The rapid growth of ASEAN economies, the People's Republic of China and India (called ACI henceforth) — major drivers of Asia and the world economy — during the last five decades has caused significant strains on their scarce resources, particularly energy and contributed to serious problems...

Even before the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis and ongoing European debt crisis, much attention has been given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained unprecedented growth and economic development — PRC...

The seven-nation Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multisectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), comprising Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand is emerging as one of the major subregional groups in Asia. Japan is the second largest trading partner for...

Asia, particularly its major economies has witnessed slower growth in recent years. To make Asia more economically sustainable and resilient against external shocks to recover from the falling growth, most regional economies need to rebalance their export-oriented (mostly to advanced economies)...

Mit der Öffnung des indischen Bankensektors auch für Auslandsbanken nimmt der Wettbewerb um Kunden zu und insbesondere bei Großkunden müssen indische Banken nicht nur reagieren, sondern agieren, um im Wettbewerb bestehen zu können. Vor diesem Hintergrund ist es wichtig, die Gewohnheiten,...

Die Beseitigung der Armut gehört zu den großen übergeordneten Zielen der indischen Entwicklungspolitik. Dabei spielt die Funktionsfähigkeit ländlicher Kreditsysteme eine große Rolle. Eine kritische Evaluierung des gegenwärtigen Systems (im Rahmen des Integrated Rural Development Programme...

This paper proposes a macro-prudential financial soundness analysis that can be used by most developing and transformation countries with or without crisis experience as well as by developed countries with limited data. The objective is to detect economic and financial sector vulnerability,...