Global change and East Asian policy initiatives

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Contributors -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 What Globalization Means for East Asia -- 2 Hanging Together? On Monetary and Financial Cooperation -- 3 Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: A Role for Regionalism -- 4 New Regional Trading Developments in the Asia-Pacific Region -- 5 Harmonizing Competition Policies -- 6 The Public Sector -- 7 Corporate Governance, Industrial Policy, and the Rule of Law -- 8 Governance and the Internet -- 9 Education for Growth: Deepening or Widening? -- 10 Venture Capital Industries -- Index -- About the Editors -- Figures -- 3.1 Trade Intensity Index: Intraregional, 1980-2001 -- 3.2 Foreign Direct Investment in ASEAN by Source, 1995-2001 -- 3.3 Shares of East Asian Foreign Direct Investment Flows to ASEAN, Asian Newly Industrialized Economies, and China -- 6.1 Public Revenue of General Government, 1950-93 -- 6.2 Total Expenditure of Central Government, 1970-98 -- 6.3 Debt of Central Government, 1970-98 -- 6.4 Budget Balance of Central Government, 1970-98 -- 6.5 Evolution of Public Revenue as an Interaction of Economic Development and Political Regime -- 6.6 Evolution of Subsidies and Transfers as an Interaction of Economic Development and Political Regime -- 8.1 Links to Telephones, 2002 -- 8.2 Internet Usage -- 8.3 Openness to Information -- 9.1 Beginning Monthly Gross Wages in Singapore, 2001 -- Tables -- 2.1 Monthly Nominal Exchange Rate Volatility -- 2.2 Monthly Reserve Volatility -- 2.3 Monthly Interest Rate Volatility -- 2.4 Volatility Ratios -- 3.1 Openness and Global Integration Indicators -- 3.2 Import and Export Shares, 2001 -- 3.3 Trade Shares, Selected Economies and Selected Years -- 3.4 Intraregional Trade: Merchandise Exports within Regional Group -- 3.5 Trade Intensity Index, 2001.