Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years. These accords span the real and financial sectors; rather than following the more typical pattern of “trade first, money later”, recent policy initiatives involve the simultaneous...

MIRAGE est un modele d'equilibre general calculable multi-sectoriel et multi-regional, destine a l'analyse des politiques commerciales. Il incorpore des elements de concurrence imparfaite, de differenciation des produits par varietes et par gammes de qualite, et d'investissement direct a...

Cet article etudie les enseignements des modeles d'equilibre general calculables quant a l'impact sur les salaires relatifs d'un choc de politique commerciale ou d'un choc exogene de commerce international. Les simulations presentees confirment que, en s'appuyant sur un cadre d'analyse...

This paper examines the links between ownership, innovation and exporting in electronics firms in three late industrializing East Asian countries (China, Thailand and the Philippines) drawing on recent developments in applied international trade and innovation and learning. Technology-based...

Sri Lanka was the earliest South Asian economy to introduce economic reforms to attract export-oriented FDI. The rise of clothing production for export, apparently mainly driven by foreign firms, is regarded as a major outcome of the reforms. This paper seeks to examine a range of factors...