The COVID-19 pandemic is imposing economic and broader development challenges as never before. Policy lessons from Asia … inequality and environmental challenges increased the region's vulnerabilities. The post-pandemic recovery in Asia and the …

This paper investigates sources and determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to developing Asia using … FDI inflows to developing Asia in recent years, with Japan being the single largest investor. Intra-developing Asian flows … economies from the rest of the Asia and Pacific region, compared to those from nonregional OECD economies, with an emphasis on …

Asia and the Pacific, and particularly for emerging Asian economies, which are heavily dependent on imported energy and … resources. Acknowledging this fact, individual governments in Asia have recently been taking effective actions in the form of … capital, some of which are very specific to developing Asia. Different sector policies - such as in trade and environment …

Europe and Asia followed very different paths to economic integration after 1945. By 2000, an economic union with free … integration agreements were absent from Asia, although countries in East and Southeast Asia were becoming linked in global value …-called WTO+ issues). The outcome will be greater economic integration in Europe and Asia of countries seeking to benefit from …

This paper examines the effect of institutions on macrofinancial resilience in Asia. Focusing on a panel of 12 Asian …

portfolio equity and debt investment flows are negatively related to total factor productivity (TFP) in developing Asia, thereby … direct investment, although we find that there is no direct allocation puzzle in developing Asia, financial development can …

Free trade agreements (FTAs) have proliferated in East Asia in recent years. As of December 2008, eight bilateral FTAs … pressing issue for Japanese firms because Japanese firms have expanded overseas, particularly into the rest of Asia, which has … contributed to the formation of production networks in East Asia. There have been numerous ex ante studies on the impacts of FTAs …

Although a latecomer, economically important Asia has emerged at the forefront of global free trade agreement (FTA …. Political economy considerations suggest that a likely scenario is for FTA consolidation in Asia to be followed by connections …