Author/Editor: Adil Mohommad, Charlotte Sandoz, Piyaporn Sodsriwiboon.

Release Date:February, 2021

At the macro level, productivity is driven by technology and the efficiency of resource allocation, as outcomes of firms’ decision making. The relatively high level of resource misallocation in more...

Author/Editor: Sarwat Jahan, Jayendu De, Fazurin Jamaludin, Piyaporn Sodsriwiboon, Cormac Sullivan.

Release Date:April, 2019

Financial inclusion is a multidimensional concept and countries have chosen diverse methods of enhancing financial inclusion with varying degrees of results. The heterogeneity of financial inclusion more...

Author/Editor: Elena Loukoianova, Yongzheng Yang, Si Guo, Leni Hunter, Sarwat Jahan, Fazurin Jamaludin, Umang Rawat, Johanna Schauer, Piyaporn Sodsriwiboon, Yiqun Wu.

Release Date:September, 2018

Asia has made significant progress in financial inclusion, but both its across-country and intra-country disparities are among the highest in the world. The gaps between the rich and the poor, rural more...

Author/Editor: Florence Jaumotte, Piyaporn Sodsriwiboon.

Release Date:June, 2010

The paper examines the causes, consequences, and potential cures of the large current account deficits in the Southern Euro Area (SEA). These were mostly driven by a decline in private saving rates. more...

Author/Editor: Piyaporn Sodsriwiboon, Sanjay Kalra.

Release Date:April, 2010

Convergence and spillovers across countries and within countries are old, but recurrent policy concerns, and India is no exception to this rule. This paper examines convergence and spillovers across more...