indicator of export diversification based on value added in sectors contributing to exports. For most Asia and the Pacific …

impact of RER misalignment on business cycles in Asia and the Pacific by employing a panel vector autoregression involving … overvaluation may lead to a reduction in CPI inflation and short-term interest rate. We also find that Asia and the Pacific is … highly heterogeneous wherein the output gaps of some economies, particularly those in Southeast Asia, are more susceptible to …

spending efficiency in developing Asia. Using data envelopment analysis, we find that East Asia has the highest average output …-level efficiency analysis, we find that developing Asia falls short of optimal total health expenditures. Caucasus and Central Asia has … the highest average allocative efficiency score among the subregions. Overall, developing Asia has substantial room for …

In this paper, we review the overall micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise landscape in Asia, including the …

Asia is home to 60% of the world's population, 52% of global agricultural production, and 43% of agriculture …

to monitor monthly business cycle fluctuations in Asia. The index summarizes a selection of updated monthly economic …

of regional integration on labor productivity and firms' probability to innovate using data from a panel of 170 economies … cooperation and integration, can positively contribute to labor productivity and innovation, in addition to known factors of …

developing Asia's exports and growth. As a result, developing Asian countries are increasingly looking to the People's Republic … trade with the PRC can become an engine of growth for developing Asia. To do so, we examine the structure of PRC's trade … with developing Asia, in particular the relative shares of parts and components versus final goods in its imports from the …

The global economic crisis in 2008-2009 had varying impacts on economies in Asia and the Pacific. This paper studies … the impacts of the global crisis, with emphasis on the labor market, on three Asian countries: Republic of Korea (Korea … product, Korea suffered the worst in reduced employment, and Philippines' output was affected only in 2009. In the labor …

Developing Asia has traditionally relied on exports to the United States (US) and other industrialized countries for …