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Are the Asia and Pacific Small States Different from Other Small States? »
Source: Are the Asia and Pacific Small States Different from Other Small States?
Volume/Issue: 2013/123
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Patrizia Tumbarello , Ezequiel Cabezon , and Yiqun Wu
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 22 May 2013
ISBN: 9781484339190
Keywords: micro states, Pacific islands, growth, volatility, terms of trade, trade openness, current account balance, external shocks, trade deficits, Open Economy Macroeconomics
The small states of the Asia and Pacific region face unique challenges in raising their growth potential and living standards relative to other small states due to their small populations, geographical isolation an...

Asia and Pacific : Small States Monitor, April 2014: Volume 1, Issue 1 »
Series: Other Periodicals
Author(s): Shari Boyce , Sergei Dodzin , Xuefei Bai , Ezequiel Cabezon , Fazurin Jamaludin , Yiqun Wu , and Rosanne Heller
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 11 April 2014
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475579611.029
ISBN: 9781475579611
Keywords: license, license fees, fiscal policy, commodity exporters, exporters
The work on the small states is an important component of the IMF's global policy agenda. Among the 36 member countries covered by the IMF Asia and Pacific Department (APD), 13 countries are developing small states...

Asia and Pacific Small States Monitor, August 2014 »
Series: Other Periodicals
Author(s): Shari Boyce , Sergei Dodzin , Ezequiel Cabezon , Fazurin Jamaludin , Yiqun Wu , and Rosanne Heller
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 August 2014
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781498309073.029
ISBN: 9781498309073
Keywords: natural disasters, disasters, monetary policy, fiscal multipliers, government spending
This issue of the Asia & Pacific Small States Monitor focuses on the challenges facing Asia and Pacific small states associated with natural disasters and climate change. Most tourism-oriented economies experienced...

Asia-Pacific Small States: Developments and Outlook »
Source: Asia and Pacific Small States Monitor, August 2014
Series: Other Periodicals
Author(s): Shari Boyce , Sergei Dodzin , Ezequiel Cabezon , Fazurin Jamaludin , Yiqun Wu , and Rosanne Heller
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 August 2014
ISBN: 9781498309073
Keywords: natural disasters, disasters, monetary policy, fiscal multipliers, government spending
Growth Developments Recent economic performance in the APD small states was uneven in the first few months of 2014 (Figure 1). Figure 1...

Asia-Pacific Small States: Developments and Outlook »
Source: Asia and Pacific : Small States Monitor, April 2014: Volume 1, Issue 1
Series: Other Periodicals
Author(s): Shari Boyce , Sergei Dodzin , Xuefei Bai , Ezequiel Cabezon , Fazurin Jamaludin , Yiqun Wu , and Rosanne Heller
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 11 April 2014
ISBN: 9781475579611
Keywords: license, license fees, fiscal policy, commodity exporters, exporters
Growth and Inflation Average growth in the small states in the Asia and Pacific region remained weak (1 percent) in 2013 and underperformed that in other small states—2 percent. Howe...

Capital Flows and Demographics-An Asian Perspective »
Source: Capital Flows and Demographics-An Asian Perspective
Volume/Issue: 2008/8
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Erik Lueth
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 2008
ISBN: 9781451868708
Keywords: demographics, capital accounts, global capital flows, capital mobility, capital outflows,
This paper calibrates the production functions of 176 countries to fit 2003 data and examines the capital flows that emerge, when labor forces change according to the 2007 UN population projections. It finds that d...

Chapter 8. Frontier Markets in Asia and Beyond »
Source: Frontier and Developing Asia : The Next Generation of Emerging Markets
Series: Books
Author(s): Alfred Schipke
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 10 April 2015
ISBN: 9781475595512
Keywords: Developing countries, exchange, emerging market, markets, banks
As growth in several major emerging market economies has slowed, economists and investors alike have shown more interest in a second group of countries in Asia and beyond—the frontier economies. A number of...

Chapter 4. Growth Slowdown: Are Frontier and Developing Asian Economies Different? »
Source: Frontier and Developing Asia : The Next Generation of Emerging Markets
Series: Books
Author(s): Alfred Schipke
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 10 April 2015
ISBN: 9781475595512
Keywords: Developing countries, exchange, emerging market, markets, banks
As is well known, generating growth in low-income countries with low capital stock, limited access to credit, and poor education systems is very challenging, and this phenomenon has been well studied in the...

Chapter 1. The Growing Importance of Frontier and Developing Asia »
Source: Frontier and Developing Asia : The Next Generation of Emerging Markets
Series: Books
Author(s): Alfred Schipke
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 10 April 2015
ISBN: 9781475595512
Keywords: Developing countries, exchange, emerging market, markets, banks
Even if a mountain is high, there is always a way to reach the top—and although the way might be full of danger, there is always a way for someone to get through it. (Vietnamese proverb)...

Definitions »
Source: Regional Economic Outlook, April 2018, Asia Pacific : Good Times, Uncertain Times: A Time to Prepare
Series: Regional Economic Outlook
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Asia and Pacific Dept
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 May 2018
ISBN: 9781484339886
In this Regional Economic Outlook: Asia and Pacific, the following groupings are employed: “ASEAN” refers to Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao P.D.R., Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, S...