In understanding the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) in Asia since 2000, it is important to distinguish … total of 34 Enabling Clause-based FTAs in effect around the globe, more than half of them are located in Asia. Moreover, the … way the Enabling Clause is used by developing countries in Asia is very different from other regions. Outside of Asia, the …

Food security is the broad area of the food for the forth coming generation. Asia's famous economic rise as the “global … trade agreements (FTAs), as trade-policy instruments in Asia, were largely absent in the region's trade policy architecture … during Asia's economic rise. Four main factors underlie the recent spread of FTA initiatives in Asia: (1) deepening market …