Europe and Asia followed very different paths to economic integration after 1945. By 2000, an economic union with free … integration agreements were absent from Asia, although countries in East and Southeast Asia were becoming linked in global value …-called WTO+ issues). The outcome will be greater economic integration in Europe and Asia of countries seeking to benefit from …

policy implications / Kiyoshi Kojima -- Economic development in East Asia : doing what comes naturally? / James Riedel … economic zones : a new motive force in Asia-Pacific development / Chia Siow Yue and Lee Tsao Yuan -- Sub-regional economic …. Petri -- Open regionalism : the nature of Asia Pacific integration / Peter Drysdale, Andrew Elek and Hadi Soesastro -- Is …

Asia. Early debates centered on the advantages and disadvantages of joining the global economy as exporters to the high …-income countries, while trade within Asia was of minor importance. Increasingly, however, trade spilled across Asian borders, and as … production chains became more complex attention has shifted towards the organization of international trade within Asia and …