, particularly the move towards the AEC by 2015 and the attempts to broaden FTAs in East Asia. Ultimately, it is desirable for ASEAN …

Southeast Asia. In view of slowdown in growth and even recession in advanced economies as a result of the adverse impact of the … toward rising middle class of Asia. To successfully implement the new initiative of "Make in India", India needs to be …

each other and mutually supporting rise of a dynamic Asia. It demonstrates the thorough structural transformations that the …

ASEAN FTA (AFTA), and encouraged by ASEAN+1 (ASEAN plus one country) FTAs, more and more economies in east Asia are involved … in the region. To this end, east Asia needs to progress from the proliferation of multilayered FTAs to a region-wide FTA … of factors, from the economic to the political. East Asia is with no exception involved in the process and witnessing the …

This paper argues that developing Asia is overlooking an opportunity for increased growth and development through trade … in business services. Developing Asia would benefit from liberalizing services trade as it has benefited from … liberalizing goods trade. This argument rests on these key findings: business services are important for growth, developing Asia is …