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Framing the Issues: Expanding Digital Financial Inclusion in the Philippines
The Philippines appears poised to become a world leader in the use of financial technology, or FinT
ech, due to several drivers.
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Global Opportunity Index: Global Investors' Growing Focus on Asia
Asia is gaining attractiveness and stands out as the most prolific economic region for global inves
tors in the new Global Opportunity Index.
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Increased Chinese Presence and Other Developments in the Southeast Asian Cross-Border M&A Landscape
This viewpoint focuses on the M&A landscape of Southeast Asia. Among the key findings for 2017
are:
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It Takes All Kinds: A Diverse Mix of Lenders Promotes Broad Access to Small Business Credit
Who lends to small businesses, and how is this changing over time? This paper challenges popular an
swers to this question. First, despite the growing role of non-banks, banks continue to be the most important source of credit for small businesses.
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Financing Urban Resiliency Investing in Complete Communities in the London City Region
By 2050, 68 percent of the world’s population will be living in cities, more than double the percen
tage reported in 1950. Urban growth has risen sharply since 2000, and many cities, London among them, are under extreme pressure to improve their lon
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Financing Urban Resiliency: Innovative Approaches to Deliver Affordable Housing in Chicago
In many US cities, concentrated poverty and chronic disinvestment have resulted in wide social, eco
nomic, and geographic disparities.
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Best-Performing Cities China 2017: The Nations Most Successful Economies
Now in its third edition, this report analyzes the latest and most comprehensive official data to t
rack the economic performance of Chinese cities.
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Lunch Program | The World in 2037: Asia On Demand
Businesses and entertainment are increasingly moving out of brick-and-mortar buildings and into th
e digital space, and Asia is poised to be the next hotbed of on-demand activities.
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Prestige and Purpose: Asia's Luxury Market
In 2017, Forbes reported that one out of every three billionaires are from the Asia-Pacific region
. That's a total of 720 Asian billionaires.
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The Asian Phenotype: An Unmet Medical Need?
For the last century, medical research has been key to the improvement in the health and longevity
of the world's population.
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Beyond the Belt and Road Initiative: Financing Asia's Needs
As protectionist policies shift trade from advanced economies toward more rapid-growing regions in
Asia, accessing capital in a financial system dominated by state and family entities will pose a challenge to capital adequacy to fund Asia's greatly-need
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Asia's Power Plays: The Economics of Geopolitics
Globalization and economic interdependence among Asia's countries rest precariously on increasingl
y tense geopolitical relations and competing security interests, including the North Korean nuclear threat, the China-India border standoff, and escalating
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