ASEAN has a goal to create an economic community by 2015. To achieve the goal, connectivity among the member states needs to be given due importance. In 2010, ASEAN adopted the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC), which looked at physical, institutional and people-to-people connectivity. It...

Export Credit Agencies or Exim Banks play a vital role in promoting and facilitating exports. Such services are essential to exporters if they are to compete effectively in the global market. However, emerging markets of Asia depend on financing from industrial economies and this has risks. Such...

Professor Eichengreen has published widely on the international monetary and financial system. His books include Capital Flows and Crises, and Financial Crises and What to Do About Them. Data shows that Emerging Asia relies less on bonds and more on banks than developed countries. What costs, if...

It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage—in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of servitude, often lifelong, to a...

Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Wilhelm Röpkes Vorstellungen einer integrierten Weltwirtschaft -- 3. Röpkes Sicht des Europäischen Integrationsprozesses -- 4. Röpkes Europaentwurf im Vergleich mit ausgewählten Ökonomen seiner Zeit -- 5. Europa aus...

This paper attempts to evaluate whether the PTA scheme has been successful in liberalizing intra-ASEAN trade through the new tariff reductions. More specfically, it stimulates the maximum potential trade creation effects within ASEAN of the 20% across-the-board tariff reduction on all items with...

As awareness of the process of globalization grows and the study of its effects becomes increasingly important to governments and businesses (as well as to a sizable opposition), the need for historical understanding also increases. Despite the importance of the topic, few attempts have been...