the economies of East Asia and the Pacific since its first meeting in Tokyo in January 1968. The 38th PAFTAD conference … region's future, and the role it might play in defending the global system that has underwritten its historic rise. Asia has … the economies of East Asia and the Pacific since its first meeting in Tokyo in January 1968. The book examined the state …

networks (IPNs), both globally and in Asia and the Pacific. A global dataset of firm-level data from developing countries was … both globally as well as in the Asia-pacific region reported access to finance as the key obstacle to their business … operations. Almost 60% of Asia-Pacific exporting SMEs rely exclusively on internal financing, while only 40% do so globally …