Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Part I: The Structure of Finance in Asia -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Bird's-Eye View of Finance in Asia -- 3 Are There Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons in Asia's Stock Markets? -- 4 Bond Markets: Are Recent Reforms Working? -- Part II: Where Is...

Asia's financial systems proved resilient to the shocks from the global financial crisis, and growth since then has been strong. But new challenges have emerged in the region's economies, including demographics and aging, the need to diversify from bank-dominated systems, urbanization and...