International economics

In the 26 years since market-oriented reforms were introduced, China has emerged onto the world stage as a major economic presence, particularly since her accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001.

The globalization of financial markets has led to an integrated world market.

This book brings together a collection of papers that Robert M Stern and his co-authors have written in recent years.

This book consists of 20 short essays on different dimensions of international economic policy with specific (though not exclusive) focus on Asia.

This book is a compendium of papers on various new movements that emerged after the Asian financial crisis, which lead to Asia becoming the enhanced growth center of the world.

This timely book reviews how South Asia is rising to the challenge of globalization.

The effects of US secondary sanctions are broad and are often designed to cripple the target country's economy and currency.

This book presents a broad descriptive and quantitative evaluation of industrial policies in four East Asian economies - Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore - with a special focus on Singapore.

Why do some countries get rich and other countries don't?

Regulations and enforcement decisions that at first appear to have only a domestic impact can have substantial spillover effects on other nations' economies.

Exchange rate economics is an important field of investigation for academics, professionals and policy-makers.

Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have proliferated in East Asia as regional economies rush to catch up with the rest of the world - but what difference do they make?

Singapore's rapid evolution from a modest trading post under colonial rule into a prosperous, self-confident nation is one of the notable success stories of the second half of the 20th century.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of what Asian industrial clusters might teach us.

Due to their sheer size and stake in the global economy, China and India have long been identified as the two giant economies of Asia.

As China rises to become the world's largest economy, half a billion rural villagers are expected to become urban residents in the coming decades.

The author of this book is the original proponent of China's exchange rate system reform announced in 2005.

Containing ten quality chapters on China's rural reforms and agricultural development, this first volume from the Series on Developing China: Translated Research from China emphasizes the importance of countryside, agriculture and the role of peasants in China's economy.

This book examines an important economic development in East Asia during the first decade of the 21st century.

This book discusses China's integration into the world economy, drawing on papers previously written by the editor.

The recent global financial crisis has caused massive upheavals worldwide.

The ten countries in the ASEAN region account for approximately 5% of world gross domestic product and 8% of world population and represent the most diverse group of nations in terms of the level of prosperity, political system, culture, language, and history.

Singapore, a small Southeast Asian country with limited resources, transformed itself from a trading post to a successful, cosmopolitan nation with one of the most impressive growth rates in the world.

The volume represents a collection of papers that examine important topical themes related to the rise of China and Asia in the global economy.

Intra-regional trade has been rising rapidly, especially after China's accession to the WTO in 2001.

Alan Deardorff was 65 years old on June 6, 2009.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the effects that foreign direct investment into China has had on the productivity, exporting activity, and innovation of Chinese domestic firms, as well as on the nation's labor markets.

This book is a collection of invited and selected papers from the Singapore Economic Policy Forum 2009 around a central theme, Challenges Facing Singapore in the Post-Crisis Era and Policy Responses.

It is an appropriate time to rethink the relationship between trade regionalism and multilateralism in the Asian context as we witness the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) in Asia.

A recent study by the Asian Development Bank notes that by 2050, Asia's per capita income would rise six-fold to reach Europe's levels today, one of many indications of Asia's "e;re-emergence"e;.

At the end of the 1980s, a tri-polar world comprising the US, EU and Japan emerged.

Acting as a Sorcerer's Apprentice, the West incorporated 1.

The Asia-Pacific region has emerged as a dominant player in trade and will continue to be an influential pole of world trade and economics, with the center of gravity shifting to this region.

International political economy (IPE) is a highly complex discipline, drawing not only from the fields of politics and economics, but also those as varied as philosophy, history and anthropology.

Quantitative Analysis of Newly Evolving Patterns of International Trade offers a variety of perspectives on new forms and developments of international trade and related activities for Japan, the United States, China, and some other important trading countries, to develop new methods and data for measuring the factor contents of emerging new modes of international trade.

The European Union (EU) has now become the largest trade partner of China.

The two most topical issues in current financial markets deal with the causes of the recent financial crisis and the means to prevent future crises.

This book presents a state-of-the-art evaluation of the benefits and costs of behind-the-border services reform.

This volume is a collection of papers that apply general equilibrium theory in order to obtain policy relevant insights on topical issues of international trade and migration.

This volume is a report by leading international economic experts on China's economic priorities in the coming years.

Asian Economic Systems provides readers with a crisp analytic framework, concepts and narrative highlighting contemporary Asia's systemic diversity.

Organizations such as ASEAN and EU were formed to promote economic growth, social progress and cultural development among their members.

This book examines the need for greater East Asian cooperation and the challenges to this grand endeavor.

Touted as one of the main engineers of Singapore's economic growth, Dr Goh's collection of writings and speeches seek to shed light on the various challenges that China faced in the early 90s.

Two Asias provides a fresh perspective on the Asia's disparate economic prospects in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis and the Great Recession.

This book is a collection of papers presented in the conference held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in September 2010, that examines the role of macroprudential regulation in the financial industry.