Asian Monetary Integration: Will It Ever Happen?

Author/Editor:

Tharman Shanmugaratnam

Publication Date:

November 14, 2006

Summary:

This paper examines the possibility of Asian monetary integration. The paper highlights that the objectives and motivations behind the continuing debate for Asian monetary integration have now evolved. The objectives are no longer defensive, no longer preoccupied with crisis prevention or resolution. They are now more forward looking; they are about growth, about greater trade integration, about spurring greater cross-border flows of investment within Asia, and about promoting the integration and deepening of financial markets.

Series:

per Jacobson lecture

Subject:

Frequency:

Annual

English

Publication Date:

November 14, 2006

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451980813/0252-3108

Stock No:

PJIEA2006004

Pages:

39

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