While discussing the enhancement of the connectivity between Europe and Asia, this policy paper explores a new area of … cooperation, which is the use of European long-term investment funds in Asia's infrastructure. We argue that, if Asian countries … of long-term investment funds, such as pension and insurance funds. This will create a win-win situation for both Asia …

East Asia has remained the biggest market for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2018. The Russian Federation has a clear … vision to develop its East Asia LNG projects to provide a bigger share of Asian LNG imports. We model Russian Federation …–East Asia LNG trade patterns via the gravity trade theory, which is shown to fit well with energy trade patterns. Our findings …

In Asia, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for a major share of employment and dominate the economy … paper, we explain the importance of SMEs in Asia and describe about HITs. We then provide a scheme for the credit rating of … various financial variables to 1,363 SMEs in Asia. Adoption of this comprehensive and efficient method would enable banks to …

Asia's economic success to have fully functioning support measures for SMEs. However, SMEs face challenges from limited … growth in Asia including i) lack of finance, ii) lack of comprehensive databases, iii) low level of R&D expenditures, and iv …

-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Asia. Owing to their significance to national economies, it is important to find ways to provide SMEs with …

bank-dominated financial systems in Asia, banks are the main source of financing for SMEs. For financial institutions, it …