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Examines the factors preventing South Korea from attracting greater investment and risk-taking. Political conditions affecting the country's economy; Focus on shareholder value.

Focuses on the victory of the Thai Rak Thai Party headed by Thaksin Shinawarta in the January 6, 2001 national election in Thailand. Support from old-guard politicians; Promise to soften International Monetary Fund measures imposed on the economy; Proposal for the creation of a national asset-management company to take on bank debts.

Opinion. Focuses on the 1997 annual meeting held by the World Bank in Hong Kong. Primary goal of the agency; Need for the bank to go beyond policy prescriptions in its mission to abolish poverty; Need for the bank to exhibit interest in human development.

Opinion. Looks at whether China is able to place the institutions that will encourage international investors to provide the financing needed for the country's modernization. Systematic weaknesses in the country as seen in the country's stock markets; Addition of political risks from the country's control of the important economic data.