Economics and Development

Year 2008

Content:

• Relationship with ADB
• Impact of Assistance
• Future Directions
• Operational Challenges
• Partnership
• Cofinancing and Procurement

Content:

• Business freedom
• Trade ''
• Fiscal ''
• Monerary ''
• Investment ''
• Financial ''
• Labor ''
• Freedom from Corruption
• Property right
• Government size

Presentation by:

• Sylvia Solf and Justin Yap

Content:

• Chapter 1. Assessing Risks to Global Financial Stability
• Chapter 2. Structured Finance: Issues of Valuation and Disclosure
• Chapter 3. Market and Funding Illiquidity: When Private Risk Becomes Public
• Glossary
• Annex: Summing Up by the Acting Chair
• Statistical Appendix

Content:

• Overview of recent global economic performance and short-term prospects for the world economy and of some key global economic policy and development issues.

Content:

• The report highlights recent trends in agriculture, rural development, land, desertification and drought.

Year 2007

Content:

• Foreword
• 1. Inequality in Asia
• 1.1. Introduction
• 1.2. Inequality in Asia: An Overview
• 1.3. Inequality: Concepts and Measurement
• 1. 4. Inequality Estimates for Asia
• 1.5 A More In-depth Look at Inequality
• 1.6. Inequality of Wages
• 1.7 Looking Further Into the Causes of Inequality
• 1.8. Public Policy and Inequality
• 1.9. Concluding Remarks
• References
• Appendices
• 2. Millennium Development Goals Tables
• 3. Regional Tables
• 4. Country Tables
• Sources
• Definittions

Bank Negara Information Sheet

Content:

• Poverty and Social
• Key Economic Ratios and Long Term Trends
• Structure of the Economy
• Prices and Government Finance
• Trade
• Balance of Payments
• External Debt and Resource Flows

Content:

• Background
• Oil
• Natural gas
• Profile
• Links
• Sources

International Monetary Fund

Regional Economic Outlook Asia and Pacific

Content:

• Definitions
• Executive summary
• I.Overview
• I.I Recent Macroeconomic Developments
• I.II Recent Financial Market Developments
• I.III The Outlook and Risks
• I.IV Policy Implications
• II. Ten Years After the Crisis: How Much Stronger Is Asia?
• II.I Key Lessons from the Asian Crisis
• II.II The Challenges Ahead
• II.III Conclusions
• III. Sterilized Intervention in Emerging Asia: Is It Effective?
• III.I What Is Sterilized Intervention?
• III.II Motives for Intervention, Channels for Effectiveness, and Evidence from the Literature
• III.III Has Intervention Been Effective in Emerging Asia?
• III.IV Testing Effectiveness
• III.V Conclusions
• IV.The Evolution of Trade in Emerging Asia
• IV.I Evolving Asian Trade
• IV.II Explaining the Changing Pattern of Trade: The Role of Comparative Advantage
• IV.III The Rise in Intraregional Competition
• IV.IV Summary and Implications
• References
• Boxes
• Tables( click below on Selected Tables, to view Tables relevant to Malaysia)
• Figures

Content:

• Official reserves
• Current Account Balances
• Real GDP growth
• Investment growth
• Private sector inflation forecast
• General Government gross debt
• Central Government fiscal balances
• Crisis-affected countries: nominal exchange rate 1999-2007
• Foreign currency loans
• Nonperforming loans ratio
• Corporate Governance ratings

Content:

• Global Economic Outlook
• Malaysian Economy
• IMF Surveillance
• Strategic Direction of the World Bank Group: Engagement with Middle Income Countries
• Quota and Voice Reform

Content:

• Message from the Hon. Prime Minister
• Foreword from the PEMUDAH Co-Chairs
• Vision Behind the Creation of PEMUDAH
• Snapshot of Improvements in 2007
• Vision and Values of PEMUDAH
• Key Achievements in 2007
• The Way Forward One Service, One Delivery, No Wrong Door
• Annex
• Terms of reference
• Members of PEMUDAH

Content:

• Note
• Preface
• Acknowledgement
• Table of content
• Abbreviations
• Overview
• 1. Widespread growth in FDI
• 1.1 Global trends: sustained growth in FDI flows
• 1.2 Regional trends
• 2. Transnational corporations, extractive industries and development
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Features of the extractive industries
• 2.3 TNCs in extractive industries
• 2.4 Development implications for host countries
• 2.5 The policy challenges
• References
• Annexes
• Annex A
• Definitions and sources
• Annex B
• Selected UNCTAD publications on TNCs and FDI
• Questionnaire

Content:

• Foreign direct investment (FDI) overview
• Cross-border merger and acquisition overview
• Country rankings by Inward FDI Performance Index, Inward FDI Potential Index and Outward FDI Performance Index
• Presence in the world's top 100 non-financial TNCs, ranked by foreign assets
• Presence in the top 100 non-financial TNCs from developing countries, ranked by foreign assets

Content:

• Chapter I. Asian FDI in Africa and Overview
• Chapter II. FDI in and from South-East Asia: Policies, Experience and Relevance for Africa
• Chapter III. Chinese FDI in Africa and Inward FDI in China: Experience and Lessons
• Part Two: Selected African Case Studies
• Conclusions

Content:

• 1.Introduction
• 2. Foreign Economic Growth and the Operations of Multinationals Firms
• 3. Data and descriptive statistics
• 4. The Relationship Between Multinational Foreign and Domestic Activity
• 5. Conclusion

Year 2006

Year 2005

Content:

• Foreword
• Millennium development goals, targets, and indicators
• National setting
• Population trends
• Macroeconomic performance
• MDG 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• MDG 2 Achieve universal primary education
• MDG 3 Promote gender equality and empower women
• MDG 4 Reduce child mortality
• MDG 5 Improve maternal health
• MDG 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
• MDG 7 Ensure environmental sustainability
• MDG 8 Develop a global partnership for development
• Challenges
• Notes and sources

Year 2004

Content:

• I. Uruguay Round Commitments and Achievements
• II. Impact on the Manufacturing Sector
• III. Industrializing under WTO: Future Challenges
• IV. Policy Implications
• V. Conclusions

Year 2002

Content:

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Background Perspective of Malaysian Society
• Major Development Policies in Malaysia 1970-2000
• New Economic Policy 1971-90
• National Development Policy 1991-2000
• Vision 2020
• Poverty Reduction Strategies
• Achievements
• Conclusions
• Bibliography

Content:

• Executive Summary
• Introduction
• The Nature of Water
• Globalization: International Trade in Water
• Privatization of Water
• The Risks of Privatization: Can and Will They Be Managed?
• Principles and Standards for Privatization
• Conclusions
• References

Year 2000

Content:

• Introduction
• I The Globalization Process
• II Key Issues in Trade
• III Key Issues in Finance
• IV Issues in Investment Liberalization
• V General Conclusion and Proposals
• References

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