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 …

of financial integration or interrelatedness, asking how Asia compares with Europe and Latin America and with the base … more financially integrated than other regions. Asia, more interestingly, already seems to have made more progress on this … sample suggest that one factor holding back investment in foreign bonds in East Asia may be limited geographical …

these factors may have contributed to the depth and duration of the 1997 crisis. There are two key findings: First, bank …

low-income countries, by exploring bank-level data provided by Bankscope. The paper examines three key channels of …

shocks. This paper combines different stress scenarios, as well as cross-country analysis, to assess New Zealand bank … reduce bank capital below the regulatory minimum. On the funding side, a disruption to banks'' offshore funding may put …