Poverty and Development Division
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last updated : 4 April 2001

Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific, 2001

Contents

Part One. RECENT ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

I. Global economic developments and implications for the ESCAP region
Overview
Recent global macroeconomic trends
Trade, commodities and capital flows
Implications for the ESCAP region
Near-term policy issues

Chapter I in Acrobat file

II. Macroeconomic performance, issues and policies
Regional overview
Developing economies of the ESCAP region
Asian least developed countries
Pacific island economies
North and Central Asia
South and South-West Asia
South-East Asia
East and North-East Asia
Developed countries of the region
Australia, Japan and New Zealand

Chapter II in Acrobat file

III. Socio-economic implications of demographic dynamics
Introduction
Demographic dynamics
Socio-economic implications
Population policy options

Chapter III in Acrobat file

Part Two. FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT

IV. Introduction

V. Domestic resource mobilization
Trends in savings and investment
The determinants of private savings
Instruments and institutions
obilization of government funds

Chapter V in Acrobat file

VI. External private resources
Foreign direct investment
Other private capital flows
Annex. Inward foreign direct investment policy regimes in selected Asian and Pacific countries: highlights

Chapter VI in Acrobat file

VII. Official flows
Rationale
Trends in and current distribution of ODA
Selected policy issues

Chapter VII in Acrobat file

VIII. International systemic issues
Reform of the international financial architecture
Context, rationale and objectives of reform
Conclusions

IX. Conclusions and recommendations
Domestic resource mobilization
International capital flows
Official flows
International systemic issues

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