of financial integration or interrelatedness, asking how Asia compares with Europe and Latin America and with the base … more financially integrated than other regions. Asia, more interestingly, already seems to have made more progress on this … sample suggest that one factor holding back investment in foreign bonds in East Asia may be limited geographical …

This paper compares business cycles in Asia and in Latin America using structural vector autoregression analysis with … America, as opposed to Asia, output is affected more by external and domestic demand shocks …

America - one of the most vulnerable regions given its high, and rising, commodity dependence - and emerging Asia - which has …

is held abroad. There are large regional differences in this proportion, ranging from 5 percent in South Asia to 40 … percent in Africa. We explain cross-country differences in portfolio choice by variables that proxy differences in the risk … (HIPC) on capital repatriation; and why so much of Africa’s private wealth is held outside the continent …

Union but, when possible, transition countries, in Asia and Africa are also considered. The main findings are that …