As countries turn more to regionalism as a means of forwarding co-operation on trade rules and other areas of policymaking, governments are increasingly incorporating rules on investment into regional trade agreements (RTAs). The Asia-Pacific region is no exception, with many innovative agreements that include disciplines on investment protection and non-discrimination. We analyse the economic consequences of including investment provisions in trade agreements by creating an index of the extensiveness of investment provisions in RTAs and then using that index in a gravity model framework of trade and investment. The results indicate that investment provisions are positively associated with trade and, to an even greater extent, investment flows. Further, we observe an insignificant effec...
...The APEC objective of "free and open trade in services by 2...
This paper traces the linking of trade and security, a characteristic of US foreign economic policy since 2001. It does so with reference to US economic policy in East Asia. We argue that the US has been unable to resist the temptation to link foreign economic and security policy. While there was evidence of the securitisation of economic globalisation in US policy from day one of the BUSH Administration, it was September 11 that firmed up this trend. Ever since, the BUSH government has been seeing globalisation not simply in neoliberal economic terms, but also through the lenses of the national security agenda of the United States. Economic globalisation has been linked to security policy. This trend is evident in East Asia, where the United States has put an emphasis on Free Trade Agr...
...At the same time, governments in countries that are contemplating a free trade agreement with..., Asian observers had increasingly evaluated APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) as a tool of A...
...APEC Cooperazione economica Asia-Pacifico . (Asia-Pacif... Paesi prioritari («Least Development Countries») e con sei programmi speciali in Paesi e regioni f...
Free trade agreements (FTA) are central as instruments of Swiss external trade politics, and high priority in the development of trade relations with countries of Eastern Asia. This article gives an overview of the current restructuring of the marketing area to Eastern Asia by intra- and trans-regional economic agreements.
... Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) und verfolgen damit offziell eine multilaterale A...
The Doha Development Agenda is an opportunity to re-balance trade rules in favor of developing countries while boosting the world economy. The Doha talks reportedly collapsed largely because of disagreements over agriculture, but clearly that is not the whole story. Indeed, some rich countries were not ready to accept larger tariff cuts or bigger reductions in trade-distorting domestic subsidies for farm products. The alternative to a Doha agreement is bleak. There is a danger that the WTO will proceed by litigation instead of legislation, that dispute settlement will take the place of rule-making. In developed countries and in the most advanced developing countries, politicians have a responsibility to start selling the benefits of Doha to voters. The least developed countries, meanwhi...
..., proposals are already being made for an "APEC only" Free Trade Agreement (FTAAP), given Doha's i...
...APEC Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation . Anrainerstaat...HIPC Heavily Indebted Poor Countries . Initiative des IWF und der Weltbank zur Entschul...
Russia's accession to the WTO next year will set the stage for a more active dialogue with the EU on deeper integration and trade liberalisation. In this respect the formation of a FTA with the EU is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for engaging Russia into an active dialogue on a broad range of political and economic issues. Other modalities of trade liberalisation, including regional cooperation and greater openness to investment would also need to be addressed. The delays in drawing up a new comprehensive framework of EU-Russia cooperation come at a time when the need for a renewed framework is greater than ever, which calls for the speedy launching of talks on the creation of a new comprehensive PCA in the near future.
... elimination of debts to Western countries. Russia has ceased to be a debtor nation, and can ... the Asia-Pasific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Hanoi on November 20 2006, Russia final...
...APEC Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation . Conférence ... Heavily indebted poor countries . Processus . de Kimberley . Comité de consultat...
This article describes the transition to the new commercial-political bilateralism in Eastern Asia since the "Asia crisis" and places these into the context of the Japanese regionalization strategy.
... von ihrer bisherigen WTO-, ASEAN- und APEC-orientierten Politik. Laut HUANG (2003) belief sic... services between ASEAN countries. For this to be possible, the ASEAN countries need...
... d'initiatives semblables en Asie (ASEAN, APEC, ASEM) et en Afrique (OUA et SADC). On a en outre ... réfugiés HIPC Heavily Indebted Poor Countries. Initiative du Fonds monétaire et de la Banque mo...
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