"The book is a key reading which provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the contemporary Asian economy. The book focuses on the structural changes that are rapidly transforming the regional economic landscape in the 21st century. It highlights the concomitant challenges that have...

FTAs are proliferating in East Asia. This proliferation will become a foundation for the region's economic integration on the one hand, but will also lead to the ""spaghetti (or noodle) ball syndrome,"" due to a mixture of different rules such as rules of origin. In addition, the need for many...

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction to the Handbook on East Asian Economic Integration: An overview of shifting paradigm in globalisation, trade, and investment in East Asia -- 2. East Asian architecture of...

"The electricity sector's reforms aim to modernise its infrastructure, rules, policies, and procedures to allow for more efficiency and for clean energy to have the same playing field in the power competition/wholesale/retail electricity market. This will enable inefficient power to be phased...

"The trade-investment-service-intellectual property (IP) nexus remains at the heart of economic development and the main features of which are global value chains (GVCs) and digitalisation. The protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) has become a critical issue not only for advanced...

Introduction -- Part I. Country Implementation of SDGs: Measuring the Distance to 2030 Targets -- 1. The impact of Global COVID-19 Crisis on SDGs achievement in ASEAN-countries -- 2. Measuring the Distance to 2030 Targets in China and East Asia Imperatives -- 3. Measuring the distance to 2030...