ASEAN’s initiatives for free trade in East Asia under AEC

Trade Arrangements and Evolving East Asian and Asia Pacific

The paper begins by noting that proposals involving significant developments in the regional tradearchitecture are being developed within regional processes that in some cases are simultaneouslypursuing other dimensions of regional economic integration: monetary and financial cooperation inthe case of ASEAN + 3, and the establishment of a common market in the case of ASEAN. At leastthree of the...

Trade and the Environment in East Asia:

This paper investigates how the environmental pollution in East Asian countries can be affected by trade of ‘dirty’ goods with Japan and the USA. By controlling for trade openness, the share of manufacturing in GDP, and the trade of pollution-intensive products with Japan and the USA, CO2 emissions are estimated for ten East Asian countries between 1988 and 2000. Our results show that increasin...

R&D Spillovers, Trade Integration And Expansion Of Trade Flows In East- West Asia And Pacific

Hypertension Guidelines: Timely New Initiatives from East Asia.

This issue of Pulse brings together reviews of new or pending guidelines for the management of hypertension from China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, covering the vast populations of East Asia [1–9] . This is a most timely and welcome initiative for many reasons. The first is that Asia is experiencing the ‘second-wave epidemic’, as it makes the transition from infectious diseases to chronic, non-com...

The Role of R&D in Trade Expansion: A Semi-parametric Gravity Specification for East and West Asia

In more recent years, it has become increasingly recognized that R&D (research and development) is a key driver of economic growth, a source of innovation and change, and as such stimulates improvements in productivity and economic competitiveness. It is closely associated with knowledge and flexibility, two factors that have gained new significance as a source of competitiveness in an increasi...