industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan …"Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe … Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the advanced regions of Europe and Asia were more alike than …

This paper provides an analysis of financial development and inclusion in developing Asia using data from a wide array … economies. Furthermore, in terms of financial inclusion, fewer than 27% of adults in developing Asia have an account in a formal …