This paper discusses how financial crises in emerging Asia and Japan worked as catalysts for legal reforms. The …

levels - and evolutionary processes of economic integration in light of regional policy targets in Asia. The analysis …

new regional institutions that Asia needs to establish to contribute to this evolving global economic architecture. …

capital markets. The main policy implication is that governments in Asia should continue and/or strengthen pension reforms …

Financial safety nets in Asia have come a long way since the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) of 1997 - 98. Not wanting to …

To the extent that financial contagion from the United States and the euro area crisis has occurred in Asia, this paper …

schemes in Asia, informed by insights from theory and international experience. The paper identifies alternative forms of …Rapid population ageing and economic transformation in Asia raise the policy challenge of ensuring income security in …

Trade integration and free trade agreement (FTA)-led cooperation between Asia and Latin America has increased since the … early 2000s. Using new criteria, this paper examines whether Asia-Latin America FTAs have facilitated market-led integration … by liberalizing trade and behind the border regulatory barriers. Overall Asia-Latin America FTAs provide the foundations …

Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of … gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity … composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began with Japan in the 1950s and the Republic of Korea and Taipei,China from …