Trade and investment liberalisation in APEC
Subtitle: economic and energy sector impacts
By: authors, Karen Schneider ... [et al.].
Contributors: Schneider, Karen.
Series: ABARE research report ;; 2000.2
Publisher: Published by ABARE for the APEC Energy Working Group
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Free trade -- Asia.; Free trade -- Pacific Area.; Investments -- Asia.; Investments -- Pacific Area.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-123).
"May 2000."
"APEC#00-RE-01.1"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction; title: Objectives and structure of the study; title: 2 The APEC trade and investment liberalisation agenda; title: The APEC commitment; title: Benefits of trade liberalisation; title: Benefits of investment liberalisation; title: Impacts of APEC's 'open regionalism'; title: 3 Trade in APEC; title: Trade flows in APEC; title: Trade liberalisation in APEC; title: Quantifying barriers to trade in APEC; title: 4 Foreign direct investment in APEC; title: Foreign direct investment flows in APEC; title: Investment liberalisation in APEC; title: Impediments to foreign direct investment in APEC; title: Quantifying barriers to foreign direct investment in APEC; title: 5 Analytical framework; title: Global Trade and Environment Model; title: Regional and sectoral aggregation; title: Developing a reference case; title: Implementing policy simulations; title: Interpreting results; title: 6 Impacts of APEC trade liberalisation; title: Reference case projections; title: Simulation results; title: Sensitivity of results to the timing of liberalisation; title: Sensitivity of results to economic growth assumptions; title: 7 Impacts of APEC trade liberalisation on individual economies; title: Factors influencing the energy impacts of liberalisation; title: Australia; title: Canada; title: Chile; title: China; title: Hong Kong, China; title: Indonesia; title: Japan; title: Korea; title: Malaysia; title: Mexico; title: New Zealand; title: The Philippines; title: Singapore; title: Chinese Taipei; title: Thailand; title: United States; title: Vietnam; title: 8 Impacts of APEC investment liberalisation; title: Simulating investment liberalisation; title: Simulation results; title: Implications for the energy sector; title: 9 Conclusions; title: Appendixes; title: A Estimated trade barriers at 2000; title: B Foreign direct investment restrictiveness indexes for selected APEC economies and sectors; title: C The Global Trade and Environment Model; title: D Estimating the productivity gains from trade liberalisation.