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Optimum Competitive Area: Romania's Economic Integration in Southeast Europe
Cojanu, Valentin - In: Transition Studies Review 13 (2006) 1, pp. 175-198
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005758226
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Asian Economic Integration and Cooperation: Challenges and Ways Forward for Pan-Asian Regionalism
Rai, Durgesh K. - 2010
regional and the subregional level. Yet although economic integration has increased, regionalism in the sense of economic … cooperation at both the pan-Asian and subregional levels has lagged behind. Regionalism or economic cooperation in terms of … progress of Asian regionalism faces several challenges. Also, the increasing number of FTAs could lead to a 'spaghetti …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285651
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The Building Block versus Stumbling Block Debate of Regionalism: From the Perspective of Service Trade Liberalization in Asia
Hamanaka, Shintaro - 2009
When debating the pros and cons of economic regionalism, haven't we focused enough on trade in goods at the expense of … services? This article argues that regionalism is certainly a building block, not a stumbling block to a multilateral trading … appropriate relationship between multilateralism and regionalism in the context of services. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507469
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The Philippines in the Global Trading Environment: Looking Back and the Road Ahead
Austria, Myrna S. - 2002
The government has implemented substantial trade and investment policy reforms during the last two decades following a three-track approach involving unilateral, regional and multilateral modalities towards freer trade and investment. The reforms resulted to improvements in domestic resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429689
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East Asian Regional Cooperation: Approaches and Processes
Austria, Myrna S. - 2003
East Asia has been caught with regionalism in recent years. There has been a proliferation of bilateral and regional … address these questions. In particular, the paper examines the factors behind the growing sense of regionalism in the region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429704
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Monetary integration in East Africa
Rwakunda, Christian - 2004
automatically. Past experiences of African regionalism have shown that countries that participated in a monetary union were able to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457816
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Regional Trade Arrangements in Africa; Past Performance and the Way Forward
Yang, Yongzheng; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
Regional trade arrangements (RTAs) in Africa have been ineffective in promoting trade and foreign direct investment. Relatively high external trade barriers and low resource complementarity between member countries limit both intra- and extraregional trade. Small market size, poor transport...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768946
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Preferential Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region
Feridhanusetyawan, Tubagus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the Asia-Pacific region have proliferated rapidly over the past five years and are creating a complex web of intersecting bilateral and regional trade agreements. This paper describes the proliferation of these PTAs, discusses their characteristics and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599528
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Comesa and Sadc; Prospects and Challenges for Regional Trade Integration
Khandelwal, Padamja - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
Regional integration has been seen in Africa as a means of encouraging trade and securing economies of scale. This paper examines in detail the prospects and challenges for trade expansion in the two most prominent arrangements in eastern and southern Africa: the Common Market for Eastern and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604840
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The Building Block versus Stumbling Block Debate of Regionalism: From the Perspective of Service Trade Liberalization in Asia
Hamanaka, Shintaro - Office of Regional Economic Integration, Asian … - 2009
When debating the pros and cons of economic regionalism, haven't we focused enough on trade in goods at the expense of … services? This article argues that regionalism is certainly a building block, not a stumbling block to a multilateral trading … appropriate relationship between multilateralism and regionalism in the context of services. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980454