"This book assembles papers that were produced under a three year collaborative research program on 'China and APEC' undertaken by the AustraliaJapan Research Centre, in the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management at The Australian National University and the APEC Policy Research Center,...

APEC leaders can take pride in progress towards free and open trade. There will always be more to do to integrate Asia Pacific economies. 2010 is the time to look beyond border barriers to trade and adopt a new post-Bogor vision of a single market. Traditional border barriers to trade in some...

Very many goods and services are traded freely among most economies. The recent proliferation of preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) demonstrates that most economies are willing to eliminate border barriers against substantially all products from almost any other economy. At the same time,...

Books reviewed in this article: Gordon Fletcher, Understanding Dennis Robertson: The Man and His Work Robert G. Chambers and John Quiggin, Uncertainty, Production, Choice, and Agency John Ravenhill, APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism Stephan Boehm, Christian Gehrke, Heinz D....

Since 1999, there has been a sharp rise of interest in new subregional trading arrangements (SRTAs) involving APEC economies. Many, if not most, of the emerging new economic partnerships are expected to be based on a preferential free trade area (FTA). These arrangements are likely to divert...