Front Contents

1. Global and regional economic developments: implications and prospects for the ESCAP region
   (Shahid Ahmed, ESCAP secretariat)
   
   
2. Sustainable development - an Asian perspective
   (Bibek Debroy)
   
   
3. Beyond "subsistence affluence": poverty in Pacific island countries (Marin Yari, ESCAP secretariat)
   
   
4. The Bangkok Agreement: prospects for trade expansion in the Asia-Pacific region (Harish Iyer, ESCAP secretariat)
   
   
5. Coping with epidemiological disease outbreaks: lessons from SARS (Amarakoon Bandara, ESCAP secretariat)
   
   
6. The development of e-financing: implications for SMEs
   (Seok-Dong Wang, ESCAP secretariat)
   
   
7. Basel II: the path to promoting financial stability in the Asian and Pacific region? (Lene Andersen)

   
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