official data on structure of GDP, inflation rate …, exchange rate etc. [ISDP Asia paper}. URL:[http://www.isdp.eu/images/stories/isdp-main-pdf/2009_myint_myanmar-economy.pdf]. …

In India, there is a large divergence between CPI and WPI inflation trends in the past, wide dispersion in inflation … across commodity groups within WPI, and significant volatility in headline WPI inflation under the influence of supply shocks … policy could yield ambiguous results if inflation data used in such analyses have serious limitations. [Staff Studies]. …