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Country Case Studies on Resolving Problem Loans in Asia: Crises, Policies, Institutions, and Market Development

11 February 2020
This paper featured case studies of NPL reduction frameworks and policies implemented by ASEAN+3 countries during and after the Asian financial crisis. An analysis of country experiences of legal, regulatory, and supervisory framework institutional capacity and corporate debt restructuring reforms…

Strategies for Developing Asia’s NPL Markets and Resolution Mechanisms

10 February 2020
The paper proposed frameworks and strategies for developing NPL markets at national and regional levels in the Asia Pacific region, with a view to strengthening financial resilience and promoting financial development. The significance of a large and sustained buildup of NPLs was underlined as an…

Overstating Moral Hazard: Lessons from Two Decades of Banking Crises

10 February 2020
This paper surveyed approaches to the resolution of nonperforming loans in the context of major banking crises over the past two decades. It also explored particular country experiences and responses in-depth, including the effect of the Asian financial crisis on the banking sectors of the Republic…

PHOTO GALLERY - ADB-ECB Workshop on NPL Resolution in Asia and Europe

10 February 2020
A selection of photos taken from the ADB-ECB workshop on NPL resolution in Asia and Europe, held from 10-11 February 2020 at the Asian Development Bank headquarters in Manila, The Philippines.

Nonperforming Loans in Asia: Issues and Challenges

10 February 2020
The presentation highlighted the key issues and challenges in tackling non-performing loans (NPLs) in Asia. One of the key issues is that there are feedback effects between NPLs and macroeconomic indicators which are transmitted through various channels of financial spillovers across borders. Hence…

Asian Development Outlook 2019 Update

25 September 2019
This presentation is based on the Asian Development Outlook Update 2019 on "Fostering Growth and Inclusion in Asia's Cities". The presentation discussed the revisions to growth forecasts for developing Asia, and underscored that realizing the promise of cities as engines of job creation requires…

Digital Technologies and Trade

4 September 2019
How will emerging digital technologies impact the costs, content, volume, value, and pattern of Asia’s intra- and interregional trade flows over the next five years?

Modeling Spatiotemporal Urban Spillover Effect of High Speed Rail Infrastructure Development

15 November 2018
The concept of spillover effects has been introduced and applied to high-speed rail development to formulate the economic impact in increasing regional tax revenue. This presentation looks into the idea of spatiotemporal modeling and analysis by developing a spillover effect extent estimation model…

Land Acquisition and Infrastructure Development through Land Trust Laws: A Policy Framework for Asia

14 November 2018
The “land question” has invigorated agrarian studies and economic history since Marx and early 20th century writers on agrarian questions. In countries that allow private land ownership, compulsory land acquisition is the right and action of the government to take property not owned by it for…

Asia-Pacific Regional Cooperation and Integration Index

6 November 2018
Regional integration is a multi-dimensional process. It matters for inclusive growth. This presentation discusses the Asia-Pacific Regional Cooperation and Integration Index, a composite index developed by ADB that measures the degree of regional cooperation and integration in Asia and the Pacific.