decade - now including all of Southeast Asia - ASEAN broadened cooperation on macroeconomic and financial issues, many of …

The interest in forming BTAs has been growing at a phenomenal rate. In the Asia-Pacific region alone, the number of … identify a set of general and specific factors involved. The general factors related to disenchantment with progress of the WTO … region become largely redundant. For instance, an Asia-wide FTA would supersede a host of regional BTAs and consolidate them …