The small states of the Asia and Pacific region face unique challenges in raising their growth potential and living …, as evidenced in the recent business cycle. The Asia and Pacific small states should continue rebuilding buffers and …

(FDEs) in Asia. This paper finds that spillovers emanating from the U.S. on FDEs in Asia have been small. The relative … insulation of emerging Asia from the global financial cycle can likely be attributed to the presence of managed capital accounts … developing Asia is likely to be small. …

developing Asia, have strengthened economic links between the Far East and Saudi Arabia. Second, financial sector development in … Asia and the United States has the potential to increasingly generate tension between policy objectives in Saudi Arabia. …

volatility. And for the global community, enhanced global cooperation, including a strong global financial safety net, offers … emerging markets effective protection against excessive volatility. …

Argentina (until 2001), Eastern Europe, and Asia. An index of precommitment is derived from an analysis of legislative …

Despite the rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Asia worsened during last two decades. We focus … our analysis is that there is still room to strengthen such policies in Asia to better achieve growth with shared … on inclusive growth could be sizeable in emerging Asia, since the estimated improvement in our proxy of inclusive growth …