Informal credit markets form an important part of the financial systems of Asian developing countries, constituting as much as half of rural credit and a significant part of urban credit in many of them. However, information about informal credit markets is fragmentary. This contribution...

The broad objective of the article is to review the development experience of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and to indicate the type of development strategies that need to be evolved in the future. The author thinks that agricultural development, especially foodgrain production,...

The paper explores the role of government in economic development of South Korea and how that role has changed in the structural adjustment process, particularly during the 1980s. The policy mix of the government in promoting economic development. "Speed and flexibility" of policy response to...

After discussing explicit and implicit objectives of public sector enterprises in India, the article sketches out and analyses competitive methods of attaining public sector goals. Public sector research and some of its problems. The author concludes that the approach of the Government of India...

After sketching a positive theory of public sector intervention, the study explores the costs associated with the positive role of the public sector and inquires what the public sector should not have done rather than what it should have done in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, South Korea,...

The article analyses the factors that have contributed to the growing constraints on saving faced by the public sector in seven Asian developing countries (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines and Thailand). After examining the shares of public sector saving and investment...

After examining several measures of performance for Asian and Pacific developing economies, the study compares the performance of countries pursuing export promotion policies relative to those pursuing more inward-looking policies. The policy responses of the countries to the new and varied...

The authors attempt to assess the impact of falling commodity prices to many Asian and Pacific developing countries that export primary commodities. Factors contributing to the decline on the availability of foreign exchange and domestic resources for these countries. The implications for...

Since the early 1970s, the world economy experienced a series of difficulties resulting in sluggish economic growth. Some Asian developing countries responded to the difficulties rather well compared with countries in other developing regions of the world. However, their efforts towards economic...