Spotlight Archives
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 105 - Critical Review of East Asia – South America TradeJanuary 2013S. Hamanaka and A. Tafgar examine whether trade between East Asia and South America is a general phenomenon, a country-specific, or a commodity-specific issue, and whether increased trade is due to diversification, price effects, and/or quantity effects. Read more.
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 106 - The Threat of Financial Contagion to Emerging Asia's Local Bond Markets: Spillovers from Global CrisesJanuary 2013I. J. Azis, et al look at shock and volatility spillovers from mature bond markets into select Asian local currency bond markets and discuss implications for the monitoring and policy coordination. Read more.
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 107 - Hot Money Flows, Commodity Price Cycles, and Financial Repression in the US and the People's Republic of China: The Consequences of Near Zero US Interest RatesJanuary 2013R. McKinnon and Z. Liu explain why near zero US interest rates are bad for the US and the rest of the world. Read more.
- ADB Policy Brief No. 4: Is there a case for exchange rate policy coordination in Asia?December 2012OREI Policy Brief examines the impact of intraregional exchange rate volatility on intraregional trade, particularly its effect on the region's production networks. It discusses the need for greater exchange rate cooperation and coordination among regional economies, meriting closer policy consideration. Read more.
- SASEC launches its website 19 DecemberDecember 2012SASEC is a project-based initiative promoting economic cooperation by enhancing cross-border connectivity, trade facilitation, and energy security among member countries—Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal. Priority areas for cooperation are transport, trade facilitation, and energy. Visit the website http://www.sasec.asia.
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 103 - Japan's Education Services Imports: Branch Campus or Subsidiary Campus?December 2012S. Hamanaka reviews the development of regulatory status of services trade in tertiary education services, especially education through oversea campuses, and considers the policy implications on issues regarding the regulation of services industry. Read more.
- Pacific Economic Monitor - December 2012December 2012The smallest Pacific island economies can overcome economic growth challenges related to isolation and low populations by expanding economic links and using technology to build connections, according to the December issue of the Asian Development Bank's Pacific Economic Monitor. Read report and news release.
- Asia Bond Monitor November 201222 November 2012The latest Asia Bond Monitor reports that Emerging East Asia’s local currency bond markets continue to expand and are performing well, but warns that risks loom large on the horizon. Read the press release. Download the report.
- Iwan Azis: Asia will continue to integrate despite eurozone crisis16 November 2012Iwan J. Azis, Head of ADB's Office of Regional Economic Integration, discusses the progress of regional integraton in Asia and the effect of the eurozone crisis. Read more in the Asia Pathways, the blog of the ADB Institute, here.
- OREI talks about realizing the Asian Century12 November 2012Jayant Menon, OREI's Lead Economist, talked about realizing the Asian Century during the event "Structural Change and the Rise of Asia" jointly hosted by the International Monetary Fund, Australia's Treasury, and the Reserve Bank of Australia on 19 September 2012 in Canberra. View video and read transcript here.
