Challenges and opportunities for trade and financial integration in Asia and the Pacific
Series: Studies in trade and investment -- 67; ESCAP studies in trade and investment -- 67.
Publisher: United Nations ESCAP
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9789211206685
Subjects: Commercial policy; Commerce; Economic integration
Description: Brings together chapters that explore various aspects of trade and financial integration in Asia and the Pacific, the reasons for the lack of it, and potential benefits of strengthening such integration. The book focuses on the exploration of challenges and opportunities that exist in intraregional trade in goods, integration in services trade, availability of trade finance as well as inflows of portfolio investments. The papers have been written by researchers who have applied their extensive expertise and analytical skills to studying the impacts of regional trade liberalization and motivation for financial flows.
Notes: "This publication is the third volume associated with the Macao Regional Knowledge Hub (MARKHUB), an ESCAP project ..."--Page iii.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Crisis Reinforces Need for Stronger Trade and Financial Integration in Asia and the Pacific / Mia Mikic and Ravi Ratnayake; title: Exploring the Impacts of Trade Liberalization in Asia and the Pacific / Anna Strutt and Mia Mikic; title: Assessing the Potential for Growth of Intra-Regional Trade in South Asia / Deepika Wadhwa; title: European Union-India Bilateral Free Trade Agreement: Potential Implications for the Excluded Low-Income Economies in Asia and Africa / Selim Raihan; title: What Behind-the-Border Reforms in Services and Investment are Best Done Through Trade Agreements? / Philippa Dee; title: The Global Crisis: A Wake-Up Call for Trade Finance Capacity Building in Emerging Asia / Yann Duval and Wei Liu; title: Geographical Trade Structure and Patterns of International Portfolio Investment - the Case of Australia / Kevin Daly and Anil Mishra; title: Time-Zone Arbitrage in United States Mutual Funds: Damaging to Financial Integration between the US, Asia and Europe? / Katelyn Rae Donnelly and Edward Tower.