First, while intellectual histories of law and development theory are now common, no work that I am aware of employs the actual experience of Northeast Asia to interrogate these theories, yet it is in Northeast Asia where modern history's most outstanding development success stories can be...

This paper explores the economic impacts of Korean unification on North and South Korea. It presents a new consistent database on macroeconomic, sectoral and trade data, and an input output table for the North Korean economy, and then incorporates it in a global intertemporal multi-sector...

French Abstract: L'impact de l'expansion économique et commerciale de la Chine sur l'économie du Burkina Faso est analysé dans ce travail à travers trois canaux : les échanges de biens et services, les investissements directs étrangers et l'aide au développement. Pour capter les effets...

This introductory chapter summarises the diversity of perspectives from a group of academicians, practitioners and contributors and their knowledge of, and/or experience of, corruption in the Asia Pacific Region. Hand in hand, the theoreticians inform, while the practitioners enlighten; this...

A multilateral currency union removes the intraregional exchange rates but not the union rate variability with the rest of the world. The intraregional exchange rate variability is thus latent. A two-step procedure is developed to measure the variability. The measured variables are used to model...

Analysing cases from India, this paper reveals flaws in recent claims that reverse innovation can help resolving some of the World's most urgent social problems. Reverse innovations diffuse to developed countries after being introduced to developing ones, and are therefore per definition...

The experience of India in economic catch-up is unique when compared to other countries. First, the catch-up process of India was not only service-led, but also accompanied by a decoupling between manufacturing and services. Second, productivity performance in the service sector was higher than...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the linkage between FDI and trade in the case of Vietnam. To investigate this issue, firstly, we attempt to find out the causality relationship between FDI and trade of Vietnam, including exports and imports. Secondly, we try to find out the determinants...

On 4 August 2015, after three years and several rounds of negotiation, the European Union – Vietnam Free Trade Agreement officially established principles for the basic content of the Agreement. This study aims to analyse impact of Vietnam-EU FTA on bilateral trade of Vietnam. By using a...