This paper addresses two central questions for Asia and the world: (1) What is the purpose of Asian regional policy … paper examines the potential coverage and content of such policy coordination, what is meant by Asia in this context, and … how Asia fits in with global policy coordination processes. I address three related aspects of Asian regional policy …

integration and openness. The main policy findings are that Asia's future standing in an increasingly multi-centered world economy … freefall at the world level, there emerged a second order response at the level of regional institutional building … between helping themselves and helping the global economy. Asia is striving for modes of regional cooperation that are, on …

Is intraregional trade in Asia really integrating? It is not easy to answer this ostensibly simple question. There are … agreements [FTAs]), the number of signed FTAs in Asia is growing but the relation between trade interdependence and the signing …

This paper constitutes a tour d'horizon relating to institutional transparency in the WTO decision and judicial making …. The paper critically reviews the most topical challenges for the internal and external transparency of the international … organization regulating global trade and puts forward several proposal for improvement. Transparency is inextricably linked with …

Some initiatives in the ongoing debate on improving transparency and notifications as a part of talks on WTO reform … seem to have been based on the false belief that compliance with notification requirements could be induced through threat …

In its less than 20 years of existence, the WTO has managed to draw public attention. Transparency in the WTO decision … decision-making. This paper is intended to posit the WTO within the current debates about more institutional transparency in … that input and output transparency of the WTO could be further enhanced by increased participation of non …

that transparency and co-operation are significant and robust factors in increasing trade. It also reinforces the view that …