Publications
Edited Volumes
Geographical Indications and International Agricultural Trade: The Challenge for Asia
Food safety concerns have boosted the Asian demand for quality food in general and products of geographical indications in particular. This book shows how Asian countries are empowering regions and enterprises involved in differentiation strategies, and the effects that this regulation can have. Visit site.
Palgrave Macmillan | Hardcover | 272 pages
The New Industrial Revolution: Consumers, Globalization and the End of Mass Production
The rapid emergence of China and India as prime locations for low-cost manufacturing has led some analysts to conclude that manufacturers in the "old economies"—the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Japan—are being edged out of a profitable future. But if countries that historically have been at the forefront of events in manufacturing can adapt adroitly, opportunities are by no means over, says the author of this timely book. Peter Marsh explores 250 years in the history of manufacturing, then examines the characteristics of the industrial revolution that is taking place right now.
The driving forces that influence what types of goods are made and who makes them are little understood, Marsh observes. He discusses the key changes in what is happening in manufacturing today, including advances in technology, a greater focus on tailor-made goods aimed at specific individuals and industry users, participation of many more countries in world manufacturing, and the growing importance of sustainable forms of production. With broad historical sweep and dozens of engaging examples, Marsh explains these changes and their import both for consumers making purchase choices and for manufacturers assessing how to participate successfully in the new industrial era.Visit site.
Yale University Press | Hardcover | 320 pages
Globalization and Economic Nationalism in Asia
This collection documents the different ways in which Asian governments have been pursuing economic nationalism even as they have been integrating with the world economy. The book challenges the popular view that with globalization, either the role of the state becomes redundant or that states are unable to purposefully intervene in the economy. The book argues that since most states pursue national interests, which largely include economic development, they work with national business and often intervene on their behalf to create internationally competitive industries. States are thus viewed as integral to capitalist development, and economic nationalism is neither theoretically nor empirically redundant. Visit site.
Oxford University Press | Hardcover | 304 pages
Quantitative Analysis Of Newly Evolving Patterns of International Trade: Fragmentation, Offshoring of Activities, and Vertical Intra-Industry Trade
This edited volume offers a variety of perspectives on new forms and developments of international trade and related activities for Japan, the United States, the People's Republic of China, and some other important trading countries, to develop new methods and data for measuring the factor contents of emerging new modes of international trade. Visit site.
World Scientific Publishing Company | Hardcover | 532 pages
The Asia-Pacific, Regionalism and the Global System
This edited volume addresses linkages between trade and security by examining the influence of security factors in driving trade policy measures and the corresponding implications of different types of trade arrangements for international security. Ultimately, the project shows that several elements—traditional economic factors, traditional security factors, and human security factors—can affect the development of trade agreements and unilateral policies, and that trade policies may have both a direct and an indirect effect on traditional and human security. Visit site.
Springer | Hardcover | 243 pages
The Asia-Pacific, Regionalism and the Global System
Ever since the Asia-Pacific transformed from an 'institutional desert' into one of the most networked areas in the world, questions of the region's future and the future of the global system have become closely intertwined. This volume explores the key issues of regional co-operation, economic and political integration, security relations and international affairs within and across the Asia-Pacific. Visit site.
Edward Elgar Pub | Hardcover | 304 pages
The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization
The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization provides an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the World Trade Organization. Its purpose is to provide a holistic understanding of what the WTO does, how it goes about fulfilling its tasks, its achievements and problems, and how it might contend with some critical challenges. The Handbook benefits from an interdisciplinary approach. The editorial team comprises a transatlantic partnership between a political scientist, a historian, and an economist. Visit site.
Oxford University Press | Hardcover | 800 pages
The Asia-Pacific, Regionalism and the Global System
The Report collects essays on issues including macroeconomics, finance, trade, and migration. These reflect the research of nine research teams working in an EU-funded project known as PEGGED (Politics, Economics and Global Governance: the European Dimensions). Visit site.
