As the chances of a successful conclusion to the Doha Round of trade liberalization under the WTO become increasingly problematic, so the pace of negotiating local free trade agreements (FTAs) is increasing. According to the WTO report, countries in the Asia-Pacific region are “consolidating their drive towards regionalism at an accelerated pace”. After the trade agreements between China an...

The electric sector is one of the main emitters greenhouse gases that lead to exacerbating global warming. There a lack consensus in literature regarding renewable energy (RE) determinants and their impacts on power sector. Using panel fully modified OLS model, we examine effect research development, human development index, technological innovation, other factors share RE sources electricity g...

Promoting sport participation among people with disabilities is often counted as one of the policy priorities national government well a main activity for development initiatives to aid Global South. However, little known about specific systems, policy, history, and plans disability promotion understood by administrators in The current study focused on Association Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN...

Southeast Asia has the weakest normative frameworks for refugee protection of any region in world apart from Middle East. Only two out ten member states Association Asian Nations (ASEAN) have signed 1951 International Refugee Convention. Nevertheless, 2012 ASEAN Human Rights Declaration explicitly mentions right to seek and receive asylum ‘in accordance with laws such State applicable internati...

This study focused on estimating the long-run and short-run relationship of dross domestic savings, development industrial sector, renewable energy consumption towards environmental degradation in Association Southeast Asian (ASEAN) countries. We conducted Pooled Mean Group (PMG) estimation techniques developed by Pesaran et al.(1999). The results highlighted that all variables present signific...

46 Finance & Development / September 1998 OVERTY is both more widespread and more persistent in the Philippines than in neighboring ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) countries. While the poverty rate has decreased in the Philippines over the past 25 years, the decline has been slower than in other ASEAN countries. Some of the blame for the Philippines’ slow progress in reducing th...

Medical toxicology is somehow a neglected field of medicine. Support for this discipline is necessary as there are many competing interests within a nation's public health priorities (1). In the previous issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, the essentials of the empowerment of medical toxicology in the Asia Pacific region have been discussed (2). Perhaps, there is now an urg...

This paper examines the existence of long-run relationships between East Asian economic integration and tourism exports for nine selected ASEAN States for the period 1996-2007. I employ tourist arrivals data as a proxy for tourism exports and trade ratios as a proxy for the economic integration. Using Johansen’s Fisher panel cointegration test, the findings show that tourist arrivals and trade ...