This article assesses the contribution of Australia’s preferences to generation of employment opportunities in ASEAN region. It also verifies the assumption regarding imports and the extent to which imports from LDCs has affected Australian employment.

At the ASEAN Summit in November 2000, the leaders of ASEAN and China agreed to enhance economic cooperation and integration with the goal of establishing an ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (FTA). This decision was a natural response to a number of important global and regional developments of the...

This paper recognizes the challenges faced by the People's Bank of China in its central banking endeavor. The fundamental problem lies with the entrenchment of party politics within the government, which compromises its operations. We conclude that it needs to make a paradigm shift from its...

This paper aims to assess the implications of the Asian economic crisis of 1997/98 and Singapore’s current initiatives to forge extra-ASEAN free trade agreements for the future of ASEAN economic integration. Have the recent crisis and the resulting economic difficulties undermined ASEAN’s...

This book is the result of the papers presented at the workshop on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Promotion of Social Development: Experiences from Latin America and Asia that took place in Tokyo and Okinawa from July 12 to 16, 2004. The workshop was organized by the Social Development...

This article assesses the contribution of Australia’s preferences to generation of employment opportunities in ASEAN region. It also verifies the assumption regarding imports and the extent to which imports from LDCs has affected Australian employment.