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Financial Safety Nets in Asia

Financial Safety Nets in Asia

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The ASEAN Swap Arrangement (ASA) proved miserably inadequate in the face of the huge amounts of financing required by countries affected by the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC). Followed by an introduction, Section 2 looks at history and traces the evolution of the ASA from its early beginnings to the Chiang Mai Initiative (CMI) and its expansion. In Section 3, the authors describe the basic structure and features of the multilateralized CMI (CMIM), and the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office ( more...

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Sonia Hossain on December 12, 2012

Managing Capital Flows in an Economic Community

Managing Capital Flows in an Economic Community

The paper uses the emerging Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Economic Community as a motivation to explore the issue of capital flow management in an economic community. Although there is an increasingly shared view that capital flow management measures should be part of the routine policy toolkit of emerging market economies, the logic of an economic community appears incompatible with extensive controls on capital flows. Substantial, if not complete, capital account more...

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Sonia Hossain on September 10, 2012

Brunei Darussalam: Statistical Appendix

Brunei Darussalam: Statistical Appendix

Added by Zunia.org on July 21, 2012

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) Negotiations

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) Negotiations

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a trade agreement currently under negotiation between nine countries in three continents, including Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States and Vietnam. In late 2011 three additional countries--Japan, Canada and Mexico--announced their intention to join as well. The TPP has always been called a "high quality, 21st century" agreement that covers a range of topics not always found in free trade agreements. This more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 14, 2012

How Indonesia Sees ASEAN and the World

How Indonesia Sees ASEAN and the World

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Over the past few years Indonesia’s political landscape has altered somewhat as a result of the rise of new nationalist NGOs and mass movements, that have called upon the Indonesian government to take a stronger stand when defending Indonesia’s national identity and position in ASEAN. This paper looks at how Indonesia’s school textbooks present the other countries and societies of ASEAN to ordinary school children in Indonesia, and looks at how Indonesian identity is framed in relation to the more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 14, 2012

Services as a New Engine of Growth for ASEAN, China and India

Services as a New Engine of Growth for ASEAN, China and India

An increasing services orientation is likely to be a key feature of the economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People's Republic of China, and India (collectively referred to as "ACI") over the medium-term. This paper aims to present a compendium of relevant data on the state of the services sector in the ACI countries, focusing on its contribution to overall economic activity, employment, and growth. To do this, it relies heavily on standard international sources more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 7, 2012

Strengthening Financial Infrastructure

This study provides comparative perspectives on the current and prospective situation of financial market development in ASEAN, the PRC, and India, identifies key priorities for strengthening financial infrastructure to promote financial development and regional integration, and produces policy recommendations at the national, sub-regional and regional levels. The four priority areas covered by the study are: market development, opening, and efficiency; financial inclusion; achievement of more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 19, 2012

Waging Peace

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Border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia that caused dozens of casualties and displaced thousands have challenged the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to finally turn its rhetoric on peace and security into action. This report analyses the politics of the conflict and the role of ASEAN since the resumption of open hostilities in February 2011. It treats events as they directly relate to this diplomatic history but is not intended to be a detailed examination of either Thai or more...

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Sonia Hossain on January 29, 2012

Maternal, neonatal, and child health in southeast Asia

Maternal, neonatal, and child health in southeast Asia

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Although maternal and child mortality are on the decline in southeast Asia, there are still major disparities, and greater equity is key to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Case studies of reduction in mortality in Thailand and Indonesia indicate the varying extents of success and point to some factors that accelerate progress. The authors identified three major patterns of maternal and child mortality reduction: early, rapid downward trends (Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand more...

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Sonia Hossain on December 14, 2011

Brunei Darussalam: Statistical Appendix

Brunei Darussalam: Statistical Appendix

Added by Zunia.org on June 18, 2011

Monetary Integration in ASEAN+3

Monetary Integration in ASEAN+3

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Recently, the ASEAN+3 countries have taken a number of measures to bolster monetary integration. These include the establishment of the ASEAN+3 Economic Review and Policy Dialogue and the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization (CMIM).This paper assesses the views of ASEAN+3 opinion leaders through a perception survey. The opinion leaders feel that regional monetary unit(RMU), CMIM, and ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office(AMRO) could go a long way in deepening monetary integration in the more...

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Sonia Hossain on June 6, 2011

Natural Resources and Non-Cooperative Trade Policy

Natural Resources and Non-Cooperative Trade Policy

When looking at the conditions of trade in natural resources the world appears upside down: tariff protection in natural resources sectors is generally lower than for overall merchandise trade, while export restrictions are twice as likely as in other sectors. On the other hand, tariff escalation is significant in natural resources sectors, where materials in their raw state face, on average, lower duties than in their processed form.In this paper, we discuss how export taxes and tariff more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 10, 2011

Education on Effective and Productive Utilization of ICT

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In the past years, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become one of the most important driving forces of today’s economic and social development. However, as much as the benefits ICT has brought, the rapid advancement of ICT has also posed new challenges, such as cybercrimes, Internet addiction and online privacy violations. In many cases, the problem lies in the fact that most of individual ICT users are not very knowledgeable about ICT and the threats it may pose. This is more...

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Julia Zoo on March 24, 2008

EU to observe Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Sierra Leone

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The European Commission is deploying an EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) for the Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Sierra Leone scheduled to take place on 11 August 2007. The EOM is a European Commission contribution to supporting peace and democracy in Sierra Leone...

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German Yáñez on July 11, 2007

Brunei to Run Capacity-Building Courses for Youth Functionaries of Commonwealth Youth Programme

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The 8th Diploma in 'Youth Development Work' Progress Review Meeting facilitated by the Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP), ran till June 2 in Brunei. It demonstrated the country's commitment by ensuring that the Regional Youth Caucus representative for Brunei, Awangku Kamal Ghadafi, and caucus members Dayangku Syatirah Adnan and Liyana Imani Latif make a crucial contribution to the deliberations through their participation in the meeting. The ceremony was held at the Cesar Grand Hall of the more...

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Anuradha Bhatta... on June 17, 2007

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