Contents: Foreword / by Yasuyuki Sawada
Overview and synthesis / Benno Ferrarini, Marcelo M. Giugale, and Juan J. Pradelli
Part I. A diagnosis of asia's debt
1. Debt in asia: Anatomy, evolution, and prospects / Juan Pablo Paladino and Juan J. Pradelli
2. Japan's public debt sustainability before and after covid-19 / Jérémie Cohen-Setton and Keita Oikawa
3. People's republic of China: Features and recent evolution of corporate debt / Ninghua Zhong and Mi Xie
4. Asia's lower-income countries: Concessional public debt, concessional rescues / Nicolas Depetris-Chauvin
5. Pacific islands' debt: Financing post-covid-19 recovery amid precarious sustainability / Roland Rajah and Alexandre Dayant
6. Subnational debt: Developing a sustainable market / Lili Liu
7. Asia's corporate debt: Assessing its role in financial vulnerability / Hernán D. Seoane
8. Household debt: Supply-driven sugar rushes / Maria Teresa Punzi
Part II. The risks behind asia's debt
9. Fiscal uncertainty: The thankless task of forecasting asia's fiscal accounts / Ugo Panizza
10. Fiscal space: Asia's fiscal safety net has shrunk / Andrea F. Presbitero
11. Contingent liabilities: Monitoring exposures that are difficult to measure / Timothy C. Irwin
12. Debt generators: The case of energy subsidies / Klaus Enders
13. Population aging and debt / Sang-Hyop Lee, Andrew Mason, and Donghyun Park
Part III. What next? Policies to keep asia's debt sustainable
14. Debt management capacity: A tale of three asias / Phillip Anderson
15. Fiscal insurance: A new tool of fiscal stability / Luis de la Plaza
16. Thematic bonds to diversify fiscal sources / Farah Imrana Hussain
Index.