Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128552 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 438
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila
Abstract: 
Recent key challenges highlight the need to revisit Asia's financial development. These include the region's growth slowdown since the global crisis, compounded by a less benign external environment; internal structural challenges, such as population aging; and the maturing of much of the region into middle-income status. The evolving shift in the region's growth paradigm from one based primarily on investment to one based on both investment and productivity growth also underscores the urgency for financial development. For economic growth to benefit more from a sound and efficient financial system, financial development should be complemented with structural and policy reforms in other areas. This means that financial development and inclusion work best in a policy environment that is conducive to growth and development.
Subjects: 
economic growth
finance sector
financial development
financial inclusion
productivity
JEL: 
E44
G20
G28
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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