International support to the sustainable development of SIDS has been on the international policy agenda for a long time, whereas challenges are intensifying. Stabilizing global economic and financial markets and international measures to reduce climate changes are indispensable to reduce...

This paper examines the current situation pertaining to trade and financial integration in East Asia from various approaches and discusses potential linkages between intra-regional trade and financial integration. This paper also offers policy suggestions based upon its analyses that take full...

As of September 2008, the vulnerabilities accumulated during the previous periods overlapped the devastating effects of the crisis in the new member states (NMS) of the European Union, deteriorating the main macro-indicators and increasing the economic instability, which generated a profound...

Modern economies are characterized by endemic financial crisis, a good performance of the financial systems requiring the guarantee of the deposits and the regulating authority of the central bank. The current economic and financial crisis has as real causes the increase in the prices of certain...

Good governance is a key component of policies and reforms for poverty reduction, for national and global security as well as for the promotion of democracy and human rights. Many developing countries, particularly the least developed countries, are interested in created facilities for foreign...

The current global crisis is systemic by being propagated in a banking, financial and economic crisis. It represents a negative external demand shock for Western Balkan Countries (WBC) with an impact on the banking and financial sector first (dice the third 2008 quarter) and then, since the...