"William E. James and Shiela Camingue examine the composition and prospects for growth of net exports of the United States (US) to the world and to developing Asia. They find that much of the apparent shift in export product shares was a result of the worldwide collapse in demand for...

This paper examines the structure and direction of developing Asia’s tradeover the past two decades. The impacts of economic slowdown in highincomeOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)countries on developing Asia in 2009-2010 are then projected through acomputable...

The global economic crisis sent world trade volume and world production into retreat and threatened a second Great Depression. There has emerged a consensus that global imbalancesfundamentally reflected in the over-reliance upon the United States (US) consumer marketthat built up over the first...

This paper seeks to explore the basis for a free trade agreement (FTA) between Japan and the Republic of Korea by comparing export patterns of these two countries with that of a nonmember---Taiwan---that is geographically close and is also a major exporter of machinery. After calculating indices...

This paper examines the structure and direction of developing Asia's trade over the past two decades. The impacts on developing Asia of the economic slowdown in 2009-2010 in high-income countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which includes the European...

This paper examines the structure and direction of developing Asia's trade over the past two decades. The impacts on developing Asia of the economic slowdown in 2009–2010 in high-income countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which includes the European...