This paper focuses on post-crisis fiscal priorities in the ASEAN-5 economies - Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Sound economic fundamentals and timely and forceful policy responses to the crisis, including fiscal stimulus, contributed to rapid economic recovery in the...

Attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will require that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries continue their considerable past achievements. The Millennium Development Goals-which were to have been met by 2015-helped focus attention on achieving progress...

This paper reviews developments in the Australian economy during 1994–95. In 1994/95, real GDP grew by 41⁄2 percent as growth in domestic demand accelerated sharply, rising by 63⁄4 percent, despite the impact of a severe drought on farm output. Business investment increased by 171⁄2...