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Kazakhstan’s Doing Well, now about those Public Finances
As a highly globally integrated, resource-rich, upper-middle income country, Kazakhstan has been facing significant challenges in the current global environment. Kazakhstan’s major challenges include managing its public finances to...
A Slowdown in Potential Growth Looms over Asia
Economic growth in both developing and advanced economies has slowed since the global financial crisis. Developing Asia’s growth also moderated after the crisis, largely driven by the slowdown in...
Asian Trade Forges Ahead with the RCEP
There seems to be a pushback against trade agreements in the post-global financial crisis era. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was signed in early 2016, but US presidential candidates have...
Energy Consumption Shift Puts India in the Spotlight
Access to energy sources at low prices will continue to drive the world’s political agenda, as energy is a component as well as an object of national power. The...
Fallout of a Slowing China on Emerging Asian Economies
With its rapid economic growth and integration into the global economy over the last 3 decades, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as a major economic power...
To Catch a White-Collar Thief via the Internet
The increasing use of the internet in recent years has caught the fancy of consumers and producers, in commodities, services, and leisure activities. The wide prevalence of wireless internet...
Unconventional Monetary Policy and Unintended Consequences
On August 2015, the People’s Bank of China devalued the yuan with the aim of appreciating the currency against the US dollar. On October 2015, the European Central Bank...
Indonesia’s Unhealthiness is Biased Toward the Poor
New ADBI research (Aizawa and Helble, forthcoming) studies how overweight and obesity have become major threats to public health in Indonesia. The evidence shows that obesity, which was previously...
When Two Percent Inflation is Too Optimistic
The Bank of Japan had a difficult start into 2016. The latest data shows that inflation in the last quarter of 2015 was lower than expected. Furthermore, doubts are...
Can Giant Infrastructure Projects Economically Reintegrate South Asia?
Despite strong linkages in the past during the colonial period and strong ethnic and traditional ties, South Asian countries have become increasingly more diverse since their independence. While they...