Spotlight Archives
- OREI launches AEIM April 2014Apr 2014Iwan J. Azis, Head of ADB's Office of Regional Economic Integration (OREI), said closer cooperation and dialogue among Asia's policymakers are needed to better respond to future economic shocks. At a seminar held at the Asian Institute of Management, Azis also stressed that innovative disaster risk financing can strengthen the region's financial resilience to natural disasters. Full report | News Release
- RCI Seminar and Launch of the Asian Economic Integration Monitor (AEIM) April 2014 IssueApr 2014ADB and the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) on 22 April at the Fuller Hall, AIM, Makati City jointly sponsored the seminar on regional cooperation and integration, where the AEIM April 2014 issue was also be launched. Go to the official event page. Download program.
- ADB Policy Brief No. 13 - Going Global: Can the People's Republic of China Lead the Recovery in FDI flows?Apr 2014Following the 2008/09 global financial crisis, weaker risk appetite of investors from the United States (US) and Europe led the world to increasingly look towards emerging economies such as the People's Republic of China (PRC) to revive investment flows. M. Zhou and X. Yao explore the characteristics of FDI flows from the PRC and their role in driving the recovery of global FDI flows. Read more.
- The End of Grand Expectations: Monetary and Financial Integration After the Crisis in EuropeApr 2014Notwithstanding potential benefits of monetary and financial integration in facilitating intra-regional trade, the financial crisis in Europe has exposed weaknesses in the approach taken in the eurozone. H. Dieter examines the several aspects of monetary and financial integration. Read more.
- Enlargement of Economic Framework in Southeast Asia and Trade Flows in the Lao People's Democratic RepublicApr 2014Using an unbalanced panel dataset of bilateral exports from 1992 to 2009, S. Suvannaphakdy, H. Tang, and A. DiCaprio assessed the potential trade impacts of the expansion of ASEAN to ASEAN+3 and ASEAN+6 on the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). Read more.
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 128 - The Investment Version of the Asian Noodle Bowl: The Proliferation of International Investment AgreementsApril 2014There has been an extensive amount of literature on the noodle bowl of agreements in Asia focusing on trade in goods, but little emphasis on international investment treaties (IIAs). In this paper, J. Chaisse and S. Hamanaka provide a detailed account of recent advances in Asian investment rule-making and IIA rules. Read more.
- ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 129 - Why Do Countries Enter into Preferential Agreements on Trade in Services? Assessing the Potential for Negotiated Regulatory Convergence in Asian Services MarketApril 2014P. Sauve and A. Shingal examine the potential for negotiated regulatory convergence in Asian services markets using the World Bank database on the restrictiveness of domestic services regimes. Read more.
- ADB Policy Brief No. 11 - Multilateralization of Preferences versus Reciprocity: Relative Impacts of East Asian FTAs When Utilization is IncompleteApril 2014Previous studies on the impacts of free trade agreements (FTAs) in East Asia have assumed full utilization of preferences. The reality is that actual uptake is particularly low in East Asia. In this brief, J. Menon reports the results of impacts using more realistic utilization rates. Read more.
- ADB Policy Brief No. 12 - Economic Turbulence and the Indonesian EconomyApril 2014In this policy brief, B.P.S. Brodjonegoro and Y. Abimanyu explore the reasons behind Indonesian economy's resilience during the most recent crisis emanating from the Eurozone. Read more.
- ADB Policy Brief No. 6 - Deepening India's Shallow Export BasketMar 2014Though India has concluded a number of FTAs already, there is little evidence that these have boosted trade to a significant degree. Would an FTA with the PRC be any different? K. Chaturvedi suggests that the nature of the bilateral relationship opens the door for an FTA to spur much-needed domestic reform that can unlock India’s trade potential. Read more.
