, while promoting large portfolio investments is not a proper market policy option due to Pakistan's underdevloped and narrow …

The formation of a Regional Technical Group (RTG) on Aid for Trade for Asia and thePacific was a key recommendation … that emerged from the Aid for Trade Regional Review Meeting at the ADB headquarters in Manila in 2007 and the Global Aid … for Trade Review Meetings at the World Trade Organization in Geneva in 2007 and 2009. Reflecting the principles of country …

.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 …

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 promotes peace. It also suggests that the effect of trade openness varies …

-Korea Free Trade Area (AKFTA) a case in point. This paper qualitatively and quantitatively examines the economic feasibility of …-dimensional analysis provides some, but not overwhelming, support for AKFTA's prospects as an effective means of promoting trade between …

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 …

foreign investments. In the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), countries use national methodologies to assess …

This report summarizes the investments in clean energy made by the operations departments of the Asian Development Bank …