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The global economic crisis has affected the East Asian economies via trade and investment. The export-led model which … Europe to regional and domestic demand. Regional trade integration has been market-led through production networks and … foreign direct investment (FDI). Since the proliferation of bilateral and plurilateral free trade agreements (FTA) and …
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possibility of closing such gaps and linking the two regions through various trade and investment initiatives. The opportunities …
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The global financial and economic crisis has affected East Asia mainly through the trade channel. The region remains … bilateral trade and economic agreements since the late 1990s. The trigger point for regionalism in East Asia appears to be the … regional trade architecture include Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)+3 and ASEAN+6 for East Asia, the Free Trade …
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Some consumers and environmentalists espouse purchasing food that is produced locally or nationally. An appealing expression of this is the "food miles" concept, which reflects the aim of minimizing the distance food has traveled before reaching the consumer. The concept of food miles is flawed...
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"Open Skies," in general, refers to the liberalization of aviation markets that can be pursued on a bilateral, regional, or multilateral basis. At the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) level, liberalization of airfreight and passenger services is targeted by December 2008. This...
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International trade has played an essential role in Asia's remarkable growth, development, and integration in recent … decades. Infrastructure, both hard and soft, has played an integral part in facilitating that trade, primarily through … trade and to capitalize more fully on positive spillover effects. This study explores the nexus between Asia's trade flows …
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supply chains and distribution networks for producers. Asia's trade patterns are characterized by a high degree of … intraregional trade, particularly in parts and components for geographically fragmented production networks. This is both in …
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The Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011 was the biggest earthquake recorded in Japanese seismic history, and the fourth largest recorded in the world. The scope of the disaster far exceeded that of the Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. The repercussions of this disaster spread far beyond the...
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This study investigates the impact of global crisis shocks on India's trade and industry. We use both panel data … trade. The estimated results of panel data models show that changes in trade composition are positively associated with … trade with the help of vector autoregression techniques. The findings of the study indicate that the compositional change in …
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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 …
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