The paper shows that between the late 1980s and 1997, the year when Korea was engulfed in a financial crisis, its corporate-sector profitability was on a decreasing trend, albeit short-term ups and downs. The evidence presented in the paper suggests that Korea’s corporate and financial sectors...

This paper proposes an indicator to assess the progress being made in the modernization journey of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In doing so, it fills a gap. The paper applies the modernization indicator—structured on thematic categories, subcategories, and intersections—to the...

This paper empirically investigates the finance-growth linkage in Korea by utilizing firm-level data of manufacturing industries before and after the 1997 financial crisis. We find that, first, an increase in external finance is associated with a faster subsequent capital accumulation of...

The Northeast Asian region includes the major players China, Japan, and Korea, with productive linkages to resource-rich Russia and to the United States and is one of the most dynamic economic regions in the world. In contrast to the region's robust economic growth, regional security has long...

Trade financing inadvertently falls short to the needs of even the viable transactions from smaller firms, unmet demand expected to reach around $2.4 trillion by 2025 if effective solutions are not in place. In 2018, 57 percent of trade finance applications from firms in Central Asia Regional...