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The organizational architecture of the Asia-Pacific : insights from the new institutionalism
Haggard, Stephan - 2011
This paper surveys recent literature on the design of international institutions and applies the insights from it to the prospects for regional economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific. The political and economic heterogeneity of the region has served the process of regional economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281461
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Asia's strategic participation in the Group of 20 for global economic governance reform : from the perspective of international trade
Bark, Taeho - 2011
After considering the background to the G20 summit meetings after the recent global economic and financial crisis, this paper aims to identify the trade agenda that represents Asia's concerns for the global and regional trading system. Asia, in particular East Asia, has played an important role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281462
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Managing the noodle bowl : the fragility of East Asian regionalism
Baldwin, Richard E. - 2007
The paper argues that East Asian regionalism is fragile because (i) each nation's industrial competitiveness depends on 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281488
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Economic integration in East Asia : trends, prospects, and a possible roadmap
Rana, Pradumna Bickram - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281500
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Economic corridor development in Pakistan : concept, framework, and case studies
Asian Development Bank - 2022
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US international trade and the global economic crisis
James, William E. - 2009
World trade volume is in retreat for the first time in more than two decades and the contraction is on a scale not seen … trade with the rest of the world. Moreover, US imports that avail of preferential tariff treatment are also contracting more … to strangle world trade. The failure of bilateral free trade agreements to act as a shock absorber suggests that a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003913740
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Does trade integration contribute to peace?
Lee, Jong-Wha - 2009
This paper investigates the effect of trade integration on military conflict. Our empirical analysis,based on a large panel data set of 290,040 country-pair observations from 1950 to 2000, confirms that an increase in bilateral trade interdependence and global trade openness significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529705
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The post-crisis sequencing of economic integration in Asia : trade as a complement to a monetary future
Plummer, Michael G. - 2007
Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years.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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281489
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Reshaping global economic governance and the role of Asia in the Group of Twenty (G20)
2011
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Trade and investment
2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001804162