Arguably, leveraging on the intraregional market is important for a commodity like palm oil that has been constantly facing challenges to sustain global demand in extra-regional markets. The paper therefore compares intraregional export potentials for palm oil in two regions that are at the...

The paper presents econometric analysis of relationship between foreign direct investment and international trade. Theory suggests that complementarity or substitutability between exports/imports and FDI depend on types of FDI and disaggregation level. Nevertheless, most empirical works find...

Not unpredictably, there is a complex energy bind as we approach the end of the twentieth century. The oil importing industrial countries have anchored their industries, their means of transportation, their home comfort- in short, their whole energy-dependent lifestyle-largely to hydrocarbon fuels