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There is a strong presumption among economists that domestic reforms are promoted by regionalism. Yet strong empirical …
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East Asia is a region of great global significance, currently accounting for around 30% of the global economy by most measures, e.g. production, trade, investment and finance. It has also become increasingly integrated in various ways. Integration at the micro-level has steadily progressed since...
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Covering major Asian economic blocs and dialogues, this study comprehensively reviews the true progress of "Asian" economic integration in comparison with the European Union (EU) and examines the factors contributing to the integration. The results show that comprehensive continent-wide economic...
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actors, developing countries, and by increased regionalism. Depending on the sector of governance, its inherent aims, and the …
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whether and how the global financial crisis impacted Asian regionalism. The analysis suggests that the global crisis did … catalytic effect in stimulating regional innovation. At the same time, we see evolution in the pattern of Asian regionalism in … two respects: first, the recent advances in Asian regionalism are being driven primarily, at this stage, by the rise of …
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The emergence of production networks has changed the structure of international trade, which a large share of intra-regional trade flows and the rising value of intermediate goods trade or network trade between countries within the same region reflect. While a production network exists in both...
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healthy complementarity between them - through overlapping memberships, the application of open regionalism, and the benefits …
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Regional economic integration is back in vogue following the "stumble" in the Doha Round in July 2008. Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are driving this trend in Asia and the Pacific as well as in Central and South America, and the sheer volume of PTAs is striking. In the 1990s there were...
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It has taken two crises - the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 and the global financial crisis of 2007-2009 - for the international community to seriously focus on the reform of the international financial architecture for crisis prevention, management and resolution. Facing the global...
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constructivist approaches). A central point of the paper is that the putative or aspiring leaders of Asian regionalism throughout the … degenerate into a hegemonic order or a concert of power. It remains to be seen whether regionalism in an era of a rising PRC and … resources and political will and standing to provide collective goods and lead Asian regionalism, but their mutual rivalry might …
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