Mumbai, March 5 -- IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva at the Asia in 2050 Conference in Bangkok, highlighted the past successes of Asian economies. She noted that the last quarter century has been Asia's golden hour. A region that, back in the year 2000, was still shaking off the pain of a financial crisis and went on to build new policy frameworks; new systems of financial sector oversight; official reserves; and above all, trust. There has been progress on a vast scale. Financial stability. Low inflation. FDI, technology upgrades, and trade. Record-breaking, private sector-led growth. Jobs. Poverty reduction as never seen before, with China and India in particular lifting hundreds of millions of people out of subsistence, she note...