Singapore has weathered the Asian financial crisis better than most Asian economies. This paper examines the roots of Singapore's resilience and assesses Singapore's policy responses to the crisis. It argues that Singapore has used the exchange rate and wage instruments effectively during the crisis. Singapore's managed exchange rate system allowed it to quickly depreciate the Singapore dollar …
Buku ini berisi naskah dan penjelasan putusan yang disetujui konferensi Asia-Afrika di kota Bandung, seperti disiarkan pada sidang -penutup pada hari minggu tanggal 24 April 1955
Kertas Kebijakan Prospek Perkembangan Strategis Arsitektur Kawasan Asia Pasifik 2010-2020: Ini mungkin merujuk pada sebuah dokumen kebijakan atau penelitian yang membahas prospek dan perkembangan strategis terkait dengan arsitektur kawasan Asia Pasifik selama periode 2010-2020. Dokumen ini mencakup berbagai aspek seperti ekonomi, politik, keamanan, dan lain-lain dalam konteks kawasan Asia Pasifik.
The volume consists of two parts. Part 1 discusses economic friction in the Asia-Pacific region from three aspects: macroeconomic and microeconomic friction, and that between the state and the market mechanism. Included in the discussion are the recent financial crisis and the economic friction it entailed, the trend of regional integration and its impact on internal and external trade and fore…
In the early 1990s, the World Bank labelled seven East Asian economies -- among them, four in Southeast Asia -- as "miracle economies", which had achieved extraordinarily high rates of economic growth for several decades. In 1996, on the eve of ASEAN's thirtieth birthday, Southeast Asia was experiencing unprecedented harmony and prosperity. For the first time ever, the region's six main, intern…
This is the first book to specify the type of economic system that has arisen in Central Asia, replacing the simplistic ideas of 'petro-state' or 'resource dependent.' The book presents three types of state capitalism now established in the former Soviet Union states of Eurasia — crony, dual-sector, and predatory capitalism. It provides first-hand research based on extensive interviewing in t…
Dalam buku Asia Hemisfer Baru Dunia: Pergeseran Kekuatan Global ke Timur yang Tak Terelakkan, Kishore Mahbubani mengulas dengan bukti-bukti keberhasilan negara di Asia yang berkembang menjadi kekuatan utama dunia, terutama China dan India. Namun, yang menjadi ironi adalah ketika kekuatan-kekuatan baru dari Asia itu tumbuh dengan mengadopsi nilai-nilai Barat, kini justru Barat mulai merasa teran…
In August 1998, the Asian currency crisis that had started in mid-1997 metastasized into a global financial crisis with the devaluation of the rouble and a declaration of a Russian Government default on its internal debt. Is this the first wave of such crises the world will see in the future? One common feature among the countries that have fallen victim to the crisis is that they were all…
This book contains: 1. Economic crisis and growing intraregional tensions 2. The economic development of Central Asia in the 1990s 3. Basic problems of market transition in Central Asia 4. Adapting globalization 5. Foreign trade and investment 6. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: The economic consequences of membership in the World Trade Organization 7. Central Asia and the Asian-Pacific Region…
This collection of papers is only a subset of a much larger body of papers, the result of a collaboration among about 50 scholars from the Asia Pacific region, which have been commissioned under the so-called "Quadrilateral Project." That project was jointly sponsored by the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley; the University of Tokyo, the Centre for Strategic an…