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Record Nr.

UNINA9910258349403321

Titolo

Asian economic integration in an era of global uncertainty / / edited by Shiro Armstrong and Tom Westland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, Australia : , : Australian National University Press, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-76046-176-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series/ PAFTAD

Disciplina

337.15

Soggetti

Asia Economic integration

Asia Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Overview and issues / Shiro Armstrong and Tom Westland -- Asian economic integration : the state of play / Mari Pangestu and Shiro Armstrong -- The global setting for Asian economic integration / Pascal Lam -- Decoupling Asia revisited / Cyn-Young Park -- Financial liberalisation and trade : an examination of moving up value chains in the Asia-Pacific region / Wendy Dobson and Tom Westland -- Evolution of production networks in the Asia-Pacific region : a vision in value-added and employment dimensions / Hubert Escaith, Satoshi Inomata and Sébastien Miroudot -- The ASEAN Economic Community and the East Asian agenda / Somkiat Tangkitvanich and Saowaruj Rattanakhamfu -- India's Asian trade strategy / Dhiraj Nayyar -- East Asia's transformation and regional architecture / Ponciano Intal, Jr -- Evaluation of regional economic integration in East Asia / Shen Minghui.

Sommario/riassunto

The Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) conference series has been at the forefront of analysing challenges facing the economies of East Asia and the Pacific since its first meeting in Tokyo in January 1968. The book examined the state of play in Asian economic integration, the region's future, and the role it might play in defending the global system that has underwritten its historic rise. Asia has the potential to stand as a bulwark against the dual threats of North



Atlantic protectionism and slowing trade growth, but collective leadership will be needed regionally and difficult domestic reforms will be required in each country.

The Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) conference series has been at the forefront of analysing challenges facing the economies of East Asia and the Pacific since its first meeting in Tokyo in January 1968. The 38th PAFTAD conference met at a key time to consider international economic integration. Earlier in the year, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and the United States elected Donald Trump as their next president on the back of an inward-looking 'America First' promise. Brexit and President Trump represent a growing, and worrying, trend towards protectionism in the North Atlantic countries that have led the process of globalisation since the end of the Second World War. The chapters in the volume describe the state of play in Asian economic integration but, more importantly, look forward to the region's future, and the role it might play in defending the global system that has underwritten its historic rise. Asia has the potential to stand as a bulwark against the dual threats of North Atlantic protectionism and slowing trade growth, but collective leadership will be needed regionally and difficult domestic reforms will be required in each country.