This publication introduces the Global Integration Index as a tool to explore how global and regional integration affect development…

State decentralization is often promoted to improve public service delivery, but its effects on forest conservation are ambiguous.

Developing Asia’s outlook remains upbeat despite global challenges. The 2023 growth forecast is revised up from September’s projection,…

Continued growth is expected in the Pacific, but governments need to generate additional resources for public infrastructure and…

This report analyzes tourism in Asia and the Pacific as a services export industry, assesses how it was hard hit by the pandemic, and…

The pandemic’s devastating impact on tourism-dependent Maldives highlighted the need to diversify its economy to reduce macroeconomic…

Using matched data from three sources in Lahore, Pakistan, the paper finds that employers’ gender restrictions are a larger constraint…

This work shows that some demographic groups end up underrepresented in household inflation expectations surveys due to item nonresponse…

This paper reviews the overall micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise landscape in Asia, including the challenges and constraints…

This edition analyzes how financial conditions weakened and bond yields rose in most emerging East Asian markets between 1 September and…