Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of … gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity … composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began with Japan in the 1950s and the Republic of Korea and Taipei,China from …

The agriculture sector in Asia and the Pacific region contributes massively to climate change, as the region has the … largest share of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture. The region is the largest producer of rice, a major source … use for irrigation) emissions from agriculture. Besides this, a substantial increase in livestock production for meat and …

the world's freshwater supplies go to agriculture; in South Asia, agriculture uses over 90%. On-farm greenhouse gas …; in Asia, during the same period, on-farm GHG emissions grew by 27%, from 2.5 to 3.2 GtCO2e. All of this puts agriculture … to "end hunger" and "achieve food security and improved nutrition," while promoting "sustainable agriculture." Lifting …

subregions. Estimations reveal that West Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia, and Central Asia have agriculture … the inefficiencies of economic units. Using 2010-2016 panel data on agriculture production and five inputs-land, labor …, capital, fertilizer, and energy-this paper estimates the agriculture production efficiencies of the countries under five Asian …

the impacts of inflation and other drivers of food insecurity in developing Asia, we carried out a household survey in … 2023 in seven countries in Southeast Asia and nine countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia. The key results are as …

Trade integration and free trade agreement (FTA)-led cooperation between Asia and Latin America has increased since the … early 2000s. Using new criteria, this paper examines whether Asia-Latin America FTAs have facilitated market-led integration … by liberalizing trade and behind the border regulatory barriers. Overall Asia-Latin America FTAs provide the foundations …

Asia. It finds broad geographical coverage of RTAs in the Americas, and evidence that these agreements have broadened and … looking to ensure well-functioning RTAs. It suggests that RTAs can encourage broader liberalization in Asia, but some sectors …

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged global economies with unparalleled negative shock. Asia and Latin America have … America and Asia, such as the Latin American balance-of-payment crisis in the 1980s and a number of Latin American banking … challenged with worse debt dynamics and more limited access to dollar liquidity. Asia, instead, seems to have developed a much …

Free trade agreements (FTAs) have proliferated in East Asia in recent years. As of December 2008, eight bilateral FTAs … pressing issue for Japanese firms because Japanese firms have expanded overseas, particularly into the rest of Asia, which has … contributed to the formation of production networks in East Asia. There have been numerous ex ante studies on the impacts of FTAs …