APEC leaders can take pride in progress towards free and open trade. There will always be more to do to integrate Asia Pacific economies. 2010 is the time to look beyond border barriers to trade and adopt a new post-Bogor vision of a single market. Traditional border barriers to trade in some...

Very many goods and services are traded freely among most economies. The recent proliferation of preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) demonstrates that most economies are willing to eliminate border barriers against substantially all products from almost any other economy. At the same time,...

Since 1999, there has been a sharp rise of interest in new subregional trading arrangements (SRTAs) involving APEC economies. Many, if not most, of the emerging new economic partnerships are expected to be based on a preferential free trade area (FTA). These arrangements are likely to divert...

Since 1996, the European Union (EU) has launched several significant initiatives which seek to forge closer economic partnerships with various APEC participants. The 1996 Asia- Europe Meeting (ASEM) initiative has now been followed by the launch of a new Transatlantic Economic Partnership (TEP)...

Books reviewed in this article: Gordon Fletcher, Understanding Dennis Robertson: The Man and His Work Robert G. Chambers and John Quiggin, Uncertainty, Production, Choice, and Agency John Ravenhill, APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism Stephan Boehm, Christian Gehrke, Heinz D....

This paper examines the role of foreign aid or development assistance in helping sustain East Asia's economic dynamism. It is not an historical account or an empirical study of the role of aid in East Asia's development. The first section discusses the changing landscape of development...

This paper discusses the need to beyond the old `ASEAN way' and suggests the importance of further institutional deepening of economic cooperation in ASEAN, especially in the aftermath of the recent financial crisis. Hence, it suggests the need to develop of a `Common Market minus', in which...