The measures put in place by governments to support their banking sectors and economies have helped to avert a full-scale financial meltdown and a 1930s-style economic depression. But the full costs...

The global crisis has driven home the need for Asia to do more to expand domestic demand. But in every part of Asia there are frictions which mean the necessary policy shift will be drawn out. As a...

World trade is picking up again, confirming that another aspect of the global financial and economic crisis is now behind us. But this adds little to what we already know from the signs of recovery in...