Author/Editor: Pragyan Deb, Harald Finger, Kenichiro Kashiwase, Yosuke Kido, Siddharth Kothari, Evan Papageorgiou, Henry Hoyle, Anne Oeking.

Release Date:December, 2022

The paper intends to highlight challenges in Asian housing markets linked to fast price rises especially in the advanced economies since COVID, and more broadly including many EMs in the period more...

Author/Editor: W A Bauer, R S Craig, Jos� Garrido, Kenneth H Kang, Kenichiro Kashiwase, Sung Jin Kim, Yan Liu, Sohrab Rafiq.

Release Date:January, 2021

The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) triggered a sharp contraction of economic activity across Asia and the Pacific. Policymakers adopted a “whatever it takes” approach in their initial response, more...

Author/Editor: Masahiro Nozaki, Kenichiro Kashiwase, Ikuo Saito.

Release Date:August, 2014

Health spending has risen rapidly in Japan. We find two-thirds of the spending increase over 1990–2011 resulted from ageing, and the rest from excess cost growth. The spending level will rise more...

Author/Editor: Kenichiro Kashiwase, Masahiro Nozaki, Kiichi Tokuoka.

Release Date:December, 2012

This paper analyzes various reform options for Japan’s public pension in light of large fiscal consolidation needs of the country. The most attractive option is to increase the pension eligibility more...

Author/Editor: Laura E Kodres, Kristian Hartelius, Kenichiro Kashiwase.

Release Date:January, 2008

Despite recent turmoil, spreads on emerging market countries' sovereign bonds have fallen dramatically since mid-2002. Some have attributed the fall to improved economic fundamentals while others to more...