Asia Regional Integration Center
Tracking Asian Integration
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- 23Mar2021
Making RCEP successful through business-friendly rules of origin
By determining the origin of a product, rules of origin are the plumbing of a free trade agreement. Only goods originating in the RCEP region will be granted duty free or reduced rate of duty when exported to regional partners.
23Mar2021Despite the pandemic, remittances have kept flowing home to Asia’s families
Many Asian migrant workers seem to have withstood the waves of economic hardships, sending home record amounts of money in months following a large slump between April and May 2020.
17Dec2020Asia’s regional financing woes are exposed during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic, with its twin health and economic crises, has exposed the vulnerabilities in this financing arrangement. The rapid withdrawal of capital from Asia in the early months of the outbreak is a reminder of the region’s continued dependence on non-resident capital.
20Nov2020RCEP is a gargantuan trade deal but will economies be able to make the most of it?
Around $164 billion, a majority of the expected income gains from RCEP, are forecast to accrue to Asia, and in particular the People’s Republic of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea – the so called “plus three countries,” which are estimated to gain the lion’s share of the income gains at $156 billion.
4Nov2020In Central Asia, COVID-19 response demands improved regional cooperation
Multilateral financial institutions have been quick to respond but they do not operate in a vacuum. They essentially act within the international economic system to boost international development efforts.
29Oct2020Can swapping debt for climate action help with pandemic recovery?
COVID-19 is putting public budgets across the world under strain and pushing countries – many of which are highly climate vulnerable - further into debt