direct investment. However, response from Japan has been rather subdued. This paper attempts to gain some insight into this …

This study analyzes the potential impact of the Philippines-Japan Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on the Philippine economy … in case of the Philippines' discriminately unilateral tariff reduction on import from Japan using a computable general … tariff rates on imports from Japan would expand the Philippines' import from Japan and in total by 2.36-8.58 and 0 …

Japan. Based both on literature review and the experience of a Japanese visiting professor the paper deals with the …

perspective, some major donors including Japan have been as selective in delivering their aid as some countries well-known for … their selective aid delivery, such as Denmark. Japan has provided higher aid for the countries with better policy and … major donors in Asia, the Pacific, and Europe, including Japan, has proliferated less than the aid programs of most other …

Zealand, the United States and China analyse key dimensions of the changing relationship between China and the Pacific Islands … and explore the strategic, economic and diplomatic implications for regional actors. The China Alternative includes … chapters on growing great power competition in the region, as well as the response to China's rise by the US and its Western …

sources of institutional trajectories of economic development in China, Japan, and Korea. It stylizes the Malthusian-phase of … states of Qing China, Tokugawa Japan, and Yi Korea by focusing on the way in which agricultural taxes were enforced. It also …