1. The development of input trade and production networks in east Asia / Daisuke Hiratsuka and Yoko Uchida -- 2. Vertical Specialization : some evidence from east Asia from 1975 to 2000 / David Hummels and Yoko Uchida -- 3. Some evidence on the nature and growth of input trade / David Hummels...

Against the background of closer diplomatic, political and security ties between Myanmar and China since 1988, their economic relations have also grown stronger throughout the 1990s and up to 2005. China is now a major supplier of consumer and capital goods to Myanmar, in particular through...

This paper aims to explain the historical development of Australia's foreign economic policy by using an analytical framework called a 'state-society coalition' approach. This approach focuses on virtual coalitions of state and society actors that share 'belief systems' and hold similar policy...

In the wake of economic globalization and development in Thailand, movement of people and commodities at the Thai borders is also becoming pronounced. Economic interdependence between Thailand and neighboring countries is growing through border customhouses. As a policy, Thailand is trying to...