-Saharan Africa (ECOWAS and SADC), Asia (AFTA and SAPTA) and Latin America (CACM, CAN, and MERCOSUR), estimating their impacts on …

gain benefits from global network trade? Over the past 15 years Asia has become Africa's fastest growing export market … will not continue in the near future. The authors acknowledge the numerous caveats in Asia's growing interest in the …, as well as the fierce competition from Asia's cheap manufactured exports. However, they believe that there is strong …

integration of China has deepened production fragmentation in East Asia, countering fears of crowding out other countries for … international specialization. International production fragmentation in East Asia has intensified intraregional trade but has … significantly to growth in East Asia, they also breed vulnerabilities. They have not automatically led to technology spillovers and …

The "rise of Asia" is something of a myth. During 1990-2005 China accounted for 28 percent of global growth, measured … at purchasing power parity (PPP). India accounted for 9 percent. The rest of developing Asia, with nearly a billion …

identified as a major source of the disequilibrium of world agriculture. Recently, as many high-performing economies in Asia … of high-performing economies in Asia from being disrupted by political crises. …

and Central Asia. They use it to show that improved road network quality is robustly associated with higher intraregional …

countries in Asia and Australasia, and Canada and the United Kingdom. The authors find that the institutional factors which most …

(China)--and the recent reforms to them provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All …