MPDD Policy Briefs

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2023: An augmented long-term approach to public debt sustainability analysis

Vatcharin Sirimaneetham

2023: What characterises a good green or sustainable finance taxonomy?

Patrick John Martin and Anant Jha

2022: Ensuring Public Debt Sustainability in the Pacific Small Island Developing States

Vatcharin Sirimaneetham

2022: Public expenditures and inequality in Asia-Pacific: understanding the relationship

Chloe Cho and Daniel Jeongdae Lee

2022: Debt for Climate Swaps in the Pacific SIDS

Erik Grigoryan, Alberto Isgut and Patrick Martin

2021: Will I be rich if I come from an impoverished family? Improving intergenerational mobility in Asia and the Pacific

Zhenqian Huang and Sweta Saxena

2021: Debt-for-climate swaps as a tool to support the implementation of the Paris Agreement

Erik Grigoryan, Zenathan Adnin Hasannudin, Alberto Isgut, Patrick Martin and Deanna Morris

2021: Boosting Sustainable Investing in Asia and the Pacific by Public Institutional Investors

Vatcharin Sirimaneetham

2021: Adopting good practices on public debt management in Asia and the Pacific

Charan Singh and Vatcharin Sirimaneetham

2021: Rethinking MSME Finance in Asia and the Pacific - A Policy Agenda: Post COVID-19 Crisis

Masato Abe, Nick Freeman and Mike Troilo

2020: Financial support by MDBs and IFIs to Asia-Pacific region in the time of COVID-19: helpful, but is it sufficient?

Zhenqian Huang and Christopher Cho Shim

2020: An assessment of fiscal space for COVID-19 response and recovery in Asia-Pacific developing countries

Daniel Jeong-Dae Lee

2020: Supporting sustainable development in the COVID-19 era through fisheries in Asia-Pacific small island developing States

Zhenqian Huang and Sweta C. Saxena

2020: Can this time be different? Challenges and opportunities for Asia-Pacific economies in the aftermath of COVID-19

Zhenqian Huang and Sweta Saxena

2020: Coping with COVID-19 and enhancing long-term resilence to future shocks: an assessment of fuel-exporting countries in Asia and Pacific

Zhenqian Huang and Lulu Zhao

2020: Combating COVID-19 in Asia and the Pacific: Measures, lessons and the way forward

Zhenqian Huang and Sweta Saxena

2020: Addressing the impact of the pandemic on tourism in Asia-Pacific small island developing States

Yusuke Tateno and Andrzej Bolesta

2020: Move from GDP to comprehensive indicator frameworks in Asia and the Pacific

Zhenqian Huang

2020: Businesses move forward with carbon pricing

Daniel Jeong-Dae Lee

2020: Carbon pricing options - to tax or trade?

Daniel Jeong-Dae Lee

2020: Raising the level of ambition on carbon pricing in Asia and Pacific

Daniel Jeong-Dae Lee

2020: Nudges as a tool for promoting sustainable consumer behavior in Asia-Pacific

Shuvojit Banerjee

2020: Setting sustainability standards for the financial system in Asia-Pacific

Jyoti Bisbey

2020: Moving businesses towards decarbonization

Jyoti Bisbey

2020: Infrastructure financing for sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific: A new ESCAP publication on financing for Development

Tientip Subhanij, Masato Abe, Alberto Isgut and Nick Freeman

2019: Asia and the Pacific: Shaping future tax policies in a digital era

Zhenqian Huang and Lena Kaiser

2019: Maintaining financial stability in Asia and the Pacific

Zhenqian Huang

2019: Structural transformation, backward and forward linkages and job creation in Asia-Pacific least developed countries

Yusuke Tateno, Nyingtob Norbu and Andrzej Bolesta

2019: Structural transformation in Asia's landlocked developing countries

Andrzej Bolesta

2019: Industrial policy for structural transformation to reduce poverty in LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS

Andrzej Bolesta

2019: Structural transformation in Asia-Pacific small island developing States

Yusuke Tateno and Andrzej Bolesta

2019: Universal access to safe water and sanitation - how much would it cost

Kiatkanid Pongpanich

2019: Investing in biodiversity and ecosystems

Daniel Jeongdae Lee

2019: Fiscal space and national budgets for SDGs

Daniel Jeongdae Lee and Zhenqian Huang

2019: Mind the gaps - SDG progress and SDG investment needs

Zheng Jian

2019: Investing in sustainable infrastructure for all

Daniel Jeongdae Lee, Shuvojit Banerjee and Zheng Jian

2019: Investment in climate action

Zhenqian Huang

2019: Increasing access to Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

Achara Jantarasaengaram

2019: Costing the transport infrastructure component of SDGs in Asia and the Pacific

Shuvojit Banerjee

2019: Investment needs to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 7: affordable and clean energy

Zhenqian Huang

2019: Achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls

Daniel Jeongdae Lee and Sonam Choden Wangdi

2019: Providing quality education for every child and youth - how much would it cost?

Daniel Jeongdae Lee and Yiliang Li

2019: Investment needs for ambitiously moving towards universal health coverage

Kiatkanid Pongpanich

2019: Ending hunger and malnutrition - how much would it cost?

Daniel Jeongdae Lee and Kiatkanid Pongpanich

2019: Investing in social protection floors

Daniel Jeongdae Lee and Dyah Pritadrajati

2019: FinTech in the Pacific Island Countries: Challenges and Opportunities

Tientip Subhanij and Ralph Chow Wen Kang

2018: Mobilize finance for social protection in ageing societies

Zhenqian Huang and Vanessa Steinmayer

2018: Financing for peace in countries with special needs

Andrzej Bolesta, Nyingtob Norbu and Yusuke Tateno

2018: Natural resource management for conflict risk mitigation

Yusuke Tateno

2018: The nexus between peace and sustainable development in Asia-Pacific countries with special needs

Nyingtob Norbu

2018: Access of micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to finance in North and Central Asia

Hiroaki Ogawa

2018: Reforming tax systems in South and South-West Asia

Matthew Hammill

2018: Managing fiscal volatility in the Pacific

Sanjesh Naidu

2018: Developing local currency bond markets in South-East Asia

Shuvojit Banerjee

2018: Potential of financial technology in East and North-East Asia

Dorothea Lazaro and Nobuko Kajiura

2018: Enhancing the policy environment for public-private partnerships

Chandan Sharma and Vatcharin Sirimaneetham

2018: Leveraging private finance for sustainable development

Vatcharin Sirimaneetham

2018: Prudent sovereign borrowing from financial markets

Vatcharin Sirimaneetham and Yong Yoon

2018: Expanding the tax base

Athiphat Muthitacharoen and Vatcharin Sirimaneetham

2018: Improving tax administration

Athiphat Muthitacharoen and Vatcharin Sirimaneetham

2018: Leveraging technology in fiscal management

Zhenqian Huang

2018: Universal Basic Income

Zhenqian Huang

2018: Making effective use of fiscal space for sustainable development

Daniel Jeongdae Lee, Nixie Abarquez, Kiatkanid Pongpanich and Farzana Sharmin

2018: Securing financial stability through macroprudential measures

Daniel Jeongdae Lee, Jose Antonio Pedrosa-Garcia and Kiatkanid Pongpanich

2018: Technology progress: Carpe Potestatem - Seize the opportunities for the region

Zhenqian Huang

2018: What explains divergent investment performances in Asia-Pacific?

Daniel Jeongdae Lee and Noormah Rizwan