The second APEC Economic Outlook Symposium took place on 16 & 17 May 1998 in Xiamen City, Fujian Province, China. This volume provides a summary of the discussions that took place at Xiamen and makes available to a wider audience the papers and contributions made by expert speakers who gathered there.

• Foreword
• Introduction and Overview
• Part 1: Impacts of the Financial Crisis and Measures to Restore Economic Growth
• Part 2: Knowledge, Technology, and Economic Growth
• Part 3: The Financial Crisis: Implications for Economic Research