Providing support to strengthen the foundations for economic growth  Following the implementation of the above measures, in June 2010 the Bank introduced a new fund-provisioning framework, the “Fund-Provisioning Measure to Support Strengthening the Foundations for Economic Growth.” Given the decline in the economic growth trend mentioned earlier, the Bank established the new framework in order to play its part in  10  Previously, it was widely thought that international bond markets were segmented, and therefore bond yields – at least in the short run – tended to follow idiosyncratic country factors.
However, analysis by the Bank published in the February 2011 issue of the Financial Markets Report has shown that it is highly likely that government bond yields across countries are linked as a result of common risk perceptions among global bond investors. Please refer to pp.