Bulletin on Asia-Pacific Perspectives 2004/2005: Asia-Pacific Economies: Living with High Oil Prices?

Bulletin on Asia-Pacific Perspectives 2004/2005: Asia-Pacific Economies: Living with High Oil Prices?
I. Global and regional economic developments: implications and prospects for the ESCAP region (Shahid Ahmed, ESCAP secretariat)
II. China’s economic rise: implications for East Asian growth and integration (John Wong)
III. South-East Asia and East Asian community: the nucleus of binding glues (Djisman S. Simandjuntak)
IV. Business process outsourcing: impact and implications (Biswajit Nag)
V. A perspective on entrepreneurship, intellectual property creation, enterprise development and competitiveness in ASEAN (N.V. Lam, ESCAP secretariat)
VI. Food security: a development issue for Pacific island countries (Marin Yari, ESCAP secretariat and Ron Duncan)
VII. Poverty in countries of Central Asia (Amarakoon Bandara, Muhammad Hussain Malik and Eugene Gherman, ESCAP secretariat)