More than half of the world's sovereign states are small economies. The majority are in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean Basin. For small economies, the globalization process involves opportunities, but also important risks because of their vulnerability and lack of diversification. This...

Review of the Porter Hypothesis and the related literature -- Measurement of environmental regulation -- Environmental regulation and renewable energy innovation -- Environmental regulation and renewable energy exports. .

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of both national and regional trade facilitation capacities, issues, challenges and lessons, with a special interest in sustainably advancing West Africa’s regional trade facilitation agenda. It examines the contributions of trade facilitation...

Preface -- Chapter 1: What Makes for an Effective Free Trade Agreement? Examination of Theory and Evidence -- Chapter 2: The Mode of Economic Cooperation in the “One Belt and One Road” Construction -- Chapter 3: Simulation on Trade Effects of CJK FTA and the Prospects of Negotiation --...

Policy-makers in Southern Africa are increasingly convinced that regional trade liberalization can improve growth performance and stimulate development throughout the region. To succeed where previous attempts have failed, however, governments must address two key issues. The first of these is...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of South-South regional trade issues, with a particular focus on sustainably fostering Africa’s regional trade agenda. It examines the extent to which South-South regional trade agreements (RTAs) have contributed toward enhancing regional integration...

This book examines Indonesia’s national regulatory framework in comparison to trade regionalism. As a relatively new phenomenon compared to trade regionalism, financial regionalism has successfully shaped cooperative networks among financial authorities in East Asia. In this incisive new book,...

The Asian model of export-led growth served it well in the post-war period, but prolonged sluggish growth of the developed economies following the global financial crisis, together with growing inequality and rising environmental problems, point to the need for a new growth model. The purpose of...

1 The Chinese Birdcage -- 2 Western Triumphalism -- 3 China as the World's Factory -- 4 Housing Bubbles across the Western Hemisphere -- 5 The Global Financial Crisis -- 6 The Economic Fallout -- 7 Unlimited Supplies of Labor -- 8 China's Economic Development -- 9 Global Imbalances and Corporate...