Northeast Asia trip bolsters ongoing scientific cooperation

Prospects for Economic Cooperation in Northeast Asia

In contrast to developments in other world regions, efforts to institutionalize regional economic cooperation in East Asia have been weak. Though Southeast Asian economies have taken action toward trade liberalization (ASEAN Free Trade Area), the major economies of the region such as China, Japan and Korea have not been part of any formal trade groupings until recently. Ongoing economic coopera...

Economic Cooperation of Northeast Asia and Industrial Structuring

Using transition matrices of RCA indices for 20-year trade data of three countries (China, Japan and Korea) by 3-SITC digit level, this paper investigates long-run pattern of comparative advantage of each country to the world market and each partner countries. In general it is shown that the main issued faced under economic cooperation is continuous surplus with China but deficit with Japan of ...

Northeast Asia Ripe for Integration

Economic Cooperation in Asia

During the past five decades developing countries in Asia have provided the most persuasive and credible story as to how poor countries can progress and bring about prosperity for their downtrodden people. Beginning with Japan, followed by NICs particularly Korea, ASEAN countries and now China, these countries have not only doubled or quadrupled per capita incomes in a record time but also sign...

Scientific Cooperation

The notion of ‘appropriate technology’ (AT) is universally seen as emanating from the writing and activities of the economist Fritz Schumacher. In fact, the term that Schumacher himself used was ‘intermediate technology’ and derived from visits he paid to India and Burma in the late 1950s and early 1960s in his capacity as senior economist to the British National Coal Board, invited to advise t...