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Cross-border price differentials and goods market integration in East Asia
Moon, Woosik - 2013
As cross-border movements of goods, capital, and labor are intensifying, it is likely that goods markets in East Asia will become increasingly integrated. This study investigates the current state of goods market integration in East Asia by measuring the extent of cross-border price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397294
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Russian Federation–East Asia Liquefied Natural Gas Trade Patterns and Regional Energy Security
Rasoulinezhad, Ehsan; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad; … - 2020
East Asia has remained the biggest market for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2018. The Russian Federation has a clear … vision to develop its East Asia LNG projects to provide a bigger share of Asian LNG imports. We model Russian Federation …–East Asia LNG trade patterns via the gravity trade theory, which is shown to fit well with energy trade patterns. Our findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014101634
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How can Japan help create a sustainable hydrogen society in Asia?
Janardhanan, Nandakumar; Moinuddin, Mustafa; Zusman, Eric; … - 2023
Japan has adopted several policies that signal its intent to rely on hydrogen to achieve net-zero climate goals. However, many of those same policies are unclear about its support for a transition to green hydrogen. Relying on gray and blue hydrogen without a transition to green hydrogen will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540476
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Financing Asia’s Infrastructure : Modes of Development and Integration of Asian Financial Markets
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2010
Asia faces very large infrastructure funding demands, estimated at around US$750 billion per year for energy, transport, telecommunications, water, and sanitation during 2010-2020 (ADB/ADBI 2009). Asia has large savings, significant international reserves, and rapid accumulations of funds that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139554
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Policies to enhance trade facilitation in South Asia and Southeast Asia
Bayley, Anthony - 2014
This paper discusses trade facilitation in the context of enhancing trading links between South and Southeast Asia, in a manner understandable to the non-specialist. Presently, these two Asian regions tend to trade preferentially with distant markets. One of the reasons cited for the limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310985
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From global factory to global mall: East Asia's changing trade composition
Helble, Matthias; Ngiang, Boon-Loong - 2014
This paper studies how East Asia's trade composition and orientation have changed over the past decade and analyzes the implications for the region and beyond. Over the last 2 decades we have witnessed the emergence of regional and global supply chains, in which production is divided into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310990
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Economic implications of deeper South Asian-Southeast Asian integration: A CGE approach
Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Morgan, Peter; Plummer, Michael; … - 2014
South and Southeast Asian economic integration via increased trade flows has been increasing significantly over the past 2 decades, but the level of trade continues to be relatively low. This underperformance has been due to both policy-related variables - relatively high tariff and non-tariff...
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A connectivity-driven development strategy for Nepal: From a landlocked to a land-linked state
Rana, Pradumna B.; Karmacharya, Binod - 2014
Nepal's lackluster economic performance during the post-conflict period (that is, after November 2006) has been driven by remittances from the export of labor services and the improved performance of the agricultural sector, which is still very much weather dependent. The authors make the case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310994
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Connecting South Asia and Southeast Asia: A Bangladesh country study
Rahman, Mustafizur; Moazzem, Khondaker Golam; … - 2014
Economic integration is being inhibited by the poor state of transport connectivity between Bangladesh, and South Asia and Southeast Asia. This study reviews connectivity initiatives of Bangladesh and the two neighboring regions and proposes ways to deepen regional and interregional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310995
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The Pacific's connectivity and its trade implications
Helble, Matthias - 2014
Pacific economies are confronted with several structural constraints that limit their economic growth, most importantly their small size and remoteness from major world markets. In this paper we study the importance of transport connectivity for Pacific economies when participating in the world...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310996