Some sectors of the economy, one of the poorest in Asia, remain off-limits to foreign ownership, including fishing and farming.
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With a slew of China's April economic data, especially key Manufacturing figures, undershooting market expectations, investors fretted over the state of Asia's biggest economy, while discounting any chances of immediate monetary easing from Beijing amid rising inflationary pressure.
But some of the forces lifting the agriculture economy today are powerful, such as the strength of Asia's appetite for commodities.
If GDP is instead measured at purchasing-power parity (PPP) to take account of these lower prices, Asia's share of the world economy has risen more steadily, from 18% in 1980 to 27% in 1995 and 34% in 2009.
Depressed markets have had a ripple effect across different parts of Asia's economy.
The only benefit to the slowing economy for the big emerging markets of Asia is that commodity prices will decline.
Now, in the wake of our own financial crisis, a globalizing economy with large banks throughout Europe, Asia and the rest of the world, do we want to hinder the competitive advantage of U.S. firms and reduce the reach of our regulators?
The Disney park is a major plank in the government's efforts to further push tourism as a pillar of the economy, as it would attract visitors from China and many parts of Asia.
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Chinese stocks moved higher on Friday, at the end of a week that included several slices of local economic news including above-view trade data, which gave the market some reassurance over the state of Asia's largest economy.
Mahathir's policy of isolationism, in what used to be Asia's most internationalized manufacturing economy, is nothing short of a disaster.
Receiving Forbes at the presidential offices in Jakarta on Nov. 8, Yudhoyono tempered his resolve for further liberalization of Southeast Asia's cornerstone economy with frequent nods to popular anxieties.
That could finally create some excitement and encourage the market to believe the U.S. economy, if not those of Europe and parts of Asia, is still in sustainable recovery mode.
With luck, a sharp second-quarter slowdown will lead to a calmer economy in the second half of the year as the Asia effect continues to bite and domestic demand slows.
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The data is important because it will give investors a chance to view the pace of recovery in Asia's largest economy, though the numbers for February could be seasonally-influenced by the month the Lunar New Year fell in this year.
"High-grade, government-owned corporates with strategic assets in the largest economy in Asia remain popular with investors globally, " said Duncan Phillips, co-head of debt syndicate in Asia ex-Japan at Citigroup Inc.
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"High-grade, government-owned corporates with strategic assets in the largest economy in Asia remain popular with investors globally, " said Duncan Phillips, co-head of debt syndication in Asia excluding Japan at Citigroup Inc.
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The last set of economic numbers to come out of China gave a mixed picture of the recovery in Asia's largest economy.
Thailand's economy is now one of the slowest-growing in booming Asia.
The last set of economic numbers to come out of China gave a mixed picture of the recovery in Asia's largest economy, adding to concerns that the government could become stricter on the property market in response to a pickup in house prices.
Along with being the world's largest economy, the US also is a key market for most of Asia's export-dependent economies.
Asia's largest economy is a major importer of Australia's natural resources.
Also on the mind of investors was China's forthcoming preliminary manufacturing data, out on Tuesday, which will be the first chunk of April economic news for Asia's largest economy.
The other market in focus on Monday was China, ahead of Tuesday's release of China's preliminary manufacturing data, which will be the first chunk of April economic news for Asia's largest economy.
However he sees Japan's return to the top in 2012 as simply "going back to the natural order of things" after Asia's second largest economy was devastated by the 2011 quake and tsunami.
The government often cites the importance of their works to boost Asia's fourth largest economy.
By this gauge, Asia's economy will probably exceed the combined sum of America's and Europe's within four years.
He places only marginal emphasis on the hit U.S. companies and the domestic economy will take directly from the depressed levels of business activity in struggling Asia.
The ten ASEAN countries, stretching across the Indian and Pacific Oceans, have a population of over 600 million and combined are the third largest economy in Asia.
That concern is especially pronounced in Northeast Asia, the industrial heartland of the new global economy, because countries like China can afford to buy the latest military hardware.
Correspondents say he has presented an increasing challenge for the Indian government on dealing with corruption in Asia's third largest economy, where a series of recent high-profile scandals have tarnished the government's image.
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