Asia Pacific
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Restoring people’s faith in government is key to rescuing a failed state -
A warning that India’s credit rating could soon be downgraded is a much-needed shot across the bows for the government, a top central banker warned in an interview with Emerging Markets
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Beijing is poised to open up its bond market to foreign investors and to embrace the use of derivatives, China’s deputy finance minister revealed on Friday
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The US will fail to tackle an exploding fiscal deficit this year, S&P president Douglas Peterson has told Emerging Markets, in a sharp reminder that the world’s biggest economy could face another downgrade within 18 months
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Asia’s freshly enhanced financial safety net is an Asian Monetary Fund in all but name, a leading Asian policymaker declared on Friday
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The western sovereign debt crisis will present challenges to Asian investment for years to come, experts warned in Manila on Friday
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Nations should adopt flexible exchange rates to help cushion the impact of financial crises, according to Thailand’s finance minister
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Recent attempts to resolve a diplomatic dispute between China and the Philippines have failed but all is not lost, one of Philippines’ most senior officials has said
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Mistakes made by microfinance institutions in India and elsewhere serve as valuable lessons to China as it seeks ways to provide basic financial services to millions of its poor
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Finance executives cheered plans by Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul to buy each other’s bonds as another possible step towards internationalizing China’s currency
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The Philippines’ finance minister Cesar Purisima told Emerging Markets his country is looking to capital markets to help finance its infrastructure funding needs
