.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 …

interdependence and global trade openness significantly promotes peace. It also suggests that the effect of trade openness varies … in global trade openness reduces the probability of conflict more for countries far apart from each other than it does …This paper investigates the effect of trade integration on military conflict. Our empirical analysis,based on a large …

The development process can advance more rapidly than ever before in the new global economy. While opening their … economies to trade and investment is a necessary condition for developing countries to achieve sustained high growth and reduce … developing countries' efforts to fully exploit the benefits of open trade and investment. The key objective of this report is to …

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

As East Asia becomes increasingly integrated through market-driven trade and FDI activities, free trade agreements … participation of low-income countries and reduce trade-related business costs, particularly for small and medium enterprises. A … plausible regional trade arrangements. …

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 …