1. Introduction: Diversity, Convergence and Opportunities along the Belt and Road; Jawad Syed and Yung-Hsiang Ying -- 2. BRI and the Effect of Trade and Financial Integration on Output Volatility; Choudhary Tanveer Shehzad -- 3. The Changing Asian Perception of China's Rising: A BRI Context;...

1. Introduction: Examining the Belt and Road Initiative in the China Pakistan Context; Jawad Syed and Yung-Hsiang Ying -- 2. China's Belt and Road Initiative: A Pakistani Perspective; Jawad Syed -- 3. Economic Assessment of CPEC: The Case of a Power Project; Syed M. Hasan, Hamza Ali, Fatima Azmat...

We investigate the synchronization of growth cycles between China and 11 Asia-Pacific countries using quarterly data for the period 1993:2-2012:4. We employ a wavelet-based measure of comovement to examine the degree of business cycle synchronization in the time-frequency framework. While we...