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Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years … sequence, is there a case for monetary union in East Asia? Is there a case for expanded free-trade areas (FTAs) in the region … Equilibrium (CGE) model, to evaluate the economics of monetary/financial integration and various configurations of FTAs in Asia …
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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...
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The ninth Round of multilateral trade negotiations (MTNs) is to be launched at the end of November 1999 in Seattle. It is essential for the Asian Economies, particularly those that are known to be sucessful exporters, to participate in this Round skillfully because what transpires tin the Rouns...
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The study is being carried out in two phases: the first focusing on a regionwide analysis and the second on an in-depth examination of possible country-specific strategies for ten Asian Developing Countries
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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 …
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of rules to existing FTAs in Asia (both intra- and extra-regional) to guage the degree to which they approach best …
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When debating the pros and cons of economic regionalism, haven't we focused enough on trade in goods at the expense of services? This article argues that regionalism is certainly a building block, not a stumbling block to a multilateral trading system, using the services liberalization scheme of...
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As East Asia becomes increasingly integrated through market-driven trade and FDI activities, free trade agreements … computable general equilibrium (CGE) model examines the economic impact of various types of FTAs in East Asia (among ASEAN+1's …, ASEAN+3, and ASEAN+6) finding that consolidation at the ASEAN+6 level would yield the largest gains to East Asia among …
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