FTA bilateral and regional negotiations in Asia have developed quickly in the past decade moving Asia ever closer to an … economic union. Unlike Europe with the EU and the 1997 treaty of Rome and the 1993 NAFTA in North American, Asian economic … another. For countries in Asia there is negotiation of a China-Japan-Korea agreement, a China-India agreement, a Trans …

century Venetian spice markets were already well integrated with those in Iberia and northern Europe, implying that Portugal … Europe. In addition, it explores European market integration before and after 1503, the year when da Gama returned from his …

be more different. Common wisdom has it that on impact Asia endured fiscal austerity imposed by the IMF whereas the IMF … different policies to begin with, the fiscal adjustment in Asia was far more modest than is commonly known and the switch from … stimulus to austerity in Europe was quite abrupt. The difference in fiscal stance helps explain the difference in the post …