Asia given the backdrop of a changing world in which development priorities and challenges are changing rapidly and the … Asia, provides some comparisons of their performance, notes their overlapping responsibilities, and explains current …

for East Asia's financial cooperation, including: (i) regional economic surveillance led by the Economic Review and Policy …

This study describes the development of regional financial arrangements in Asia and Europe, assesses their effects on … financial stability, and draws lessons for Asia from European experience. One of its main conclusions is that Asia needs to … achieving this include great power rivalries between Japan and the People's Republic of China and lingering concerns about …

sheet policy in the US vis-à-vis the euro area and Japan affects the supply of international US dollar loans by global banks …

Free trade agreements (FTAs) have proliferated in East Asia in recent years. As of December 2008, eight bilateral FTAs … and one plurilateral FTA involving Japan have entered into force; additional negotiations are ongoing with several more … countries. The proliferation of FTAs in Japan and other Asian countries is thought to be behind the perceived overlapping rules …

touch upon the implications for Asia and Japan, from the point of view of the choice of exchange rate regime as a method to …

bank-dominated financial systems in Asia, banks are the main source of financing for SMEs. For financial institutions, it … databases, such as the Credit Risk Database (CRD) of Japan. This will also help governments to formulate economic policies. In … this paper we define and describe in detail the role and characteristics of Japan's CRD in SME development and explain how …

creating a stable monetary zone in Asia, Japan needs to make significant efforts at the national and regional levels and …This paper discusses Japan's strategy for Asian monetary integration. It argues that Japan faces three major policy … in East Asia, and the most realistic option is for the region's emerging economies to adopt similar managed floating …

literature review of pay-for-performance in long-term care in the United States and in Asia. …