This December 2011 edition of the Pacific Economic Monitor examines 2011 budget outcomes and 2012 budget plans in ADB's Pacific developing member countries.

Its contents include:

·     Highlights
·     The Economic Setting
·     Economic Conditions
      - Pacific Islands
      - Papua New Guinea
      - Timor-Leste
·     Economic Policy and Management
      - Sovereign Investment Funds in the Pacific: Impact of Recent Global Economic Developments
      - Interest Rates and Bank Profitability in the Pacific
      - Global Uncertainties and Credit Quality in Selected Pacific Countries
      - Bond Market Development in Papua New Guinea Timor-Leste's Inflation Challenge
      - Timor-Leste's Inflation Challenge

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