East Asia integrates
Subtitle: a trade policy agenda for shared growth
By: Kathie Krumm and Homi Kharas, editors
Contributors: Krumm, Kathie L., 1949-; Kharas, Homi J., 1954-
Series: Trade and development series
Publisher: A copublication of the World Bank and Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, DC; [New York?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: World Trade Organization -- China; Regionalism -- East Asia; East Asia -- Commercial policy; East Asia -- Commerce; East Asia -- Economic integration; East Asia -- Economic conditions
Description: Emerging East Asian economies have seen their share of world exports more than triple during the past quarter-century, and intraregional trade has driven this growth. Broad measures of development in East Asia have improved at the same headlong pace. Why push further integration now? Two economic events of historic proportions provide the context: strategic thinking of development in the region following the East Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 and the accession of China to the World Trade Organization. Policymakers interested in a stable, prosperous region are concerned by mildly rising ine.
Notes: Includes papers presented at various seminars and workshops throughout East Asia

Includes bibliographical references and index