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Rapid globalisation has brought substantial benefits to developing Asia, but it has also heightened the risks associated with policy mistakes, weak financial institutions, and problems in corporate and public governance. The 1997 Asian crisis has demonstrated the urgent need to rethink the sequencing and comprehensiveness of financial liberalisation. Would further opening of Asia's financial systems be helpful or counterproductive in fostering financial stability? What structural reforms do emerging economies need to undertake to ensure that capital inflows are transformed into productive investment? Which regulatory and other requirements would have to be attached to further financial liberalisation? And what role should international organisations and the private sector play in crisis resolution?
This volume seeks to provide answers to these questions by discussing the roots of the Asian financial crisis and suggesting some constructive approaches to crisis resolution. It was produced jointly by the Asian Development Bank and OECD Development Centre based on their fourth joint annual Forum on Asian Perspectives.

Disasters present a broad range of human, social, financial, economic and environmental impacts, with potentially long-lasting, multi-generational effects. The financial management of these impacts is a key challenge for individuals and governments in developed and developing countries. G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors and APEC Finance Ministers have recognised the importance and priority of disaster risk management strategies and, in particular, disaster risk assessment and risk financing. The OECD has supported the development of strategies for the financial management of natural and man-made disaster risks, under the guidance of the OECD High-Level Advisory Board on Financial Management of Large-scale Catastrophes and the OECD Insurance and Private Pensions Committee. This work has included the elaboration of an OECD Recommendation on Good Practices for Mitigating and Financing Catastrophic Risks and a draft Recommendation on Disaster Risk Financing Strategies  The Financial Management of Flood Risk extends this work by applying the lessons from the OECD’s analysis of disaster risk financing practices and the development of its guidance to the specific case of floods.

This report, prepared at the request of Deputies of the G10, reviews economic consequences of ageing populations for financial markets and recommends that a) governments help facilitate development of financial instruments to support retirement savings and pensions; b) governments strengthen regulation and supervision of these markets; c) tax rules should not hinder the build-up of financial buffers by private pension funds, but should avoid the abuse of tax deferrals; and  d) financial education needs to be strengthened.

OECD's three-times-yearly analysis of trends and developments in national and international financial markets. This issue's special feature covers recent trends in privatisation.

OECD's three-time-yearly report on financial markets in its Member countries. This issue's special report focuses on recent trends in foreign direct investment. There are also some new statistics on institutional investment in OECD countries.

Financial Market Trends provides, three times each year, an assessment of trends and prospects in the international and major domestic financial markets of the OECD area. Each issue includes comprehensive commentary, statistics, and graphs on current developments in internationally syndicated medium-term euro-credits, other international bank lending, euro-bonds and traditional foreign bond issues, and a review of monetary and financial trends in major OECD Member countries. This issue's special features cover the Impact of Institutional Investors on OECD Financial Markets and the annual report of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering.

OECD's Journal on financial markets. In addition to the usuual survery of recent developments, this issue includes chapters on shareholder value and the market in corporate control and on the new banking landscape in Central and Eastern Europe.

OECD's journal on international financial markets. In addition to it's assessment of recent developments, this issue includes article on ageing populations, trends in FDI, the development of securities markets in transition economies, and structural and regulatory developments.

OECD's journal on international financial markets. This issue includes articles on recent developments, structural and regulatory developments, financial market implications of ageing populations, financial security of private pension systems, development of capital markets in Asia, and FDI.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to the analysis of recent trends, this issue includes articles on challenges for the euro area, reforming the Korean banking system, shrinking a government bond market, and privatisation trends.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to the report on recent developments in financial markets, this issue includes articles on highly leveraged investors, corporate governance, interest rate swaps and debt management in Denmark, and more.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to its regular assessment of recent development, this issue includes articles on securitisation, fixed-income securities markets, international insurance operations, tax distortions to cross-border portfolio investment, and more.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to the analysis of recent developments, this issue includes a feature on government debt management and articles on trade in financial services, regulation of investments by insurance companies and pension funds, mergers and acquisitions and more.

OECD's journal on financial markets. This issue featues articles on recent trends in financial markets, privatisation trends, international financial contagion, and main changes in the financial structure of the Euro Zone. It also features institutional investors and insurance data.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to the usual assessment of recent trends, this issue includes a special focus on Offshore Financial Practices, Non-Co-operative Jurisdictions and Harmful Tax Practices as well as an article on FDI in China.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to reviewing recent trends, this issue includes articles on prospects for national capital markets, government systems for collective investment schemes, moral hazard, and new financial statistics.

OECD's journal on financial markets. In addition to rerporting on recent trends, this issue includes articles on the contribution of the financial sector to sustainable development, private occupational pension schemes, investment in Russia, recent privatisation trends and insurance statistics.

OECD's journal on financial markets. This issue focuses on institutional investors but also has articles on pension systems and portfolio regulation of life insurance.

OECD governments pay out around USD 6 billion a year to support the fisheries sector. Some of this expenditure is provided to help ensure the effective management of fisheries through the provision of research, administrative and enforcement services. However, its effects on economic profitability and resource sustainability are open to debate. Such support has often been linked to over-fishing and over-capitalisation, and its reform may lead to improved economic, environmental and social outcomes. This report analyses the impacts of such transfers from a sustainable development perspective by addressing the economic, environmental and social dimensions of financial transfers. Through this innovative focus, this study will deepen policy makers’ understanding of the complex issues at play in the fisheries sector — a sector that is characterised by ongoing concerns regarding economic profitability, community resilience, and resource sustainability.