We discuss recent bilateral, regional, and country trade, partnership, and economic agreements involving both ASEAN as a single entity and individual ASEAN countries (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia) focusing on their reach beyond conventional trade in goods and services issues. What emerges is of...

East Asia is witnessing the emergence of an informal monetary system which focuses on self-insurance through own reserve accumulation and co-insurance through swaps. The former is concentrated in a small number of large countries (China, Japan, and Korea), while the latter involves informal...

This paper empirically examines the foreign aid-FDI nexus. There appears to be a notion asserting that foreign aid plays a catalytic role in stimulating private capital inflows. The attempt in this paper is to examine the possible catalytic or deterring effects of foreign aid on FDI inflows with...