appropriate MSME policies in Asia and the Pacific. To identify factors affecting MSME development and promote evidence … Asia Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Monitor project. The estimation results suggest that sound MSME credit markets … play a critical role in ensuring a smooth business recovery from various crises and shocks affecting developing Asia and …

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 …

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

This study measures congestion in major container ports and investigates how port characteristics and regional factors … influence congestion during the COVID-19 periods. We develop port congestion indicators, including vessel arrivals, vessels … transshipment hubs. Short-term events such as labor strikes also substantially impacted port congestion. Next, using econometric …

Remittances to Asia plunged during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, but the drop was temporary as the flows were … will also last for a short time or developing Asia should prepare for a long period of remittance stagnation. This study …

in arresting continuing environmental degradation in the Asia and Pacific region. Quoting examples, the paper asserts …

). This paper examines the competitive position of suppliers from developing Asia in the expanded EU clothing market relative …

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are emerging as developing Asia's main policy tool for handling the region's excess …-risk, high-return investments, and are subject to a wide range of downside risks. The underlying nature of Asia's reserves, which … implication is that the transformation of Asia into a major exporter of capital raises the possibility that capital outflows can …

frequent, longer lasting, and more severe in Asia than in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries … financial crises or recessions in Asia. In view of the current global crisis and severe financial downturns, Asian economies are …

. An overwhelming response across Asia as international oil prices spiked in 2008 was to shield domestic consumers more …. Additionally, in combination with lower growth rates, higher spending to rev up demand across Asia is also worsening the fiscal …