ISAS Insights

America matters to the world. To say that American growth and stability are international public goods, in the sense that they affect everyone around the world, is clich?®d, but true nevertheless. Not just America's external policies, but even its domestic economic policies have a spill-over impact on countries beyond its borders. Virtually every country therefore has a stake in America's economic philosophy and policy; the stakes are even higher for emerging market economies such as those in South Asia whose prospects for growth and welfare are premised on the existence of a benign global economic order. Is it possible that this thought might be on the United States Presidentelect Mr Donald Trump's mind?