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Regional corridors are popular components of regional cooperation initiatives and have been in use for several years. Yet discussion about development of these corridors tends to be relatively general in scope and difficult to pin down in terms of content and implications. This paper elaborates...
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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 …
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Southeast Asia, and diverse feed-in tariffs for renewable energy. The three main ways regional cooperation can strengthen …
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labor in Asia and the Pacific has stagnated in recent years even as the flow of goods, services, and investment have …
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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 …
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We develop an index to measure the degree of regional integration in Asia and the Pacific (48 economies in six …
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Asia and the Pacific. This is confirmed by debt ratio projections and evidence of widening pockets of vulnerability picked …
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This paper assesses the accuracy of Asian Development Outlook growth and inflation forecasts for 43 Asian economies from 2007 to 2016, against the benchmark of World Economic Outlook projections by the International Monetary Fund. They are found to overlap quite closely, notwithstanding much...
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By 2010, demand for oil in developing Asia substantially exceeded that of North America and Europe combined, but demand … standardization. In 2010, 76% of all Middle East exports went to Asia, but oil from the Middle East and Africa will not satisfy the …
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The Asian Development Outlook (ADO) provides growth and inflation forecasts for more than 40 economies in the region. This paper assesses the accuracy of those forecasts against actual outcomes for the years from 2008 to 2011. The World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecasts by the International...
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