List of background materials

• ESCAP (Hard copies will be available in Jakarta)
1. Mr Azizul Islam, Issues on Tax Reforms
2. Item 7 (a) 56^th session 1-7 June 2000, Emerging Issues and Developments at the Regional Level: Regional Economic Cooperation
3. Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2000 Part One: Recent Economic and Social Developments
4. Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2000 Part Two: Economic and Financial Monitoring and Surveillance
5. LDC Series; No: 2, Enhancing effectiveness of Aid
6. Development Papers No. 20, Asian Economic Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Policy Lessons
7. Growth with Equity: Policy Lessons from the Experiences of Selected Asian Countries
8. Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 1999, Part Two: Asia and the Pacific into the Twenty-first Century: Information Technology, Globalization, Economic Security and Development
9. Financial Sector Reform, Liberalization and Management for Growth and Stability in the Asian and the Pacific Region: Issues and Experience
10. Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 1998, Chapter III: Managing the external sector
11. Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 1998, Chapter IV: Growth and equity
• UNCTAD
  1. Yilmaz Akyüz, "Causes and Sources of the Asian Financial Crisis", at: http://www.unctad-10.org/index_en.htm (look under "Host country event")
  2. UNCTAD, Trade and Development Report, 1998, Part I, Chapters 3 & 4: (available at: http://www.unctad.org/en/pub/pubframe.htm)
  3. UNCTAD DISCUSSION PAPERS: (available at http://www.unctad.org/en/pub/pubframe.htm)
  • No. 143 by Yilmaz Akyüz & Andrew Cornford, "Capital Flows to Developing Countries and the Reform of the International Financial System"
  • No. 148 by Yilmaz Akyüz, "The Debate on the International Financial Architecture: Reforming the Reformers"
  4. G-24 DISCUSSION PAPERS: (available at http://www.unctad.org/en/pub/pubframe.htm)
     • No. 3 by Andrew Cornford, "The Basle Committee's Proposals for Revised Capital Standards"
     • No. 6 Devesh Kapur and Richard Webb, "Governance-related Conditionalities of the IFIs" (forthcoming)
  5. G-24 DISCUSSION PAPERS: (pdf files attached)
     • No. 4 by Katharina Pistor, "The Standardization of Law and its Effect on Developing Economies"
     • No. 5 by Andrés Velasco, "Exchange Rate Policies for Developing Countries: What have we learned? What do we still not know?"
  6. Peter Bofinger, "The European Monetary System (1979-1988)Achievements, flaws and applicability to other regions of the world"
     (Document in Word and Acrobat format)

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