as well as droughts and heat waves. The Asia and the Pacific region has experienced some of the most damaging disasters … Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater … temperature linked to droughts and heat waves) and the frequency of intense natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific and its …

sustained investment into disaster risk reduction (DRR). Recently, international policy debate has started to emphasize the need … for focusing DRR investment toward actions that generate multiple dividends, including reducing loss of lives and … support tools are fit-for-purpose. Focusing on the Asia region, we identify evidence of multiple dividends crafted using …

Disaster risk and subsequent loss and damage in Asia are increasing at an alarming rate, threatening socioeconomic … deficiencies and potential for substantial improvements in community flood resilience investment across the region, with different …

As the economic costs of disasters increase in Asia, recent years have seen wide adoption of policy instruments to …

decades. Using the typhoon landfalls and damage in Asia, we analyze the wind-damage relationship and find damages to gross …

financially turbulent periods in the 2000s in making investment decisions and in meeting demand for liquidity. A rise in … uncertainty regarding the ability to obtain external funds may have induced firms to rely on internal funds to finance investment … activities. Therefore, we shed light on the cash flow sensitivity of investment and cash holdings by estimating firm- level …

The pace of capital accumulation in East Asia has simply been stunning. In this paper, we investigate sources of this …; Singapore; Taipei, China; Thailand; and Viet Nam, including India and Pakistan from South Asia. We estimate aconvergenceʺ … investment rate for those economies. …

The demographic dividend that contributed substantially to economic growth in developing Asia in the past is …

This paper investigates the financial determinants of research and development (R&D) investment in Asia, where …&D investment to changes in cash flow, indicating reliance on internal financing of R&D and financially constrained firms, and a … cash flow sensitivity of R&D investment, suggesting more stable funding of innovation. Overall, there does not seem to be …