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Modernizing Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures to Facilitate Trade in Agricultural and Food Products: Report on the Development of an SPS Plan for the CAREC Countries

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

Cooperation (CAREC) Transport and Trade Facilitation Strategy. Its objective is to identify areas for improvement in the … administration and application of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) regulations, procedures, and standards in the CAREC region. It …

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Economic Corridor Development for Inclusive Asian Regional Integration: Modeling Approach to Economic Corridors

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

The question underlying the entirety of this publication is: “How can viable economic corridors be called into existence by dint of government and multilateral support?” The authors answer this question by examining the experience of economic corridor development of different regions from...

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CAREC Transport and Trade Facilitation Strategy 2020

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program is a practical, projectbased, and results …-oriented partnership that promotes and facilitates regional cooperation in transport, trade, and energy. CAREC comprises 10 countries …, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Six multilateral institution partners support the work of the CAREC member ountries: the Asian …

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Georgia: Transport Sector Assessment, Strategy, and Road Map

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is preparing sector assessments and road maps to help align future ADB support with the needs and strategies of eveloping member countries and other development partners. The transport sector assessment of Georgia is a working document that helps inform the...

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Regional Cooperation and Integration: Experiences in Asia and the Pacific

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

Over the past 2 decades, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and its developing member countries have worked together to promote regional cooperation and integration (RCI). Evolving economic conditions continually pose new challenges to RCI efforts. In March 2012, about 160 representatives from...

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Three decades of international financial crises : what have we learned and what still needs to be done?

Buckley, Ross P.; Avgouleas, Emilios; Arner, Douglas W. - Asian Development Bank - 2020

Fragility that periodically erupts into a full-blown financial crisis appears to be an integral feature of market-based financial systems in spite of the emergence of sophisticated risk management tools and regulatory systems. If anything, the increased frequency of modern crises underscores how...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Toward win-win regionalism in Asia : issues and challenges in forming efficient trade agreements

Plummer, Michael G. - 2006

Many economists tend to be skeptical of the merits of Free-Trade Areas (FTAs) due to their second-best nature, while others support them under certain conditions, particularly as they allow for a more comprehensive treatment of trade- and investment-related issues than is currently possible...

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