The countries comprising the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) are currently not very integrated into global value chains (GVCs), potentially missing out on important development opportunities. Accordingly, we explore high level options for promoting their integration. Given East Asia's...

Labour incomes depend on structural as well as politico-economic factors, because labour market policies partially remedy the financial market imperfections that make labour income shocks difficult to insure, and have different implications for labour and capital income. This paper illustrates...

Der aktuell wirkmächtige Ansatz der europäischen Integration ist durch die Gleichsetzung von Integration mit Vereinheitlichung geprägt. Die Autoren vertreten die Auffassung, dass diese zentralistische Wirtschaftssteuerung mittlerweile weit über das ökonomisch Erforderliche hinausgeht und...

This paper examines the evolution of the variety of Mexico’s export goods using disaggregated trade data. Both the econometric estimation analyses using the raw data and the one using an improved version of Feenstra and Kee's (2004, 2007) methodology proposed in this paper show that NAFTA...

Costa Rica has some concerns for the "middle income trap" stemming from her perceived weakening export competitiveness, intensifying competition in attracting FDI inflow; and apparent lack of innovation capabilities. Quantitative analyses on the impact of recent FTAs suggest only large firms...

This paper addresses the importance of establishing global value chains through the liberalization of trade in services. A database has revealed rather disconnected policy arrangements across APEC members in terms of service trade liberalization. While the economic benefits arising from...

To prepare an answer to the question of how a developing country can attract FDI, this paper explored the factors and policies that may help bring FDI into a developing country by utilizing an extended version of the knowledge-capital model. With a special focus on the effects of FTAs/EPAs...

This paper investigates how exchange rates affect the utilization of a free trade agreement (FTA) scheme in trading. Changes in exchange rates affect FTA utilization by two ways. The first way is by changing the excess profits gained by utilizing the FTA scheme, and the second way is by...

Regional integration or disintegration? / Adrian H. Hearn and Margaret Myers -- Latin American visions of trans-Pacific integration / Ariel C. Armony, Nashira P. Chávez, and Adrian H. Hearn -- Chinese visions of trans-Pacific integration / Jianmin Jin -- Contending visions : the TPP, the...

Machine generated contents note: Part I. The Antecedents of ASEAN Integration: 1. Our core arguments; 2. Mapping ASEAN integration; 3. Toward an ASEAN economic community; Part II. ASEAN Champions: Strategies for Enduring Success: 4. Preserving institutional legacy; 5. Leveraging market power; 6....

Regional economic cooperation in Northeast Asia: a Korean perspective / Lee Chang Jae -- Regional economic cooperation in Northeast Asia: a Chinese perspective / Zhang Jianping -- Regional economic cooperation in Northeast Asia: a Japanese perspective / Maeda Tadashi -- Regional economic...

The hypothesis about new type’s integration processes in the world economy is made, the essence and distinctive peculiarities of these processes are determined. By the proposed groups of parameters, the comparative analysis of international economic integration (IEI) within traditional...

This study focuses on the technological intensity of China's exports. It first introduces the method of decomposing gross exports by using the Asian international input–output tables. The empirical results indicate that the technological intensity of Chinese exports has been significantly...

This paper analyzes "institutional connectivity", or the degree of seamless trade in services centering on the distribution sector. Foreign equity participation in mode 3 (commercial presence) of trade in services and business firms’ investment performance has been studied closely. Net...