The Development of Local Debt Markets in Asia
32 Pages Posted: 14 Jun 2011
Date Written: June 2011
Abstract
The paper makes an assessment of the progress made in developing local debt markets in emerging Asia. Market development has been limited by hurdles confronting borrowers and lenders, current and potential liquidity providers, and insufficient support from government policies and regulations. Besides fostering a credit culture to deepen local debt markets, the issue of critical size can be addressed through an integrated regional market for local currency bonds that provides greater scale, efficiency, and access. With rapid economic growth in Asia, a key challenge is to generate financial assets that can provide the underlying collateral for expanding fixed-income markets, and hence domestic and regional investment opportunities.
Keywords: Access to capital markets, Asia, Bond issues, Bond markets, Borrowing, Capital markets, Corporate sector, Debt management, Emerging markets, External financing
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