Regional Economic Outlook

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Cover; Contents; Definitions; Executive Summary; I. Overview; Recent Macroeconomic Developments; Figures; 1.1. Emerging Asia: GDP Growth; 1.2. NIEs: Contributions to GDP Growth; 1.3. ASEAN-5: Contributions to GDP Growth; 1.4. Asia: Industrial Production; 1.5. Emerging Asia: Retail Sales Volume; 1.6. Emerging Asia: Exports of Goods; 1.7. Asia: Electronics Exports; Boxes; 1.1. Asian Electronics Exports: Recent Trends and the Outlook; 1.8. Emerging Asia: Core CPI; 1.9. Emerging Asia: Food CPI; 1.10. Emerging Asia: Consumer and Producer Prices; Tables; 1.1. Asia: Current Account Balances

1.11. Selected Asia: Nominal Effective Exchange Rates1.12. NIEs: Nominal Effective Exchange Rates; 1.2. Asia: Official Reserves; 1.13. ASEAN-5: Nominal Effective Exchange Rates; 1.2. ""Other Investment"" Flows in Asia: Why the Large Changes?; 1.3. Sovereign Wealth Funds; Recent Financial Market Developments; 1.14. Emerging Asia: Net Equity Inflows; 1.15. Sharpe Ratios; 1.16. Yen Trading Positions; 1.17. Yen Carry Trade Return (Short JPY, Long Listed Currency) (July 19, 2007-August 17, 2007); 1.18. Yen Carry Trade Return (Short JPY, Long Listed Currency) (August. 17, 2007-September. 28, 2007)

1.19. Credit Default Swaps: 5-Year Sovereign Spreads1.20. EMBI Global Sovereign Spreads; 1.4. Growth in the Asset Management Industry in Hong Kong SAR and Singapore; The Outlook and Risks; 1.21. Hedge Funds: Total Return; 1.3. Asia: Real GDP Growth; 1.4. Asia: Real Export Growth; 1.5. Asia: Investment Growth; 1.6. Asia: Private Consumption Growth; Policy Implications; 1.7. Asia: Selected Fiscal Indicators; 1.22. Private Sector Inflation Forecasts; II. Ten Years After the Crisis: How Much Stronger Is Asia?; 2.1. A Selection of Recent Asia Critiques; Key Lessons from the Asian Crisis

2.1. Crisis-Affected Countries: Nominal Exchange Rates, 1994-972.2. Crisis-Affected Countries: Nominal Exchange Rates, 1999-2007; 2.3. Crisis-Affected Countries: Corporate Debt-Equity Ratio; 2.4 Selected Asia: Household Assets-Liabilities Ratio; 2.5. Foreign Currency Loans; 2.6. Nonperforming Loans Ratio; The Challenges Ahead; 2.7. Emerging Asia: Corporate Governance Ratings; 2.8. Emerging Asia: Governance Indicators; 2.9. Emerging Asia Excluding India: Real GDP and Real Export Growth; 2.10. Real GDP and Electronics Exports Growth; 2.11. Credit to Private Sector

2.12. Real House Prices and Real Income, 1999-20072.13. Stock Market Indices; 2.14. Price-Earnings Ratio; Conclusions; 2.15. China: GDP Components; III. Sterilized Intervention in Emerging Asia: Is It Effective?; 3.1. Cumulative Foreign Exchange Flows and Reserve Accumulation; 3.2. Reserve Adequacy Ratios; What Is Sterilized Intervention?; Motives for Intervention, Channels for Effectiveness, and Evidence from the Literature; Has Intervention Been Effective in Emerging Asia?; 3.3. Foreign Exchange Turnover; 3.1. India: Intervention and Change in Reserves; Testing Effectiveness

3.4. Sterilization Coefficient

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