Spotlight Archives
- New ILO-ADB Report—ASEAN Community 2015: Managing Integration for Better Jobs and Shared Prosperity2014The Report highlights the challenges and opportunities that will accompany the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), including managing labor migration, boosting productivity and wages, and improving job quality. It offers policy recommendations for creating better jobs and ensuring that the benefits of the AEC are equitably shared among countries and sectors. Full report | Handouts
- The ASEAN Economic Community: A Work in Progress2013ASEAN aims to achieve an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by end-2105. The book examines the key challenges facing the realization of the AEC. A key message is that the target date should not be viewed as a hard deadline but rather a milestone, in a much longer journey. Download book.
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 104 - A New Regime of SME Finance in Emerging Asia: Empowering Growth-Oriented SMEs to Build Resilient National EconomiesDecember 2012S. Shinozaki reviews possible financing modalities to improve small- and medium-scale enterprise (SME) access to finance, considering Asia's bank-centered financial system. Read more.
- Pacific Economic Monitor - December 2013December 2013This issue analyzes 2013 budget outcomes and 2014 budget plans of ADB's Pacific developing member countries. The theme of the policy briefs included in this issue is the economics of climate change and climate change financing challenges in the Pacific. Read more.
- Asia Bond Monitor November 201325 November 2013Emerging East Asia economies should use the window of opportunity opened by the delay in US policy normalization to strengthen their economies and financial systems, the latest quarterly Asia Bond Monitor from the Asian Development Bank urges. Read news release. Download report.
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 120 - FDI Technology Spillovers and Spatial Diffusion in the People's Republic of China12 November 2013Mi Lin and Yum K. Kwan investigate to what extent the impact from foreign direct investments (FDI) to host country domestic firms would condition on geographic distance. Read more.
- FTA database update: Asian FTAs now total 261; 113 in effect 8 October 2013Free trade agreements (FTAs) continue to grow rapidly in Asia and the Pacific. From just 55 in 2000, there are 261 FTAs in different stages of development as of July 2013. Of these FTAs, 113 are being implemented while the rest are either proposed, under negotiation, or signed. Check the FTA database.
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 119 - Learning by Exporting: Evidence from India4 October 2013Apoorva Gupta, Ila Patnaik, and Ajay Shah used data for Indian firms to find evidence for self-selection of more productive firms into exporting but not for post-entry increase in productivity. Read more.
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 117 - What is Economic Corridor Development and What Can It Achieve in Asia's Subregions?Jul 2013Hans-Peter Brunner characterizes economic corridor development by presenting good practices with an overview of cases and experiences. This helps to advise policy makers on policies and interventions, which augment regional development impact. Read more.
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 115 - The Role of International Trade in Employment Growth in Micro- and Small Enterprises: Evidence from Developing AsiaAugust 2013Jens Krueger examines the role of international trade in employment growth, focusing on micro- and small enterprises in six Southeast Asian countries. He finds that participation in international trade boosts firm-level growth by 3% per year on average. Read more.
