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1. The Politics and the Economics of Integration in Asia and the Pacific

   Edited by Shiro Armstrong

   Series: PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series)

   The shape of economic integration in the global and regional economies - and the extent to which goods, services and factors of production move more or less freely across borders - depends not only upon underlying economic conditions but also upon politics. Whether integration is market-led, as has...

   Published November 2nd 2011 by Routledge
2. Multinational Corporations and the Emerging Network Economy in Asia and the Pacific

   Edited by Juan J. Palacios

   Series: PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series)

   Multinational Corporations and the Emerging Network Economy in Asia and the Pacific delves into the ongoing rise of a global economy anchored in a web of inter-firm production networks and the role played by multinational corporations in the process. It considers the strategies and business models...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
3. Challenges to the Global Trading System

   Adjustment to Globalization in the Asia-Pacific Region

   Edited by Sumner La Croix, Peter Petri

   Series: PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series)

   International trade continues to expand robustly in East Asia and elsewhere, but global trade negotiations have collapsed and globalization is widely criticized. In this book, the participants of the thirtieth Pacific Trade and Development Conference—including the then-Director General of the...

   Published March 17th 2011 by Routledge
4. International Institutions and Economic Development in Asia

   Edited by Thanh Tri Vo

   Series: PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series)

   Are international and Asian regional institutions serving the development goals of Asian and Pacific Economies as well they should? The global economy, led by the Asia Pacific region, has undergone immense change and growth. Have the existing institutions and arrangements been able to keep pace...

   Published November 8th 2010 by Routledge
5. Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order

   Edited by Christopher Findlay, Hadi Soesastro

   Series: PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series)

   Relationships and alignments among the nations of the world’s most populous and productive region, the Asia Pacific, are in flux. Current global political, economic and security uncertainty, heightened by 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terror, has fuelled a reassessment by many Asia Pacific nations...

   Published November 23rd 2005 by Routledge
6. Competition Policy in East Asia

   Edited by Erlinda Medalla

   Series: PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series)

   Competition Policy in East Asia clarifies the key issues and provides a framework for understanding competition policy, looking in-depth at a number of regulated sectors for additional perspectives.Until two or three decades ago, competition and consumer protection policies were the preserve of the...

   Published April 24th 2005 by Routledge
7. The New Economy in East Asia and the Pacific

   Edited by Peter Drysdale

   Series: PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series)

   This book sets out the problems of measuring the effects of technological change on economic progress by using the internet in the Asia-Pacific region as a case study. Corporate and industry experience, including changing business organization and new regulatory issues are explored as well as...

   Published December 3rd 2003 by Routledge
8. Globalization and the Asia Pacific Economy

   Edited by Kyung Tae Lee

   Series: PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series)

   This book looks at globalisation in historical perspective and *examines the experience of East Asian economies during the financial crisis *provides an account of globalisation through the activities of Japanese multinational enterprises *deals with the social consequences of exposure to the...

   Published June 12th 2002 by Routledge
9. Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

   Challenges and Tasks for the Twenty First Century

   Edited by Ippei Yamazawa

   Series: PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series)

   This book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive account of the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) organisation and examines the challenges APEC now faces in the new century. Subjects covered include:* the history of APEC* APEC and the latest WTO round* case-studies of countries in...

   Published October 4th 2000 by Routledge
10. Asia-Pacific Financial Deregulation

    Edited by Gordon De Brouwer, Wisarn Pupphavesa

    Series: PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series)

    Recent events in East Asia have highlighted the risks of volatility and contagion in a financially integrated world. Countries in the region had been at the forefront of the movement towards increased integration but the crisis that struck Thailand in July 1997, and the rapidity with which it...

    Published September 22nd 1999 by Routledge