Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua created the Central American Common Market in 1960. For about two decades the participants performed successfully in terms of standard macroeconomic indicators. Starting in the late sixties, however, the common market gradually began to...

In this paper the trade patterns of Singapore in general and between Singapore and its Southeast Asian partners are described against a backdrop of relevant policy, e.g. in the context of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). A simple model of the gravity type is also applied in...