This paper explores the potential for regional cooperation between Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia Pacific. The first section provides an overview of regionalism and how it evolved as a strategy to manage regional externalities. The second section provides a background on Asian...

The paper summarizes the similarities and differences among Asian and Latin American countries, compares their macroeconomic performances before and after the crisis, and discusses crisis prevention and management. Lessons are drawn from both Asian-type and Latin-American-type currency crises.

The paper looks at the relative importance of reforms in different regions and corresponding trade performance.

This paper compares the experience of growth performance and macroeconomic adjustment between East Asia and Latin America from 1970 to 2000.

Substantial attention has been paid in recent years to the risk of maturity mismatch in emerging markets. Although this risk is microeconomic in nature, the evidence advanced thus far has taken the form of macro correlations.

This paper questions whether the East Asian financial architecture can be developed in the short-term around the concept of regional currency swap arrangements.

This paper seeks to explore aspects of a possible scenario of parallel 'trade blocs' using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to estimate the effects of an East Asian 'trade bloc' and the FTAA on each other, and on the rest of the world.