Analyzing how the role of ASEAN economies in global value chains has helped spur their recovery and cut poverty, this publication shows the need to…

This edition notes slowing growth in the last quarter of 2022 in emerging East Asia’s local currency (LCY) bond market, though aggregate issuance of…

The price of water supply can be kept very low by sharing spillover tax revenues collected by the government with private investors and water…

Food security policies can enable the use and consumption of wild foods as a complementary source of food and nutrition.

This brief explores how data from the Automatic Identification System (AIS) for maritime traffic could help monitor and analyze trade flows, port…

This paper examines the impact of technological change on the wage share of older workers, using data from 30 countries experiencing population aging…

This study explores to what extent reducing delays and costs at border crossing points can facilitate bilateral trade flows among Central Asia Regional…

This paper analyzes how trade costs affect exports from five Central Asian countries. It highlights how improving logistics and procedures and boosting…

This publication reviews the financial performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in nine Pacific island economies and looks at how policy makers…

Continuous monitoring of shrimp ponds helps achieve sustainable aquaculture.

Rising market power impairs the effective transmission of monetary policy.

Asset purchase programs have a statistically significant effect in compressing the bond spreads in most emerging market economies.