The future creation of a region-wide economic agreement in Asia has become the hot issue among trade policymakers in the region. The APEC 2010 Summit Statement clearly states that the members should pursue a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP), building on various ongoing regional...

This report assesses the quality of Lao PDR’s trade statistics by comparing Lao PDR’s export/import data with its trade partners’ import/export data (mirror data). While the mirror technique is constrained by the fact that partners’ data also can have some problems, it is a useful method...

The last decade has seen a significant increase in the exports of several Latin American and Caribbean countries to destinations within and beyond the region. The increase in trade links has not, however, been accompanied by a proportional increase in reciprocal investments among the trading...

En el último decenio se verifica un significativo incremento de las exportaciones de varios países de América Latina y el Caribe, hacia destinos dentro y fuera de la región. Dicho incremento de los vínculos comerciales no ha estado acompañado, sin embargo, de un aumento proporcional en las...

There seems to be a general consensus that trade between East Asia and South America has been increasingly important. However, we know little about the actual dynamic development of this interregional trade. This paper examines whether the trend of East Asia-South America trade is a general...

Parece existir un consenso generalizado en cuanto a que el comercio entre Asia Oriental y América del Sur ha ido cobrando cada vez más importancia. Sin embargo, es poco lo que sabemos sobre la evolución dinámica real de este comercio interregional. En este trabajo se examina si la tendencia...

There seems to be a general consensus that trade between East Asia and South America has been increasingly important. However, we know little about the actual dynamic development of this interregional trade. This paper examines whether the trend of East Asia-South America trade is a general...

A common view holds that the trend toward Asian financial regionalism is a relatively new phenomenon that became significant after the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98. This paper challenges this view by exploring and analyzing financial regionalist projects in Asia throughout the 1990s. As...

Despite a commonplace view that Asian regionalism lacks institutions, Asia, in fact, is full of regional institutions and frameworks in various forms. The rise and fall of regional institutions in Asia is an extremely dynamic process. Using a game theory approach, this paper hypothesizes that...