domestic products (GDPs) account for 36 percent of world GDP and whose mutual trade accounts for approximately 24 percent of … world trade. As for most proposed free trade agreements (FTAs), trade economists have provided ex ante computable general …. With China now having formed 12 FTAs and negotiating five new ones (including a sixteen member Asia-Pacific FTA), the …

percent of the global population will be living in Asia, and one in four will be over 60 years of age. As the COVID-19 … essential health products and services all across the globe. In Asia-Pacific, over the last few decades, countries have focussed …

, producing gains nearly as large as a region-wide Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific. Several pathways to a consolidated …

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 …

The paper addresses preferential trade agreements in Asia and the Pacific with the objective of identifying their … characteristics which can be useful in assessing the effects of their implementation. The paper relies mostly on the Asia … important aspects of preferential trade in Asia and the Pacific: (a) the rapid proliferation of preferential trade and revealed …