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 …

In this paper, we propose a panel approach in the construction of the Asia-Pacific Regional Cooperation and Integration … principal components analysis. Findings suggest the pace of integration in Asia was broadly steady over the 11-year sample …. Based on global normalization, Asia comes second to the European Union (EU) in progress on regional integration, but in …

Asian economies and between Asia and the rest of the world. It pays special attention to the value-added relationships among … than the direct linkages. Finally, there is an increased tendency in Asia for both "near selling" of the value added in …

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

all these factors locally, nationally, and internationally. This analysis of IT-BPO industry developments in Asia points …

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