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Is technical assistance under free trade agreements WTO-plus? : a review of Japan-ASEAN economic partnership agreements

Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2011

What kind of technical assistance and capacity building benefits do developing countries enjoy if they sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with developed countries? This is a frequently asked question among developing country officials involved in FTA policymaking. While we tend to normatively...

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A new multi-dimensional framework for analyzing regional integration : Regional Integration Evaluation (RIE) methodology

Park, Donghyun; Estrada, Mario Arturo Ruiz - 2010

Theories of regional integration typically analyze the regional integration process from the perspective of a single discipline, usually economics. However, such one-dimensional analytical frameworks cannot fully capture the richness and complexity of the inherently multi-dimensional regional...

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Evolving Asian power balances and alternate conceptions for building regional institutions

Wang, Yong - 2010

) ASEAN's efforts at regional cooperation, the (iv) the PRC–Japan rivalry. The author concludes that economic interdependence …

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Measuring commodity-level trade costs in Asia : the basis for effective trade facilitation policies in the region

Yamanaka, Shintarō; Domingo, Romana - 2012

overuse data from the World Bank’s Doing Business Report, despite the fact that data on costs to export and import under its …

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Trans-pacific partnership versus Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership : control of membership and agenda setting

Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2014

This paper argues that the formation of regional integration frameworks can be best understood as a dominant state's attempt to create a preferred regional framework in which it can exercise exclusive influence. In this context, it is important to observe not only which countries are included in...

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Institutional parameters of a region-wide economic agreement in Asia : examination of Trans-Pacific Partnership and ASEAN+α Free Trade Agreement approaches

Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2010

The future creation of a region-wide economic agreement in Asia has become the hot issue among trade policymakers in the region. The APEC 2010 Summit Statement clearly states that the members should pursue a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP), building on various ongoing regional...

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Critical review of East Asia – South America trade

Yamanaka, Shintarō; Tafgar, Aiken - 2013

There is a general consensus that trade between East Asia and South America is becoming increasingly important. However, we know little about the actual dynamic development of this inter-regional trade. This paper examines whether the trend of East Asia-South America trade is a general phenomena...

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Cross-regional comparison of trade integration : the case of services

Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2013

In this paper, we will examine the level of services trade integration in Asia in comparison with Europe and North America. The main empirical findings of this paper are that (i) the regional bias of services trade in Asia is as high or higher than in Europe and North America; (ii) in Asia, the...

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Japan's education services imports : branch campus or subsidiary campus?

Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2012

. In the case of Japan, foreign universities are/were free to open campuses in Japan to supply tertiary education services … Japan established by foreign universities to supply formal education services in Japan, they are required to satisfy the … Japan actually obtained a formal school status. Moreover, program at the campuses in Japan were not regarded as an …

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