Asia Regional Integration Center
Tracking Asian Integration
- 30Sep2014
India’s Iconic IT Industry: A 21st Century Tale Beyond the Numbers
The Information Technology (IT) and IT-enabled Services (ITeS) industry in India is the envy of many a nation.
- 22Sep2014
Promoting regional development in a world of global production networks and global value chains
The world economy is now characterized by increasingly interdependent economic activities organized through cross-border value chains and production networks.
- 17Sep2014
Aboard the Global Value Chain (GVC) express: Implications for small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
When one thinks of the GVC concept, a flux of multinational companies involved in this global process comes to mind—whether it is Nutella’s global sourcing of our favorite Hazelnut spread...
- 8Sep2014
Paradigm shift: business as development partners through corporate social responsibility
Unilever partners with UNICEF and other agencies in tackling the lack of sanitation facilities in Ghana.
- 14Aug2014
What is holding back trade-driven growth in fragile states?
On June 20, 2014, leadership of the g7+ group of fragile states passed from Timor-Leste’s Emilia Pires to Sierra Leone’s Keifala Marrah.
- 29Jul2014
Special economic zones (SEZs): A tool for investment, trade, and development
Shenzhen was a small fishing village in the People's Republic of China (PRC) with only 20,000 residents and no industrial base more than 30 years ago.
- 11Jul2014
Beggaring-thy-neighbour in the Asia Pacific
Resort to protectionism has a particular significance to developing countries in the Asia Pacific region given their attachment to export-led growth strategies.
- 30Jun2014
The new economy: A peek at Armenia
The development of information and communication technology (ICT) and the resulting formation of the “new economy” have revolutionized the way we live and conduct our day-to-day business.
- 18Jun2014
Contract farming and high value chains: A pathway to inclusive growth?
Can contract farming link farmers to high value chains and provide a road for poverty alleviation? Countries from the developing world increasingly think so.
- 7May2014
Bangladesh needs to export more to neighboring markets
A growing convergence between agricultural and non-agricultural wages is observed in recent years in Bangladesh.