"A collection of selected articles related to the Asian experience with two crises -- the Asian financial crisis in 1997-98 and the global financial crisis of 2007-08 -- written by Dr Jong-Wha Lee, former chief economist of the Asian Development Bank. These papers are grouped into three broad...

Introduction -- Emerging markets perspectives on G-20 led financial reforms -- Global Finance Ten Years after the Global Financial Crisis -- Where is the US trade policy headed under the Trump Administration? -- Trade, Investment, and the Multilateral Trading System -- Technological Change and...

How to Make Finance a Force for Good Just as Thomas Piketty offered a sweeping critique and progressive reassessment of capitalism, former World Bank Group chief financial officer Bertrand Badre looks at the destructive role finance played in the global economic crisis of 2007-2008 and offers a...