the degree of risk-sharing in East Asia has improved along with the observed rise in integration in the region. Higher …-sharing continues to be low in Asia. The increase in cross-economy correlation in consumption coincided with an even higher cross …

regionalist projects in Asia throughout the 1990s. As they demonstrate, Asian countries, especially Japan, have held a strong … desire to establish an Asia-only regional cooperation framework at least since the early 1990s. The basic policy stance of …

The remarkable economic growth of Asia has been the defining feature of the second half of this century. This book … offers a comprehensive overview of the scientific, technological and economic factors which enabled Asia to make such a … predictions for how Asia might face up to the new challenges of the next millennium …