Asia and Policymaking for the Global Economy
By (Author) Kemal Dervis
Edited by Masahiro Kawai
Edited by Domenico Lombardi
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Brookings Institution
14th April 2011
United States
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
337
Paperback
200
Width 153mm, Height 228mm, Spine 15mm
313g
In this concise volume, eminent international economists examine the changing role of the G-20 and the increased influence of Asian nations in that and relevant multilateral organizations such as the International Monetary Fund. Kemal Dervis investigates whether the G-20 will achieve a satisfactory degree of coordination among systemically important countries and what lessons can be drawn in this regard from the crisis.
Kemal Dervi is vice president and director of Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution. He has served as executive head of the UN Development Program and as Turkey's minister of economic affairs.Masahiro Kawai is dean and CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute. He has also been deputy vice minister of finance for international affairs in Japan and a professor at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Social Science. Domenico Lombardi is president of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is also editor of the World Economics journal.