This paper draws on COIC's experience with deposit-taking institutions during the 1980s and 1990s and presents a number of early warning indicators of financial distress. Early warning indicators do not eliminate bank failures. However, they should lead to early intervention and consequently...

This volume contains selected papers presented at the Eleventh SEACEN Meeting of Directors of Supervision held in Kuala Lumpur, 8-10 October 1997. It covers an opening address and introduction; financial system soundness and monetary and supervisory policies; approaches to risk-based...

A robust empirical determinant of long-term economic growth in many developing countries has been the expansion and diversification of the export sector. The latter, in turn, has been influenced by capital accumulation and economic growth. The growth model developed here explores this...