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 …

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 …

Asian economies and between Asia and the rest of the world. It pays special attention to the value-added relationships among … than the direct linkages. Finally, there is an increased tendency in Asia for both “near selling” of the value added in …

medical goods—vaccines and their value chains, personal protective equipment, and diagnostic test kits—across 29 Asia and the …

population data. The dataset contains over 1,500 cities covering 43 economies of Asia and the Pacific from 1992 to 2016. With the … dataset, we perform a variety of analyses for Asia and the Pacific as a whole as well as five individual countries in the …

Developing Asia has the world's fastest greenhouse gas emissions growth. This study uses an economy …-energy-climate model to assess the effects of Paris Agreement pledges on Asia, in comparison with business as usual (BAU) and more … of less than 2 degrees Celsius (2°C) warming. The policy costs of Asia's pledges are found to be less than 1% of gross …

decades. Using the typhoon landfalls and damage in Asia, we analyze the wind–damage relationship and find damages to gross …

temperature significantly affects overall economic productivity. We find the overall economic productivity of developing Asia to …