Nations (ASEAN) has evolved to embrace an ambitious economic agenda. It latest project is to establish the ASEAN Economic … Community (AEC) by 31 December 2015. Fulfilling these commitments would promote predictability in ASEAN, as well as strengthen … its credibility. But is ASEAN likely to meet this deadline? The blueprint for achieving the goal envisages the AEC …

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 …

regional integration is most advanced in the European Union which scores high in all six dimensions; Asia comes second with the …

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 … – by creating a People's Republic of China-Japan-Republic of Korea FTA, combining it with ASEAN 1 FTAs, and then involving …

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

Southeast Asia, and diverse feed-in tariffs for renewable energy. The three main ways regional cooperation can strengthen …

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 …

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 …

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