The paper addresses preferential trade agreements in Asia and the Pacific with the objective of identifying their … characteristics which can be useful in assessing the effects of their implementation. The paper relies mostly on the Asia-Pacific … important aspects of preferential trade in Asia and the Pacific: (a) the rapid proliferation of preferential trade and revealed …

a Global Partnership for Development”) with respect to the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) of Asia and the Pacific. The … access commitments of the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial Declaration of 2005 have largely been met and LDCs of the Asia-Pacific …

China, Hong Kong and Japan, and Asia Pacific region are major exporter of CFG during 2002-2008. Competitiveness of India …, Malaysia and Macao show good in 2008 for SPVS. Japan, Philippines, China, Hong Kong and South Korea have a comparative … friendly goods and technologies. The Comparative advantage analyses indicate that Hong Kong, China, and Japan have comparative …

Northeast Asia has become increasingly important. Globalisation and China’s galloping economy have caused radically different …With North Korea going nuclear, tensions ever present in the Taiwan Strait, and growing posturing over territories … economic growth rates in Northeast Asia, resulting in constant fluctuations in the balance of power among the nations in the …

liberalisation in the context of India and Korea. Using three indicators of liberalisation this paper finds no meaningful …

In this paper, Japan’s positive and negative aid sanctions policy toward Asian countries since the introduction of new … aid guidelines will be examined and discussed. Japan can choose to impose negative aid sanctions (the suspension or a … increase in foreign aid) would be applied to aid recipients that conduct desirable polices in the light of Japan’s ODA Charter …

Japan and Korea. We then consider changes to immigration policy in both countries. We are able to examine the effects on …

that the Anglo-Saxon financial system is inferior to that of Japan and Germany and puts the former countries at a …

years, with very substantial diversification and economic development. Korea, for example, managed to transform itself from … being a largely agricultural society in 1960 to the point where it became the third country after the US and Japan to export … 256 K memory chips, developed by its own firms. It is no exaggeration to say that the post-WWII development of East Asia …

industrialization and fast growth over a sustained period in the entire history of mankind. Recall that Japan in 1950 produced less than …. By 1980 Japan overtook the US to become the largest producer of automobiles in the world. …