Trade integration and free trade agreement (FTA)-led cooperation between Asia and Latin America has increased since the … early 2000s. Using new criteria, this paper examines whether Asia-Latin America FTAs have facilitated market-led integration … by liberalizing trade and behind the border regulatory barriers. Overall Asia-Latin America FTAs provide the foundations …

This article examines the gains for South Asian economies from integrating with East Asia and India’s role in this … integration. Computable general equilibrium simulations suggest that a South Asia–East Asia FTA offers the most gains for South … Asia and that India has an incentive to include its neighbours in such an arrangement rather than going it alone with East …

Trade integration and free trade agreement (FTA)-led cooperation between Asia and Latin America has increased since the … early 2000s. Using new criteria, this paper examines whether Asia-Latin America FTAs have facilitated market-led integration … by liberalizing trade and behind the border regulatory barriers. Overall Asia-Latin America FTAs provide the foundations …

Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years … sequence, is there a case for monetary union in East Asia? Is there a case for expanded free-trade areas (FTAs) in the region … Equilibrium (CGE) model, to evaluate the economics of monetary/financial integration and various configurations of FTAs in Asia …

Against the backdrop of growing momentum for regional cooperation and integration (RCI) in Asia, this paper examines … in this paper includes an Asia-wide definition of regional roads that fall on the Asian Highway (AH) network. The AH … linkages to Europe. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) conducts research on …

This paper assesses the case for promoting financial education in Asia. It argues that the benefits of investing in …, households will become increasingly responsible for their own retirement planning. Asia's evolving experience suggests that more …