for Asia's integration process. …

joining East Asia's supply chains. While proceeding to establish the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by the end of 2015, ASEAN … inward FDI. The paper concludes that in the long run ASEAN should aim to further integrate itself with the rest of Asia and … the world (through a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific and an Asia-Europe FTA), while substantially deepening its …

and fastest growing regions of the world, especially when compared to other Asian subregions such as South Asia. In … Southeast Asia, intra-regional trade has increased to 25% in the 2010s from 18% of total trade in the early-1990s. Southeast … Asia has also become an attractive destination for foreign direct investment, which stood at 20% of total investment today …

In the last decade, East Asia has engaged in constructing numerous mechanisms to enhance regional cooperation in the … argues that East Asia's economic institutions established through the cooperation efforts of the last ten years exhibit …

Asia's economic significance has risen substantially over the past several decades. Further economic development in …

Motivated by the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) in Asia over the last decade, this paper studies the … challenges faced by the Asian "noodle bowl" - overlapping, multiple trade rules, regulations, and standards in Asia - in the … among Asian economies that have formed Asian supply chains, called Factory Asia. It then considers ways and means of …

targeted regional integration in Southeast Asia. There is a degree of similarity in the circumstances under which the two …