multilateralize it. The paper first reviews free trade agreement (FTA) developments, and discusses the characteristics and motives of … FTAs in East Asia. It then analyzes the contents of major plurilateral FTAs in East Asia, that is ASEAN's five FTAs each …

economy. It involves liberalization and facilitation of trade in goods, services, and investment, as well as protection and … small extent of intra-ASEAN trade, and the wide differences in economic size, development level, and industrial competence … strategies and external pressures (such as the formation of the European Union Single Market and the North American Free Trade …

century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …

bilateral trade statistics and provides a case study for 10 countries in Asia and the Pacific. The paper also provides an …This working paper introduces the concept of bilateral asymmetries in international merchandise trade statistics (IMTS …), i.e. the discrepancies that can be seen in reported bilateral trade flows between trading partners. Such discrepancies …

This working paper introduces the concept of Trade in Value Added (TiVA) and presents an initial analysis of TiVA for … selected regional ESCAP economies. The paper introduces Global Value Chains (GVCs) and issues for the measurement of trade … input-output tables (IOTs) and TiVA analysis, and availability of data in the Asia-Pacific region. The paper concludes with …

multilateralize it. The paper first reviews free trade agreement (FTA) developments, and discusses the characteristics and motives of … FTAs in East Asia. It then analyzes the contents of major plurilateral FTAs in East Asia, that is ASEAN's five FTAs each …

multilateralize it. The paper first reviews free trade agreement (FTA) developments, and discusses the characteristics and motives of … FTAs in East Asia. It then analyzes the contents of major plurilateral FTAs in East Asia, that is ASEAN's five FTAs each …

century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …

The empirical relationship between trade protection and economic growth is surprisinglyfragile, as shown in a number of … between trade barriers and growth is contingent on measures ofcomparative advantage. The findings suggest that these …

expansion of intraregional trade in Asia. This paper examines the trade linkages among Asian countries and between Asia and … diffuse networks. While Asia's intraregional trade is high, most of it consists of parts and components; however, a large … role for the PRC in mitigating the transmission of economic shocks to Asia through trade with other regions. …