The use of e-commerce around the world has accelerated in recent years, with Asia, led by China, spearheading the rise … generate a larger share of their revenues from exports than other firms. This is particularly true in Asia, where firms have 30 …

Despite the rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Asia worsened during last two decades. We focus … our analysis is that there is still room to strengthen such policies in Asia to better achieve growth with shared … on inclusive growth could be sizeable in emerging Asia, since the estimated improvement in our proxy of inclusive growth …

This paper assesses how pro-poor and inclusive Asia's recent growth has been, and what factors have been driving these …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia … policies that could help redress these trends and broaden the benefits of growth in Asia. These include fiscal policies to …

This paper focusses on income inequality in Asia, its drivers and policies to combat it. It finds that income … inequality has risen in most of Asia, in contrast to many regions. While in the past, rapid growth in Asia has come with …

The paper compares trends in financial integration within Asia with those in industrialized countries and other …

. But, after the crisis, Asia's sovereign spreads normalized, despite the debt crisis in the euro area, reflecting a fall in …

paper is to assess whether this is true for emerging Asia's economies. Using a dynamic factor model and a structural vector … auto-regression model, we show that long-term interest rates in Asia are indeed predominantly driven by global factors …-term interest rates. Nevertheless, the monetary transmission mechanism, though effective, is somewhat weaker in Asia during the …