Two-thirds of the world's poor live in Asia. The major objective for the region, therefore, must be to reduce poverty …-poor growth alone. At the same time, it is also clear that official aid flows throughout the world, and particularly in Asia, have … on Asian Perspectives, held in Paris in July 2000. Sustainable Recovery in Asia: Mobilising Resources for Development …

"regionalism cycle." The institutional outcome of regionalism in Asia has been cyclical because the game played by Japan and the …Despite a commonplace view that Asian regionalism lacks institutions, Asia, in fact, is full of regional institutions … and frameworks in various forms. The rise and fall of regional institutions in Asia is an extremely dynamic process. Using …

regionalist projects in Asia throughout the 1990s. As they demonstrate, Asian countries, especially Japan, have held a strong … desire to establish an Asia-only regional cooperation framework at least since the early 1990s. The basic policy stance of …

the smooth functioning of "Factory Asia" - in particular for intraregional trade; (ii) the unilateral tariff-cutting that … created Factory Asia is not subject to WTO discipline (bindings); (iii) there is no "top-level management"; to substitute for … WTO discipline, to ensure that bilateral trade tensions - tensions that are inevitable in East Asia - do not spill over …