(China)--and the recent reforms to them provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All …

agricultural trade negotiations set forth in the World Trade Organization Ministerial held in Doha, Qatar in November 2001. He … quite heterogeneous across developing regions. Shares of agriculture in GDP are still high in the East Asia and Pacific and … South Asia regions. Moreover, data indicate that trade reform in export partners, particularly OECD countries, will affect a …

This paper documents the major trends in financial development in Asia since the early 1990s and the spillovers to … firms. It compares Asia with advanced and emerging countries and uses both aggregate and disaggregate indicators. Financial … systems in Asia remain less developed than in advanced countries but more developed than in Eastern Europe and Latin America …

This paper provides an historical overview of both the evolution of the economic performance of the developing world … between high-income countries and the developing world, with only a limited number (less than 10 percent of the economies in … the world) managing to progress out of lower or middle-income status to high-income status. The last decade witnessed a …

-varies sharply around the world, with large differences among countries at similar levels of income. This paper argues that …