This paper outlines an expanded and more challenging role for multilateral development banks (MDBs) in the provision of longer term development finance. The traditional role has to be further refocused and expanded to cover mobilization of private sector resources, both external and internal.

This paper examines patterns and determinants of exports in nine East and Southeast Asian economies, with an emphasis on the increasing important role of parts and components in total exports. To see whether exports in parts and components are "special" and to allow comparisons, export equations...

Regional economic integration is both a deregulatory project, involving the removal of barriers to the movement of goods and services, as well as a re-regulatory project, involving the adoption of common economic, social, and environmental standards to enable the market to function. The removal...