This study investigates the feasibility of using remote sensing data for post-disaster damage assessment.
This study assesses the medium-term recovery of women at the village level after the 2016 Aceh earthquake and explains how satellite and administrative data can be used to better identify how to target assistance after a disaster.
This paper investigates the impact of real exchange rate (RER) misalignment on business cycles among 22 economies in Asia and the Pacific from 1990 to 2018.
This paper provides evidence for the importance of capital account openness in buffering depreciation pressures during the taper tantrum in May 2013.
Evidence for the impact of international capital flows on the financial sector’s stability is mixed. This paper looks at the relationship between capital flows and financial stability in emerging economies.
Adopting a structural dynamic regression and censoring positive and negative shocks, findings suggest limited evidence of any asymmetric response of economic activity to positive and negative commodity price shocks.
The gradual moderation in growth currently underway in the People’s Republic of China presents both challenges and opportunities for developing Asia, while concerns over a sharp slowdown in the near term are exaggerated.
In this paper, state of the art techniques for nowcasting Indonesia's GDP growth have been applied.
An index of financial development for 23 Asian economies finds evidence that economies with weaker financial systems are catching up to the Asian benchmark economies.
The recent decline in GDP growth in India raised a debate about whether it is a trend or a business cycle slowdown. The paper finds that the recent growth decline in India has elements of a business cycle and a trend slowdown.