Adoption of appropriate measures checks economic decline. - The adoption of vigorous recovery plans in East Asia and the Pacific region, along with decisive measures in developed economies to prevent financial meltdown, have checked the decline in activity and seen the regional economy rebound. According to World Bank projections, real GDP growth in developing East Asia is set to slow much more moderately than after the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, to 6.7% (compared with 8% in 2008)....