This paper explores the long-term challenges for trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The region has emerged as an important production base for multinational corporations by joining East Asia's supply chains. While proceeding to...

This article focuses on the role of cross-border infrastructure in the process of regional integration in developing Asia. The first section sets the context, examining Asia?s phenomenal growth in trade and investment over the past two and half decades. The second section reviews four case...

This paper develops a full employment, constant population macroeconomic model with forward-looking consumers that have finite horizons. The model is designed to analyze the effects on the economy of a current bond-financed cut in taxes or an increase in government expenditures when the...