Books

Shaping the Future of the Asia and the Pacific-Latin America and the Caribbean Relationship
This book examines the economic ties between Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In a mere decade, Asia has become LAC's second-largest trading partner. This trade relationship has greatly increased LAC's strategic and economic importance to Asia. The volume is a major collaborative effort by the Asian Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank Institute, and the Inter-American Development Bank.

ASEAN 2030: Toward a Borderless Economic Community - Draft Highlights
This booklet looks at the key factors likely to determine the next two decades of ASEAN economic development. The full-length study will be published in two volumes in 2012. ASEAN 2030 seeks to identify the aspirations of individual countries and the region as a whole; to investigate the key challenges to fulfilling these aspirations; and to offer policy options.

Implications of the Global Financial Crisis for Financial Reform and Regulation in Asia
This book highlights the challenges imposed by the global financial crisis—(i) preventing financial crises; (ii) responding to financial crises if they do occur; (iii) managing international capital flows; and (iv) deepening and integrating financial markets to provide an alternative source of funding to foreign capital flows—and suggests policy recommendations to address them.

Service Sector Reforms Asia-Pacific Perspectives
The papers in this volume were presented at a conference on "Reforming Services for Inclusive and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific," organized by ADBI and its partners, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT).

Monetary and Currency Policy Management in Asia
Monetary and Currency Policy Management in Asia draws lessons from the financial crisis of 1997–1998, and the global financial crisis of 2007–2009 and makes concrete macroeconomic policy recommendations aimed at minimizing the impacts of an economic and financial downturn, and setting the stage for an early return to sustainable growth. This is one of the first books since the global financial crisis to address the implications of the crisis for monetary and currency policy in emerging market economies, especially in Asia.

Services Trade: Approaches for the 21st Century
This report looks into the future for trade in services, and makes a number of recommendations to increase and improve such trade. It arises from a conference held in Hong Kong, China, in June 2011, jointly organized by ADBI and the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council.

Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific: How Can Countries Adapt?
This book compiles policies and best practices on climate change adaptation, focusing on the structural and nonstructural measures applied in the Asia and the Pacific region to adapt to climate change. It focuses on water resources, agriculture, and natural resources management, the most vital sectors for the region, from environmental, social, and economic perspectives. A prepublication highlights booklet is available.

Asian Perspectives on Financial Sector Reforms and Regulation
In the second in a series on emerging markets published by ADBI and Brookings Institution Press, editors Masahiro Kawai and Eswar Prasad and their contributors analyze the major domestic macroeconomic and financial policy issues that could limit the growth potential of Asian emerging markets, such as rising inflation and surging capital inflows, with the accompanying risks of asset and credit market bubbles and of rapid currency appreciation.

The Global Financial Crisis, Future of the Dollar, and the Choice for Asia
This book contains papers delivered at the conference "The Global Financial Crisis, Future of the Dollar, and the Choice of Asia" held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, on 1 June 2009. It also contains verbatim records of the round table discussions at the conference.

Financial Market Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets
In this timely volume Masahiro Kawai, Eswar Prasad, and their contributors offer a systematic overview of recent developments in—and the latest thinking about—regulatory frameworks in both developed countries and emerging markets. Their analyses and observations clearly point out the challenges to improving regulation, efficiency of markets, and access to the financial system. Policymakers and financial managers in emerging markets will find this book invaluable as they struggle to learn from the recent global financial crisis and to restructure and reform their financial markets.

Asia and Policymaking for the Global Economy
After analyzing the dynamics of growth in Asia, this new volume evaluates the scope for policy coordination among key economies, focusing on Asia. The contributors analyze financial stability in emerging Asia and then assess the implications of Asia's increasing role within the newly emerging global economic governance, paying particular attention to reform of the international monetary system.

Asia's Free Trade Agreements: How is Business Responding?
The spread of Asia's free trade agreements (FTAs) has sparked an important debate on the impact of such agreements on business activity. This pioneering study uses new evidence from surveys of East Asian exporters—including Japan, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea and three ASEAN economies of the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand—to shed light on the FTA debate.

Managing Capital Flows: The Search for a Framework
This book provides analyses that can help policymakers develop a framework for managing capital flows that is consistent with prudent macroeconomic and financial sector stability.

The Asian Tsunami: Aid and Reconstruction After a Disaster
The death toll following the 2004 Asian tsunami—close to 230,000 people—was stunning. The devastation that the tsunami caused highlights the need to strengthen approaches to disaster risk reduction activities across Asia. Summarizing hundreds of reports and articles about the disaster, this book underlines the fact that global disaster risks are highly concentrated in poor countries. And within those countries, it is usually poorer communities who are especially hard-hit when disasters strike.

Effects of Social Policy on Domestic Demand
ADBI's 12th Annual Conference pursued the objective of formulating appropriate long-term responses to the global financial crisis, focusing on social policies and their impact on domestic demand.

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