Spotlight Archives
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 143 - Modern Services Export Performances Among Emerging and Developed Asian Economies Dec 2014S. Nasir and K. Kalirajan examine the export performances of emerging and developed Asian economies in selected modern services—computer and information, business and professional, and telecommunications—using a stochastic frontier gravity model. Read more.
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 144 - ASEAN Commercial Policy: A Rare Case of Outward-Looking Regional IntegrationDec 2014H. Hill and J. Menon review ASEAN's progress into becoming a formal economic entity and assess its own brand of market-driven and institution-light regionalism in lieu of the ASEAN Economic Community. Read more.
- Pacific Economic Monitor - December 2014Dec 2014An analysis of 2014 budget outcomes and 2015 budget plans of ADB's Pacific developing member countries is the focus of this issue of the Pacific Economic Monitor. The policy briefs in this issue consider longer-run opportunities and challenges facing Pacific economies from changing external conditions. Download full report.
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 145 - The ASEAN Economy in the Regional Context: Opportunities, Challenges, and Policy OptionsDec 2014G. Capannelli discusses ASEAN's need of an ambitious plan beyond the ASEAN Economic Community 2015 to achieve its economic development aspirations. In particular, the paper suggests the need to adopt appropriate policy mix including structural reforms and moves to deepen regional integration. Read more.
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 146 - Trans-Pacific Partnership versus Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: Control of Membership and Agenda SettingDec 2014S. Hamanaka argues that the formation of regional integration frameworks can be seen as the dominant state's attempt to create a preferred regional framework in which it can exercise exclusive influence. Read more.
- Download conference materials: Asian RCI Roundtable ConferenceNov 2014Presentations from the recently concluded RCI roundtable conference held 17-18 November at the ADB headquarters, Manila, are available for download at the event page. Check out event photos on ARIC FB page. For more resources, visit RCI and productivity information portal.
- OREI launches AEIM November 201418 Nov 2014Asia is set to become increasingly integrated as governments bolster trade and transport connections and build regional institutions that can avoid the kind of dangers that have beset integration in other parts of the world, says the ADB's latest Asian Economic Integration Monitor. Download full report. Read news release.
- Watch on Livestream: ADB OREI's Asian Regional Cooperation and Integration Conference - The Future of Regional Cooperation and Integration and Productivity17 Nov 2014Selected sessions of the roundtable conference may be viewed live starting 9:15 a.m. (Manila time), 17 November. Check schedule of livestream. Access and watch livestream. Alternatively, you may follow online discussions thru ARIC Facebook or Twitter.
- RCI Publications List 1992-2014Nov 2014ADB's Regional Cooperation and Integration Community of Practice (RCI CoP) and the Asia Regional Integration Center (ARIC) release an updated bibliographic list of RCI publications. The list includes books, journals, working papers, reports, conference proceedings, and background papers. Download the RCI Publications List.
- RCI Chat November 2014Nov 2014ARIC releases November 2014 issue of its monthly newsletter, RCI Chat. It tracks regional cooperation and integration news in Asia focusing on cross-border infrastructure, trade and investment, money and finance, and regional public goods. This issue also features ADB OREI's upcoming event, the Asian RCI Roundtable Conference on 17-18 November.
