17 December 2020
Authors: Jong Woo Kang and Shu Tian, ADB
Compared to Asian economies’ strong links in regional trade and value chains, Asia’s intraregional cross-border capital flows are strikingly low leading to the region’s heavy reliance on financing from outside of the region. In 2019, Asia’s intraregional investments accounted for just 17.9 and 19.9 per cent of its total debt and equity investments, respectively.
This is certainly an increase from earlier years, with both figures having grown steadily from 7.8 and 11.7 per cent respectively since 2001. Yet, more than 80 per cent of the region’s portfolio investments are still being made in assets outside Asia. With a huge portion of its regional capital being invested outside the region, Asia continues to rely on volatile non-resident portfolio investments, instead of regional ones, as its key financing sources.
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Author: Jong Woo Kang, ADB
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