in arresting continuing environmental degradation in the Asia and Pacific region. Quoting examples, the paper asserts …

). This paper examines the competitive position of suppliers from developing Asia in the expanded EU clothing market relative …

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are emerging as developing Asia's main policy tool for handling the region's excess …-risk, high-return investments, and are subject to a wide range of downside risks. The underlying nature of Asia's reserves, which … implication is that the transformation of Asia into a major exporter of capital raises the possibility that capital outflows can …

frequent, longer lasting, and more severe in Asia than in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries … financial crises or recessions in Asia. In view of the current global crisis and severe financial downturns, Asian economies are …

. An overwhelming response across Asia as international oil prices spiked in 2008 was to shield domestic consumers more …. Additionally, in combination with lower growth rates, higher spending to rev up demand across Asia is also worsening the fiscal …

capita even under our "low growth" scenario, poverty in developing Asia continues to decline in 2009 and 2010. What gets …

developing Asia. More specifically, we examine the root causes of the large and persistent current account surpluses that have … of welfare and economic growth. Based on our analysis, we recommend a number of concrete policy directions to help Asia …

Asia has run since the 1997-1998 Asian crisis. A country's current account surplus is, by definition, equal to its net …

alternative scenarios aimed at liberalizing migration flows from and within Asia. The first four scenarios consider the impact of … liberalizing migration flows into (i) developed Asia; (ii) North America, Europe, and Oceania; (iii) North America, Japan, Europe …, and Oceania; and (iv) the Middle East from the less developed economies of Asia. The fifth scenario involves regionally …