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 …

in the Asian region. Our second recommendation is for the East Asia Summit (ASEAN+10) to set up a high level working …

Financial safety nets in Asia have come a long way since the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) of 1997 - 98. Not wanting to …

productive human capital outflows ought to be considered seriously in Asia. …

levels - and evolutionary processes of economic integration in light of regional policy targets in Asia. The analysis …