What can further market integration contribute to growth and employment? A series of hypothetical trade reform … scenarios explores what countries at different levels of development can expect to gain from reforming tariffs, non …-tariff barriers, trade facilitation and domestic support to agriculture. Simulations of multilateral and regional trade agreements …

.These accords span the real and financial sectors; rather than following the more typical pattern of "trade first,money later …", recent policy initiatives involve the simultaneous implementation of trade and monetary/financial accords. Given this … sequence, is there a case for monetary union in East Asia? Is there a case for expanded free-trade areas (FTAs) in the region …

(COVID-19) pandemic across SIDS; (ii) provides an overview of the support delivered by development co-operation providers to …

the smooth functioning of "Factory Asia" - in particular for intraregional trade; (ii) the unilateral tariff-cutting that … WTO discipline, to ensure that bilateral trade tensions - tensions that are inevitable in East Asia - do not spill over …

This paper reviews trends in East Asian regionalism in the areas of trade and investment, money and finance, and … infrastructure. It presents various measures of trade and financial integration. An important finding of the paper is that increasing … trade and financial integration in the region is now starting to lead to a synchronization of business cycles in a selected …

Many economists tend to be skeptical of the merits of Free-Trade Areas (FTAs) due to their second-best nature, while … others support them under certain conditions, particularly as they allow for a more comprehensive treatment of trade- and …

Expanding trade with East Asia’s "Big Three" economic giants - the People's Republic of China (PRC), Japan, and the … actively pursuing trade liberalization with the Big Three. The central objective of this paper is to qualitatively and … quantitatively assess the different permutations of ASEAN’s free trade agreements (FTAs) with the Big Three (e.g., ASEAN-PRC, ASEAN …