issues affecting current trade flows between the Philippines and the US, and provides background information vital for future …The paper describes the environment under which RP-US Agricultural trade currently operates. It also highlights key …

facilitating the promotion of economic, social and human development. ICTs enable trade in other sectors by enhancing market access … recognized for its significant contribution to a broad variety of activities and economic growth. However, Cambodia is lacking … behind other countries in terms of promoting and facilitating trade of ICT goods with the rest of the world. As compared to …

The last two decades have witnessed a tremendous increase in global trade and investments. This has been followed by a … incentives. This also prompted economies to form or join regional trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties. Like most … developing countries, the Philippines positioned itself for this transition. Investment policies had been revised to create a …

decades, including the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum launched in 1989. Japans commitment to free trade …, reinforced by its own experience of discriminatory trade policies in the immediate postwar period, has made it a strong advocate … of the principle of open regionalism on which APEC is founded. Commitment to this principle has provided the basis for a …

China, and the gradual incorporation of the region into the worldwide economy. In recent years, much of the support for the … the Basin have become active again. With all the nations in the region joining ASEAN except for China, the region has …

We present a theoretical framework for policy making based on the “impossible trinity†or the â …€œtrilemma†hypothesis. A simple optimization model shows that placing more weight in terms of preference for each of the three open …

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as a major player in the global economy and considers free trade … and intermediate goods. Immediately after its accession to the World Trade Organization in December 2001, the PRC adopted … a regional approach to trade and began negotiating and implementing FTAs. This paper analyzes the results of a survey …

as the metrics for the trilemma hypothesis. In our exploration, we take a different and more nuanced approach than the … dissipates in the postcrisis period. Second, there is no evidence for this type of association between deviations from the … suggests that the main cause for the Thai baht crisis was an unsustainable policy mix in the precrisis period, while other …

Some services directly produce outputs that are important for human development, such as basic human services. Many … other services are important inputs into the production and distribution of goods that are necessary for human development … cost effectively and more broadly. In line with this reasoning, we find in the data that less restrictive services trade …

, Korean content does have trade potential. The most important prerequisite for high quality content is the generation of … hinders the sector’s trade potential. Korean motion pictures have benefited greatly from the elimination of government … movie festivals. The trade potential of Korean audiovisual services depends on whether Korean audiovisual services providers …