Upbeat economic data from Singapore and Australia added to investor confidence in the region.
This year an academic's essay cast doubt on Asia's economic miracle, pricking any unquestioning confidence in the region's prospects.
In a separate meeting Tuesday, Napolitano and Washington-area leaders expressed confidence in the region's planning for the H1N1 virus.
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However, this ignores the huge boost that China's rebound is giving to business and consumer confidence across the region.
The first step is to shore up confidence in the region's banks by making sure they have enough capital to withstand a crisis.
This stems from sustained consumer confidence in that region and increased investment by the company in its brands (known as Maisons) and distribution networks.
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Since a devaluation of Thailand's currency, the baht, in July, undermined confidence in the region as a whole, Indonesia's rupiah has lost a third of its value.
" The bottom line, says James Schiro, CEO of the multinational accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, is that improving corporate management "is a way to deal with the growing crisis of confidence in the region and globally.
Such a retreat from reform would only damage confidence and cost the region much-needed foreign investment.
Dehqan's statement is indicative of the mullahs' confidence in the direction the region is taking.
Progress is the region depends on confidence, courage and mutually reinforcing initiatives.
In the Philippines, the overseas armies of construction workers, maids and managers whose remittances supply much of the country's foreign exchange are hanging on to their dollars in the hope that they will yield more pesos tomorrow a graphic demonstration of the loss of confidence which afflicts the entire region.
But China's growing power and confidence are sending ripples across the region.
Styria's governor, Waltraud Klasnic, a member of the People's Party, said her party's victory was a vote of confidence for the conservatives' policies in the region.
Roach is no newcomer to Asia either, and his interactions with Chinese and other contacts obviously give the giant firm confidence he can drum up business in the region.
This approach respects diversity in the region, while promoting mutual understanding, confidence, and transparency.
Although some onlookers worry that the lack of firm proposals will hurt confidence, the initiatives themselves matter little to the region's prospects of recovery.
However, Humphreys said he and Holley have the confidence of elite performance director Andrew Hore and the region's directors going into the new season.
There are many business leaders from the sub continent here in Davos this year and I have been struck by the thoughtfulness, pragmatism and underlying levels of confidence in the medium-term prospects for the region.
Sweeney's conversion reduced the deficit to four points as the Welsh region threatened a remarkable comeback, with Perpignan short of confidence following a losing start to the French Championship campaign.
Fighting continues in the region despite the JEM and local government signing a "goodwill and confidence-building" agreement earlier in February, according to the U.N.
Germany, the eurozone's biggest economy, saw one of the sharpest declines in the region, with its economic index worsening by 2.3 points, while confidence in Italy fell by 1.9 points.
This will increase the confidence level in Asia, and we should start to see flows of funds back into the region.
What the food industry has learned in the process is that it not only gives consumers the confidence to buy, but also builds customer loyalty and trust in a particular brand, a region and even an individual producer.
Welcoming Mr Fisk to the campus, Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Barnett, said the journalist blended the sure-footed confidence of a veteran foreign correspondent "with the scholarship of one who understands the history of the region and its peoples".
The FBI believes with a high degree of confidence that in the years after the theft, the art was transported to Connecticut and the Philadelphia region, and some of the art was taken to Philadelphia, where it was offered for sale by those responsible for the theft.
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The important point about Dexia is that its current difficulties tend to undermine confidence in the famous European stress tests, the recently completed Europe-wide process of verifying that the region's banks are tickety boo.
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