recommendations for developing Asia and the Pacific derived from model estimations. The main focus is to disentangle the effectiveness … logistic performance. There are several policy recommendations and implications for developing Asia and the Pacific concerning …, especially in low-income countries in Asia (such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Nepal, and Timor …

This paper examines the countercyclicality of remittance inflows to the countries in Asia and the Pacific. It also aims …. The degree to which remittances are countercyclical is found to vary significantly by subregion: Central Asia and … Southeast Asia, including many remittance-dependent countries, show stronger countercyclicality than other subregions. The …

This paper investigates sources and determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to developing Asia using … FDI inflows to developing Asia in recent years, with Japan being the single largest investor. Intra-developing Asian flows … economies from the rest of the Asia and Pacific region, compared to those from nonregional OECD economies, with an emphasis on …

Rapid population ageing and economic transformation in Asia raise the policy challenge of ensuring income security in … schemes in Asia, informed by insights from theory and international experience. The paper identifies alternative forms of …

capital markets. The main policy implication is that governments in Asia should continue and/or strengthen pension reforms …

Trade integration and free trade agreement (FTA)-led cooperation between Asia and Latin America has increased since the … early 2000s. Using new criteria, this paper examines whether Asia-Latin America FTAs have facilitated market-led integration … by liberalizing trade and behind the border regulatory barriers. Overall Asia-Latin America FTAs provide the foundations …

Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of … gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity … composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began with Japan in the 1950s and the Republic of Korea and Taipei,China from …