… As long as the structural problems on the supply side of capital are not addressed, the East Asian countries will remain as vulnerable to future crises as they were before.
These include: maintaining a sound macroeconomic environment, developing our regulatory framework, and enhancing the role of the Bahrain Stock Exchange. Although we may now be entering the down-swing of the global business cycle, there will, I am sure, be many investment opportunities that will continue to arise in the region.