The paper argues that East Asia is setting the pace for the recent trend in regional and inter-regional integration, which is associated with multilateral infrastructure connectivity initiatives, like the "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI) of the People's Republic of China and Japan's "Partnership...

Thailand's increasing importance as a regional co-production base and as an intra-regional trade and border trade hub is due mainly to recent changes in its economic structure, namely, the lack of operational workers, rises in wages, and increases in outward foreign direct investment (FDI),...

This paper provides the quantitative estimate of the potential growth bonus for CIS countries, and in particular EU's Easter Neighbours, that can be a result of deeper institutional harmonisation with the EU. Econometric investigation involving instrumental variable, simultaneous equation and...

Colombia?s international agenda with the U.S. reduces to narcotic?s control and liberalization of the economy. Economic integration is a second range policy for both governments? agenda. Returning this policy objective to the edge of a preeminent strategic government and diplomatic commitment is...

Institutions change the society and vice versa. Without institutions, society would develop in a different way. European Integration is institutionally embedded in the West European societies. Beside the membership of the European Union, the accession thereto also matters. The institutional...