, particularly in Asia, remove restrictions and implement policies to attract FDI inflows, trade and investment have become … negotiated under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). This paper reviews recent developments in FDI flows and … their impacts in developing Asia, and the importance of the policy context in which those flows occur. It discusses …

In the run-up to the 2008 global financial crisis, there was frequent discussion of Asia having decoupled from economic … expansion of intraregional trade in Asia. This paper examines the trade linkages among Asian countries and between Asia and … diffuse networks. While Asia's intraregional trade is high, most of it consists of parts and components; however, a large …

Infrastructure services, from both hard and soft infrastructure, play a vital role in facilitating Asia's export … supply chains and distribution networks for producers. Asia's trade patterns are characterized by a high degree of …

-income economies, respectively. Results pertaining to the Asia and Pacific region reveal infrastructure on telecommunications, roads …

The paper discusses key challenges faced throughout the Asia and the Pacific region as a number of its developing …

informed by rigorous evaluation; and social protection systems. The experience of developing Asia and others has shown that …