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improved living standards in the Asia-Pacific region through enhanced trade and economic integration lies at the heart of APEC …’s mission. While APEC’s focus has traditionally been on trade and investment liberalisation and facilitation, it is increasingly … gains to the region. The paper also looks at the role that APEC can play in promoting and managing the challenges of …
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Since the 1960s, African states have embraced regional integration as a vital mechanism for political cooperation and for pooling resources to overcome problems of small and fragmented economies. In building meaningful institutions for regionalism, however, Africans have faced the challenges of...
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Since the 1960s, African states have embraced regional integration as a vital mechanism for political cooperation and for pooling resources to overcome problems of small and fragmented economies. In building meaningful institutions for regionalism, however, Africans have faced the challenges of...
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Since the 1960s, African states have embraced regional integration as a vital mechanism for political cooperation and for pooling resources to overcome problems of small and fragmented economies. In building meaningful institutions for regionalism, however, Africans have faced the challenges of...
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This study assesses long-run real per capita output convergence among selected Latin American countries. The empirical investigation, however, is based on an alternative approach. Strong convergence is determined on the basis of the first largest principal component, based on income differences...
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We use the case of EU enlargement in 2004 to investigate the impact of economic integration on regional income growth. Being particularly interested in studying the effects ‘at the margin’, we track the relative performance of regions adjacent to both sides of the integration border...
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-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). While both approaches are second-best compared to unconcerted unilateral liberalization, the major … disadvantage of liberalization APEC style in the industrial sector consists in introducing distortions between sectors as well as … of time consistency of liberalization under the so-called Bogor target of achieving free trade within APEC in 2010 (2020 …
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