as well as droughts and heat waves. The Asia and the Pacific region has experienced some of the most damaging disasters … Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors — rising population exposure, greater … temperature linked to droughts and heat waves) and the frequency of intense natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific and its …

Asia has run since the 1997–1998 Asian crisis. A country's current account surplus is, by definition, equal to its net … saving. The central objective of this paper is to investigate the extent to which the saving and investment rate of Asian … countries can be explained by the underlying fundamental determinants of saving and investment such as gross domestic product …

The demographic dividend that contributed substantially to economic growth in developing Asia in the past is …

opportunities and investment demand. Financial development primarily affects firms' external financing constraints. (2) Large firms …

financially turbulent periods in the 2000s in making investment decisions and in meeting demand for liquidity. A rise in … uncertainty regarding the ability to obtain external funds may have induced firms to rely on internal funds to finance investment … activities. Therefore, we shed light on the cash flow sensitivity of investment and cash holdings by estimating firmlevel …

The pace of capital accumulation in East Asia has simply been stunning. In this paper, we investigate sources of this …; Singapore; Taipei, China; Thailand; and Viet Nam, including India and Pakistan from South Asia. We estimate a “convergence … investment rate for those economies …

sustained investment into disaster risk reduction (DRR). Recently, international policy debate has started to emphasize the need … for focusing DRR investment toward actions that generate multiple dividends, including reducing loss of lives and … support tools are fit-for-purpose. Focusing on the Asia region, we identify evidence of multiple dividends crafted using …

This paper explores disparities in Millennium Development Goals among countries in the Asia and Pacific region, with a …

This paper revisits the issue of the evolution and choice of exchange rate regimes in Asia. The paper first compiles … exchange rate regimes for Asia in the future …