labor in Asia and the Pacific has stagnated in recent years even as the flow of goods, services, and investment have …

Trade in food and other agricultural products is increasingly important across East and Southeast Asia, where high … agricultural capacity elsewhere. Because low-income Southeast Asia is generally seen to be well below its agrofood potential, this …. This paper reviews the history of high-income Asia and the PRC's emergence in the region's agrofood markets. Finally, the …

market on trade growth in the regions of Africa and Asia. An exclusive comparison of trade performance of the two regions …

comparison of Asia's regional integration performance with those of other regions of the world. As a second step, the constructed … indicator of regional integration outcomes is used as the output variable in a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate Asia …

"Although a latecomer, economically important Asia has emerged at the forefront of global free trade agreement (FTA … encourage a regionwide FTA. Political economy considerations suggest that a likely scenario is for FTA consolidation in Asia …

medical goods-vaccines and their value chains, personal protective equipment, and diagnostic test kits-across 29 Asia and the …

The issue of decoupling is controversial. On the back of Asia's sustained high growth, the hypothesis that the region …'s business cycles would become increasingly independent of the global trend gained considerable attention. Asia was nonetheless … of macroeconomic interdependence between emerging East Asia and Group of 3 economies. First, the progress of regional …

We develop an index to measure the degree of regional integration in Asia and the Pacific (48 economies in six …