The global economic crisis in 2008-2009 had varying impacts on economies in Asia and the Pacific. This paper studies … the impacts of the global crisis, with emphasis on the labor market, on three Asian countries: Republic of Korea (Korea … product, Korea suffered the worst in reduced employment, and Philippines' output was affected only in 2009. In the labor …

Expanding trade with East Asia’s "Big Three" economic giants - the People's Republic of China (PRC), Japan, and the … Republic of Korea - offers a new potential source of growth for ASEAN in the post-global-crisis period. In fact, ASEAN has been … quantitatively assess the different permutations of ASEAN’s free trade agreements (FTAs) with the Big Three (e.g., ASEAN-PRC, ASEAN-Japan …