Current climate policy commitments and practices have fallen significantly short of the necessary measures to achieve important…

Focusing on Pacific economies, this 2023 edition shows how micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) helped spur a robust…

This report assesses the hurdles Philippine micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) face to access the financial services…

The paper investigates the effect of prudential policies on sovereign bond vulnerability to global spillover risk in ASEAN-4 countries (…

This study aims to estimate and evaluate the intensity and directionality of bond market connectedness between Association of Southeast…

This issue looks at various challenges related to COVID-19 and explores diverse topics that include health reform, the benefits of bank-…

This brief shows how Bangladesh can improve development planning and boost resilience by comprehensively analyzing climate and disaster…

This edition shows how a modest improvement in economic fundamentals has buoyed East Asia’s local currency bond (LCY) markets, but…

In Papua New Guinea, the lack of official identification (ID) documents is a major obstacle to opening a bank account. Overcoming this…