For the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, China pledged to reduce the carbon dioxide (CO2) intensity of GDP by 60 … level fiscal and regulatory policy options for reducing CO2 emissions in China in terms of their impacts on emissions …

We use a Global VAR model to study spillovers from the Bank of Japan's quantitative and qualitative easing (QQE) on … emerging Asia.1 Our main result is that, despite an appreciation of their currencies vis-a-vis the yen, the impact on emerging … Asia's GDP tended to be positive and significant. Our results suggest that the positive effect of QQE on expectations, by …

economies—Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines—for the period 1997–2050 using a simulation approach …

Both Japan and Korea are trying to boost female labor force participation (FLFP) as they face the challenges of a … tend to reduce the proportion of regular female employment in Japan and Korea, (ii) the persistent gender wage gap … fertility, and (iv) there is a need for more public spending on childcare for age 6-11 in Japan and Korea to help women continue …

This paper draws out the parallels between Korea and Japan in terms of demographics, potential growth, balance sheets …, asset prices and inflation. Korea's demographic trends seem to track Japan's with a lag of about 20 years. Low productivity … reforms. While Korea's corporate balance sheets are stronger than Japan's in the early 1990s, Korea needs to progress with the …

decline in the value of the Japanese Yen. What would be the implications for Japan and Korea’s exporters if the weak Yen is …Three years have passed since the Bank of Japan’s asset purchase program was introduced in 2011, causing a sharp … shocks. We find that if the weak Yen persists, it would strengthen Japan’s price competitiveness over time as export prices …