Major advanced economies have taken policy measures to strengthen the resilience of the financial system since the 2008 global financial crisis. On…

Relying solely on a domestic response will not end the cycle of global cyber threats. A concerted effort to build capacity, confidence, and rules of…

Latin American crises have left deeper economic wounds than those of Asia due to synchronizing banking, currency, and economic shocks.

Demographic transition does not have a direct effect on government balance, but instead has an indirect effect through higher government expenditure.…

This report presents the results of a process evaluation on the delivery of mandated services in communities by local government units (LGUs) under the…

2021 WAS supposed to be the year of celebration in the Pacific as the 18-member Pacific Island Forum (PIF) was founded 50 years ago in 1971, four years…

The policy that is most supportive of a global economic recovery is the successfully implemented public health policy.

We use two waves of data from the India Human Development Survey to investigate the effect of family size on (i) parental expenditures on children’s…

Using the staggered roll-out of the Indonesian Conversion to Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Programme, we show that a subsidy for the labour- and time-…

In this new report, we outline the evidence from the economic literature on the impacts of seasonal, temporary migrant workers, and examine the short-…

This policy brief provides evidence of the persistent digital gender divide across ASEAN and explains how it is of key importance to close this divide…

Development experience from around the world evidences a strong correlation between financial sector development and economic growth, with the…