multilateralize it. The paper first reviews free trade agreement (FTA) developments, and discusses the characteristics and motives of … FTAs in East Asia. It then analyzes the contents of major plurilateral FTAs in East Asia, that is ASEAN's five FTAs each …

multilateralize it. The paper first reviews free trade agreement (FTA) developments, and discusses the characteristics and motives of … FTAs in East Asia. It then analyzes the contents of major plurilateral FTAs in East Asia, that is ASEAN's five FTAs each …

century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …

This paper reviews the role of services in development and growth, the potential role of trade in services as a driver … domestic trade costs. Barriers to trade in services have direct as well as indirect effects on cross-border trade and … investment, but research suggests that the extent to which countries will benefit from open services regimes and regional …

involves liberalization and facilitation of trade in goods, services, and investment, as well as protection and promotion of … investment. The paper outlines the AEC Blueprint actions and the time lines for completion. The authors find that by end-2011 … are difficulties with the removal of non-tariff barriers as well as with the liberalization of services and investment …

Direction Specification’ (DWDS) to supplement the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The … a ‘Trade Policy 3.0’ approach would make it possible for users to automatically fetch rules via applications and, at the …

investment. The potential gains from closer connectivity between South Asia and Southeast Asia are no doubt large. India … Asia will bring significant opportunities for industrial development in India and trade potential with South and East Asian … communication technology - contributes to integration by reducing transaction costs and facilitating intraregional trade and …

(DigiSRII 1.0) to uncover digital economy integration trends across Asia-Pacific region. The results show that Asia and the …-economy infrastructure and ICT goods trade liberalization. However, workforce capacitation and infrastructures investments are essential to … trade in digitally-enabled goods and services. From a sustainable development perspective, inclusivity and equity of access …

. South Asia has to enact its own connectivity and trade facilitation arrangement to take forward the agenda of South Asian … trade facilitation and connectivity in the region. South Asia connectivity needs a new vision to compete globally. This …South Asia could unleash its full potentials, provided, it improves the infrastructure facilities, which are at present …

comparison of Asia's regional integration performance with those of other regions of the world. As a second step, the constructed … indicator of regional integration outcomes is used as the output variable in a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate Asia …