Building 21st Century Enterprises

P O LI C Y IN SI G H T N o . 5 6 21 st Century Regionalism : Filling the gap between 21 st century trade and 20 th century trade rules

In a nutshell, 21st century regionalism is not primarily about preferential market access as was the case for 20th century regionalism; it is about disciplines that underpin the tradeinvestment-service nexus. This means that 21st century regionalism is driven by a different set of political economy forces; the basic bargain is “foreign factories for domestic reforms” – not “exchange of market a...

Compressed Development: Global value chains, multinational enterprises and human resource development in 21st century Asia

The classical Late Development model at the heart of the ‘‘new competitive order’’ in Asia since the 1960s has been challenged by a new Compressed Development approach, which, developing on the global value chain framework, proposes a new interpretation of international production, trade and competition in goods and services. This paper provides a first analysis of the human resource developmen...

E-learning in School Education in the Coming 10 Years for Developing 21st Century Skills: Critical Research Issues and Policy Implications

One of the curriculum goals of e-learning in school education is to develop learners for 21st century skills through their daily learning activities. This paper aims to discuss the research issues and policy implications critical for achieving such a curriculum goal. A review of literature in the related fields indicates that K-12 schools should take advantage of e-learning to maximize learning...

Session I: Building A Genetic System For The 21st Century

21st Century Regionalism: Filling the gap between 21st century trade and 20th century trade rules

This paper weaves several sets of facts into an argument that: 1) today’s trade is radically more complex, involving a “trade-investment-service nexus”, 2) this 21 st century trade demanded deeper disciplines which were supplied by “21 st century regionalism” while the WTO was otherwise occupied, and 3) 21 st century regionalism has quite different implications for the world trading system than...