21.  A recent boom in commodity prices should allow developing countries to improve their fiscal positions before the inevitable bust that will follow, the World Bank said Wednesday.

22.  The government is selling state-run and-controlled assets to shore up its fiscal position and scrap costly subsidies.

23.  The government is selling state-run and -controlled assets to shore up its fiscal position and scrap costly subsidies.

24.  The improved fiscal position and sounder policies should help South Korea fend off external disruption, whether from Japan or elsewhere, it said.