Asia’s Digital Payment Links to Boost Regional Resilience

Asia’s digitalization push is increasingly focused on growth, inclusion, regional trade and investment, and financial [...]

Climate Risk Is Financial Risk: Why Asia’s Central Banks Cannot Wait and How They Should Respond

Climate risks are intensifying while transition progress remains too slow. Against the backdrop, central banks [...]

How AI Can Reshape Financial Inclusion in Developing Asia

1. AI opens a new path to true financial inclusion beyond access in developing Asia [...]

AI Adoption, Regional Productivity, and Inflation: Evidence from Korea and Implications for Monetary Policy

The relationship between artificial intelligence (AI), productivity, and inflation is complex and multifaceted. AI adoption [...]

Bullets and budgets: Measuring defense spending multipliers

This column examines the macroeconomic effects of defense spending shocks, with a focus on emerging [...]

Policy Lessons for Central Banks: High-Level Policy Roundtable on War, Oil Shocks, and Trade Restrictions

This blog post is based on the policy roundtable held on 15 May 2026, featuring [...]

Economics of Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Monetary Policy

This blog is based on a presentation made by Ceyhun Elgin at the SEACEN online [...]

Central Banks as Architects of Resilience: Why Governance, Independence, and Law Matter More Than Ever

The world of central banking is being reshaped at an unprecedented pace. Technological disruption, climate-related [...]