Recent key challenges highlight the need to revisit Asia's financial development. These include the region's growth slowdown since the global crisis, compounded by a less benign external environment; internal structural challenges, such as population aging; and the maturing of much of the region...

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Natural Resources and Economic Performance -- Declining Terms of Trade -- Commodity Price Volatility -- Resource Pulls and Crowding Out -- Dutch Disease -- Assessing the Resource Curse -- Conclusion -- Natural Resources...