In a supply-constrained region like Asia, promoting exports has always been a challenge particularly at a time when Asia’s trade has been severely affected by lack of external demand. This study argues that price barriers have now taken a new shape which may likely to generate differential impacts on trade flows. The size and shape of price barriers would be higher if NTBs, applied by the count...

The editors of this book inviting this contribution ask a provocative question: does North America exist at all as a meaningful political entity, economic region, cultural idea or community? This chapter deals with this question by looking into the experiences of those women that have contested the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA thereafter) as a violent and far from sustainable proj...

INTRODUCTION Integration is a phenomenon that has been gaining ground the world over. It can be seen in the Americas in the forms of a customs unions like MERCOSUR (South America) or a free trade area like NAFTA (North America), a common market in Europe with the EU, and regional cooperation in Asia with ASEAN. It comes as no surprise therefore that Africa would be on the verge of the developme...

The current study aims to analyze the factors influencing ASEAN economic growth and integration. Specifically, variables of inter-regional trade, human resource development, corruption were investigated in six lower-middle-income countries from 1996 2019 through Driscoll Kraay’s, Newey West’s, Dumitrescu Hurlin’s as causal analysis. study’s results found that capital had an impact 0.248%, labor...

This paper examines the relationship between openness and within-country regional inequality across 28 countries over the period 1975-2005, paying special attention to whether increases in global trade affect the developed and developing world differently. Using a combination of static and dynamic panel data analysis, it is found that while increases in trade per se do not lead to greater terri...

This paper focuses attention' on development strategies of peripheral areas. In particular, it addresses the issue of integration effects for (internal) border regions after the completion of the internal European market. After a review of recent EC policies, it is claimed that there is an urgent need for designing and evaluating active development strategies for former internal border areas. A...

the millennium development goals (mdgs) are eight international development goals and 21 targets that all countries have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. central asian countries have shown uneven progress in achieving these goals. this paper conducts a comparative study of the impact of economic integration of the regional countries into the world economy on uneven progress of central asian ...

the least developed and developing countries constitute two third of the members the world trade organizations (wto). these groups of countries have different views and concerns on international trade issues. as far as development is concerned, they have different needs and their economic system is often weak and fragile and therefore, they need extra protection. the wto agreements contain spec...

National security depends on soft power, the ability of a country to generate and use its economic power and to project its national values. It also depends on long-term factors that contribute to economic growth and increase the total resources base available not only for defense but to provide economic security in the form of income and business opportunities for individuals. The economic iss...