The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) is a forum for discussion and debate of important policy issues facing developing countries. The conferences emphasize the contribution...
Some lessons from the East Asian Miracle, by Joseph E. Stiglitz. In search of owners: privatization and corporate governance in transition economies, by Cheryl W. Gray. How well can method substitute for...
The success of policy-based credit programs in Japan and the Republic of Korea suggests that credit policy can be an effective instrument for economic development. Why, then, have credit policies failed...
This is the twelfth in the annual series assessing major development issues. Economic growth rates among the developing countries have varied considerably. The external environment has had an adverse impact...
This is the twelfth in the annual series assessing major development issues. Economic growth rates among the developing countries have varied considerably. The external environment has had an adverse impact...
This paper provides an empirical examination of financial liberalization in five Asian countries: Korea, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, which have been relatively successful, the Philippines, which has not done...
This is the twelfth in the annual series assessing major development issues. Economic growth rates among the developing countries have varied considerably. The external environment has had an adverse impact...
This is the twelfth in the annual series assessing major development issues. Economic growth rates among the developing countries have varied considerably. The external environment has had an adverse impact...
This article examines the recent dispute between the United States and the Republic of Korea over the opening of Korea's insurance market to U.S. companies. The article assesses the interests and motivations...
This paper studies a recent case of US-Korea disputes on the opening of the Korean insurance market. The case is interesting for several reasons. It occurs at a time when the US has been pressing hard...
This paper investigates the effects of financial liberalization on the financial sector development and the allocative aspects of credit in Korea. The paper finds that since 1980, the financial sector...