One of the institutions involved in coffee value chain in Indonesia is the cooperative. We compare the experience of … two cooperatives in exporting coffee beans. The Margamulya Coffee Producer Cooperative currently exports coffee beans … directly and through an exporter, while the Mitra Malabar Cooperative previously exported its coffee beans but currently …

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 …

Although a latecomer, economically important Asia has emerged at the forefront of global free trade agreement (FTA …. Political economy considerations suggest that a likely scenario is for FTA consolidation in Asia to be followed by connections …

poverty reduction - in Asia. In exploring this relationship, this study goes beyond defining poverty by the income or … evidence that manufacturing growth has had a bearing on the inclusiveness of growth, especially in Southeast Asia in recent …

I analyze the risks in the banking systems in East Asia using the standard supervisory framework, which assesses … tests indicate that the largest banking systems in East Asia have a total of almost US$1.2 trillion in Tier 1 capital and a …

With the global economy still in recession, two important questions arise for Asia: how soon will the recession end … Asia in order to shed light on these issues. Several important stylized facts emerge from this study: (i) recessions … norm, suggesting that the current recession could have been even costlier and more drawn out had Asia's banks not entered …

In this paper, we analyzed key aspects of the changing economic relationship between the European Union (EU) and Asia … estimated the potential negative effects of Asian/Asia-Pacific regional accords on the EU, and likewise found small effects …. Nevertheless, using a highly-disaggregated (partial-equilibrium) approach, we argued that high-quality FTAs in Asia could be quite …