This timely book reviews how South Asia is rising to the challenge of globalization. In particular, how are South Asian countries maximizing the benefits of globalization whilst minimizing its costs? What lessons have these countries learned from the East Asian financial crisis? What actions...

Nepal's lackluster economic performance during the post-conflict period (that is, after November 2006) has been driven by remittances from the export of labor services and the improved performance of the agricultural sector, which is still very much weather dependent. The authors make the case...

The basic objective of this paper is to develop a simultaneous equation system to examine the effect of foreign capital on growth of a sample of nine Asian developing countries. The major finding of the paper is that foreign capital flows have made a positive contribution to the growth of Asian...

The authors examine trends in foreign capital resources in the Asian developing countries and assess their contribution to economic growth and impact on economic efficiency. They also consider measures that might be adopted by the countries concerned to sustain inflows of market-oriented private...

Nepal's lackluster economic performance during the post-conflict period (that is, after November 2006) has been driven by remittances from the export of labor services and the improved performance of the agricultural sector, which is still very much weather dependent. The authors make the case...