Overview

Asia Pacific countries are mounting wide-ranging efforts to mitigate the impact of the global financial crisis and to adapt their growth models to new economic realities.  This project will assess the region’s progress in fighting recession, rebalancing economic structures, and managing the transition to a new, sustained growth path. It will anticipate the critical policy changes that will be required in the Asia Pacific to move from crisis management to stable growth, and explore important potential growth engines—ranging from regional integration to social policies and the environment—that can drive the region’s future development. The study will pay close attention to the role of regional linkages and cooperation in achieving a timely recovery.

The study will be released in the fall of 2009 with sections addressing: (a) new, sustainable growth models for the Asia Pacific, (b) progress by individual economies toward those models, and (c) the role of regional economic relations during the crisis and in facilitating recovery.

The research will build on data and forecasts developed by several institutions and will focus on analysis and synthesis rather than primary data collection.

Project Team

• Professor Peter A. PETRI (Coodinator, US)
  Brandeis University and East-West Center

• Professor Yongfu CAO (China)
  Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Visiting Scholar, Brandeis University

• Professor Wendy DOBSON (Canada)
  University of Toronto

• Professor Yiping HUANG (China)
  Peking University and Australian National University

• Professor Michael PLUMMER (US)
  Johns Hopkins University (SAIS Bologna Center) and East-West Center

• Professor Raimundo SOTO (Chile)
  Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

• Professor Shinji TAKAGI (Japan)
  Osaka University

Advisory Panel

• Dr CHIA Siow Yue (Singapore)
• Prof Barry EICHENGREEN (US)
• Prof Christopher FINDLAY (Australia)
• Amb Jonathan FRIED (Canada)
• Dr Masahiro KAWAI (Japan, ADBI)
• Dr Jong-Wha LEE (Korea, ADB)
• Dr Yung Chul PARK (Korea)
• Prof Hugh PATRICK (US)
• Mr Andrew SHENG (Malaysia)
• Prof Robert SCOLLAY (New Zealand)
• Dr Chalongphob SUSSANGKARN (Thailand)
• Dr Shujiro URATA (Japan)
• Dr Joseph YAP (Philippines)
• Dr Yunling ZHANG (China)

 Events

"Global Financial and Economic Crisis: Macreconomic Policy Issues"

Date and time
28-29 July 2009

Venue
Asian Development Bank Institute
Kasumigaseki Building 8F
3-2-5, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo               100-6008       , Japan
Tel:             + 81-3-3593-5500              
Fax: +81-3-3593-5571