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last updated : 20 December 1999
Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific, 1998
Contents
- I. Global economic developments: implications for the ESCAP region
- Overview
- Output and employment trends
- Developed countries
- Developing economies
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International trade and financial flows
- Trade
- Financial flows
- Implications for the ESCAP region
- II. Macroeconomic performance and policies
- A regional overview
- The developing economies of the ESCAP region
- Least developed countries
- Pacific island economies
- North and Central Asia
- South and South-West Asia
- South-East Asia
- East and North-East Asia
- Developed countries of the region
- Australia, Japan and New Zealand
- III. Managing the external sector
- Introduction
- Major aspects of recent policy liberalization
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Trade liberalization
- Liberalization of investment and financial flows
- Balance-of-payments trends
- The current account
- The capital account
- The crisis in East and South-East Asia
- The manifestations and the evolution
- Towards a diagnosis
- The prescription, the progress and the prospects
- Lessons and policy options
- Short-term
- Medium- to long-term
Chapter III in Acrobat file
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IV. Growth and equity
- Introduction
- Trends and patterns of equity
- Absolute poverty
- Inequality
- Linkage among growth, poverty and inequality
- Absolute poverty - interface with growth and inequality
- Growth and inequality: theory and evidence
- Case studies
- Bangladesh
- India
- Philippines
- Republic of Korea
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Major policies for promoting growth with equity
- Human resources development
- Agricultural development
- Selected aspects of development policies
- Target-oriented programmes
- Crisis management
Chapter IV in Acrobat file
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