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Why is Asia lagging behind other regions in creating regional judicial institutions? What lessons from the operation of … judicial institutions elsewhere have also rarely been used to resolve inter-state disputes. The most valuable lesson for Asia … and private parties about the implementation of international law. While Asia lacks an extensive set of regional laws and …
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ASEAN has significant achievements to its credit. It is a durable and effective functioning entity, more so than any other regional organization in the developing world. For a region characterized by great diversity and a history of conflict, ASEAN has played a role in delivering relative peace...
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the degree of risk-sharing in East Asia has improved along with the observed rise in integration in the region. Higher …-sharing continues to be low in Asia. The increase in cross-economy correlation in consumption coincided with an even higher cross …
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The future creation of a region-wide economic agreement in Asia has become the hot issue among trade policymakers in … the region. The APEC 2010 Summit Statement clearly states that the members should pursue a Free Trade Area of the Asia … (TPP). This paper considers the path or sequencing towards a future region-wide economic agreement in Asia, both …
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regionalist projects in Asia throughout the 1990s. As they demonstrate, Asian countries, especially Japan, have held a strong … desire to establish an Asia-only regional cooperation framework at least since the early 1990s. The basic policy stance of …
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When debating the pros and cons of economic regionalism, haven't we focused enough on trade in goods at the expense of services? This article argues that regionalism is certainly a building block, not a stumbling block to a multilateral trading system, using the services liberalization scheme of...
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paper aims to identify the trade agenda that represents Asia's concerns for the global and regional trading system. Asia, in … particular East Asia, has played an important role in evolving the global production and trade networks. The regional production … network in East Asia became the major transmission mechanism of the crisis, resulting in a trade collapse, but Asia …
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Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years … sequence, is there a case for monetary union in East Asia? Is there a case for expanded free-trade areas (FTAs) in the region … Equilibrium (CGE) model, to evaluate the economics of monetary/financial integration and various configurations of FTAs in Asia …
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Free trade agreements (FTAs) have been proliferating in Asia for more than a decade. International fragmentation of … qualitative approach that carefully examines the characteristics of both product fragmentation trade and FTAs in Asia to ascertain …
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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was created to address political and security issues. Over time, the economy has taken center stage and the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is going to be launched in 2015. The AEC is a milestone promoting ASEAN economic integration and...
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