Strategies for Structural Adjustment: The Experience of Southeast Asia, papers presented at a seminar held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 28-July 1, 1989International Monetary Fund, 1990 M03 15 - 214 pages This collection of papers delivered at a seminar, moderated by Ungku A. Aziz, in Kuala Lumpur addresses issues of economic and structural adjustment and trade and exchange rate policies in Southeast Asia. |
Contents
Opening Address | 12 |
Comment by Tan Tat Wai | 39 |
The Role of Fiscal and Monetary Policy in The Growth | 45 |
Trade Policy as a Strategy for Structural Adjustment | 72 |
Comment by Mohamed Ariff Abdul Kareem | 95 |
Export Volatility and Stabilization in Malaysia | 130 |
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adjustment programs agricultural sector ASEAN ASEAN-4 Asia average balance of payments Bangladesh Bank Negara Malaysia capital controls commodity prices competitive current account debt decline deficit depreciation developing countries distortions domestic saving East Asian economic growth exchange rate policies expenditure export instability fiscal and monetary fiscal policy foreign exchange four countries Fund-supported gross investment growth rates Hong Kong import substitution incentives income increase Indicators Indonesia industrial countries inflation interest rates International Financial Statistics International Monetary Fund investors Korea liberalization macroeconomic Malaysia manufactured exports manufacturing sector measures ment monetary policy newly industrializing economies oil prices output overvalued paper percent of GDP percentage period Philippines primary commodities production Province of China public enterprises public sector ratio reduced resource gap restrictions role seminar share Singapore Source South Asian countries Southeast Asian stability strategy structural adjustment Table Taiwan Province tariff Thailand U.S. dollars World Bank