carbon-intensive energy sources. Using household surveys, we study how a carbon tax may affect households in the Asia Pacific …

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 …

Countries generally tax the forestry sector to achieve the twin objectives of revenue maximization and sustainability …-have limited the use of auctions so far, particularly in low-income countries. To establish transparency of the forestry sector …

studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. In this paper, we add Indonesia to a previously estimated small quarterly …

Indonesia's tax reform cum fiscal adjustment experience since 2001. The paper describes Indonesia's fiscal adjustment strategy … priorities are identified for Indonesia's ongoing efforts to strengthen tax administration …

The prolonged investment decline in post-Asian crisis emerging Asia, in contrast to the swift recovery of economic …. Empirical results based on macro and firm-level data from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand (ASEAN-3) support this hypothesis. …

examines the impact of that deleveraging on credit supply in recipient economies, with a particular focus on Asia …

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 …

determinants, which include trade and financial linkages, as well as policies. In line with Asia's growing role in the global …