Spotlight Archives
- ADB Policy Brief No. 12 - Economic Turbulence and the Indonesian EconomyApril 2014In this policy brief, B.P.S. Brodjonegoro and Y. Abimanyu explore the reasons behind Indonesian economy's resilience during the most recent crisis emanating from the Eurozone. Read more.
- ADB Policy Brief No. 6 - Deepening India's Shallow Export BasketMar 2014Though India has concluded a number of FTAs already, there is little evidence that these have boosted trade to a significant degree. Would an FTA with the PRC be any different? K. Chaturvedi suggests that the nature of the bilateral relationship opens the door for an FTA to spur much-needed domestic reform that can unlock India’s trade potential. Read more.
- RCI Publications List 1992-2013Mar 2014ADB's Regional Cooperation and Integration Community of Practice (RCI CoP) and the Asia Regional Integration Center (ARIC) release an updated bibliographic list of RCI publications. The list includes books, journals, working papers, reports, conference proceedings, and background papers. Download the RCI Publications List.
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 124 - Explaining Foreign Holdings of Asia's Debt SecuritiesFeb 2014C. Y. Horioka, T. Nomoto, and A. Terada-Hagiwara find that the overall increase in foreign holdings of Asian debt securities since 2000 appears to be driven by relatively stable exchange rates and the higher risk-adjusted returns on the debt securities of the region. Read more.
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 125 - South Caucasus–People's Republic of China Bilateral Free Trade Agreements: Why It MattersFeb 2014H. Hovhanesian and H. Manasyan assess the PRC's FTA strategy, the potential for regional integration in the South Caucasus, and the likely impacts of an FTA on the economies of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and the PRC. Read more.
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 123 - Can Low Interest Rates be Harmful: An Assessment of the Bank Risk-Taking Channel in AsiaFeb 2014A. Ramayandi, U. Rawat, and H. C. Tang find the presence of the risk-taking channel based on a panel of publicly listed bank data in Asia and concludes that “too low” interest rates lead to an increase in bank risk-taking. Read more.
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 122 - Terms of Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Development: A Case of Intra-Asian "Kicking Away the Ladder"?Feb 2014K. M. Wacker, P. Großkurth, and T. Lakemann show that FDI has generally beneficial effects on developing countries’ export prices, but has negative effects in the case of South Asia. Read more.
- Inclusive Development in the Greater Mekong Subregion: An AssessmentFeb 2014The study, “Inclusive Development in the GMS: An Assessment” —the most recent output of the Greater Mekong Subregion Development Analysis Network (GMS-DAN)— includes five GMS country chapters and a synthesis chapter, compiling data and information from the five country reports to produce an analysis of the GMS as a whole. Download report.
- ADB, KCMI, PIIE launch book on Asian capital market developmentJan 2014ADB's OREI Head Iwan Azis, together with KCMI President Hyoung-Tae Kim, on 21 January opened in Seoul the international conference featuring the joint publication, Asian Capital Market Development and Integration: Challenges and Opportunities. The book, also featuring PIIE's contributions, provides an in-depth analysis of the evolution of financial integration since the Asian crisis.
- Why hasn't Japan's massive government debt wreaked havoc (yet)?Jan 2014Japan's sovereign debt-to-GDP ratio is higher than any country in Europe and more than twice the OECD average. In a VoxEU blog, UPSE's Charles Yuji Horioka; and ADB's Takaaki Nomoto and Akiko Terada-Hagiwara explain why Japan’s massive government debt did not wreak havoc in the past. But government faces pressure to quickly reduce debt-to-GDP ratio. Read more. Download paper.
