protectionist pressures around the world, including in the region. Deeper integration will encourage agglomeration economies and …

around the world and revised the price of risk upward, triggering a global liquidity shortage. The ensuing search for … heightened risk aversion and an ongoing deleveraging across the world is causing capital to retreat from developing countries and … the first decline in world trade volumes in a quarter century …

outlook for the world economy, economic activity in most East Asian economies continued at strong rates through the end of …. East Asia's trade and financial relations with the rest of the world have become steadily more diverse. The region is … becoming more of a growth pole in the world economy, proving to be a force for stability at a time when the industrial …

infrastructure provision worldwide. Geographically, this report focuses on two of the world's fastest growing regions, East Asia and … Pacific (EAP) and South Asia (SAR), which also account for approximately 35.8 percent of the world's extreme poor. The report …