This article examines trends and patterns of intra-regional foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Asia, with a focus … on the potential for integrating production processes among countries in the region through further trade and investment … policy reforms. The empirical evidence pieced together from scattered sources suggests that horizontal (market seeking) FDI …

This paper examines foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing Asia over the past three decades with emphasis on two …€˜crowding out’ effect of China’s rise as a major host to FDI on the other countries in the region. The evidence suggests that … that, in designing policies of outward-oriented development, investment and trade policies must be considered together as …

This paper examines foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing Asia over the past three decades with emphasis on two … out’ effect of China’s rise as a major host to FDI on the other countries in the region. The evidence suggests that … designing policies of outward-oriented development, investment and trade policies must be considered together as co …

in trade and investment policy regimes and the overall investment climate for internationalisation of domestic companies … outward FDI from India as an unmixed economic blessing, given the remaining distortion in the domestic investment climate …

international trade using a unique disaggregated dataset relating to US manufacturing imports. It is found that imports of parts and … components are remarkably less sensitive to changes in relative prices and, consequently, the sensitivity of aggregate trade … flows to relative prices tends to diminish as trade cuts ever more rapidly into the production process. This finding casts …

financial crisis against the backdrop of pre-crisis trade patterns. The analysis is motivated by the 'decoupling' thesis, which … probe three key issues: Was the East Asian trade integration story that underpinned the decoupling thesis simply a …/or by the drying up of trade credit, which overpowered the cushion provided by intra-regional trade? What are the new policy …

implications for the analysis of the determinants of trade flows. Reflecting rapid global spread of production sharing, trade in … parts and components has increased at a much faster rate than total manufacturing trade in recent years and East Asia (both … impact on aggregate trade flows of relative price changes diminishes as its share increases. This implies that exchange rate …