Latin America and Asia Pacific trade and investment relations at a time of international financial crisis
By: Mikio Kuwayama, José Durán Lima, Marcelo LaFleur
Contributors: Durán Lima, José Elías; LaFleur, Marcelo; United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. División de Comercio Internacional e Integración
Series: Serie comercio internacional -- 97; Serie Comercio internacional (Santiago, Chile) -- 97.
Publisher: Naciones Unidas, CEPAL
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Santiago, Chile
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9789211217254
Subjects: Foreign economic relations; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Forum for East Asia Latin America Cooperation
Description: Emerging economies in Asia and Latin America have increased their contributions to world production, finance, and trade in the past decades. In doing so, the two regions have deepened their economic ties with significant implications for the recovery of their respective economies. In this paper we discuss the impact of the crisis on the commercial patterns inside and outside the Forum for East Asia Latin American Cooperation (FEALAC) bloc. We describe the FEALAC economy and identify existing trade and investment structures, and find important structural shortcomings such as a high dependence on inter-industry trade between Asia and Latin America. We argue that this is also an opportunity for greater integration into bi-regional value-added chains and that trade and cooperation between the two regions can be an effective means to counterbalance the adverse effects of the current financial turmoil.
Notes: "July 2010."

"Division of International Trade and Integration."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-82).

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