Edward Elgar Publishing | Hardcover | 304 pages
Streamlining Non-Tariff Measures: A Toolkit for Policy Makers
The Asian Economic Integration Monitor is a semiannual review of Asia’s regional economic cooperation and integration. It covers 48 regional member countries of the Asian Development Bank. This issue includes a special section-Regional Integration: A Balanced View. Visit site.
Asian Development Bank | PDF | 74 pages
Case Studies on Cross-Border Ecotrade
This compilation of four country case studies provides a comprehensive understanding of challenges, good practices, and lessons learnt under different situations on the subject of cross-border ecotrade. Visit site.
Asian Development Bank | PDF | 34 pages
The Future and the WTO: Confronting the Challenges: A Collection of Short Essays
The publication features contributions on a range of topics, including the core functions of the WTO, the role of emerging economies, the influence of regional agreements, and institutional challenges. Visit site.
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) | PDF | 220 pages
Débâcle: The 11th GTA Report
The 11th GTA report provides a detailed account of the resort to beggar-thy-neighbour policies from the first crisis-era G20 summit in November 2008 until May 2012. The findings suggest that international restraints on contemporary protectionism are pretty weak, and that if the battle against protectionism is to be won it must be fought in national capitals. The report also contains four case studies of crisis-era commercial policies (covering Brazil, People’s Republic of China, the European Union, and Switzerland) as well as detailed data on each G20 country, both as a instigator and a victim of crisis-era protectionism. Visit site.
Centre for Economic Policy Research | PDF | 294 pages
After the Fall: The Future of Global Cooperation
Given the difficulty of achieving substantial international cooperation, the book emphasized on the need to focus efforts on where they are most required, and most likely to succeed. The book also tries to identify key issues on which cooperation is both most important and most feasible; the study focus on macroeconomic policy coordination, including attention to global imbalances. The authors regard these as important to future international economic stability. Visit site.
International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies | PDF | 128 pages
A Practical Guide to Trade Policy Analysis
The book provides the main tools analyzing trade policy. It outlines the major concepts of trade policy analysis and gives practical guidance on how to apply them to concrete policy questions. Visit site.
World Trade Organization | PDF | 236 pages
World Trade Report 2012 Trade and Public Policies: A Closer Look at Non-Tariff Measures in the 21st Century
Regulatory measures for trade in goods and services raise new and pressing challenges for international cooperation in the 21st century. This report examines why governments use these non-tariff measures and to what extent such measures may distort international trade. The focus of the Report is on technical barriers to trade (TBT) regarding standards for manufactured goods, sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures concerning food safety and animal/plant health, and domestic regulation in services. Visit site.
World Trade Organization | PDF | 252 pages
Advances in South Asian Economic Cooperation
The pace of regional economic cooperation in South Asia has been said to be slow. The publication, however, highlights a series of recent positive developments that has given rise to optimism about the prospects for regional economic cooperation. Visit site.
South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment | PDF | 40 pages
Final Policy Report: Rethinking Global Economic Governance in Light of the Crisis
The Report collects essays on issues including macroeconomics, finance, trade, and migration. These reflect the research of nine research teams working in an EU-funded project known as PEGGED (Politics, Economics and Global Governance: the European Dimensions). Visit site.
Politics, Economics and Global Governance: The European Dimensions | PDF | 175 pages
Streamlining Non-Tariff Measures: A Toolkit for Policy Makers
A timely contribution from two World Bank economists in the International Trade Department (Mariem Malouche and Sebastián Sáez) and Professor Olivier Cadot of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, this publication comes hot on the heels of the WTO's 2012 World Trade Report, which is also dedicated to non-tariff measures. The book notes the rise in NTMs that has occurred since the 2008 financial crisis as governments in many countries, constrained by tariff bindings but nevertheless facing pressure from struggling domestic import-competing interests for protection, have had recourse to a score of other measures such as quotas, import licensing requirements, and discriminatory government procurement rules. The book provides policymakers with advice and analytical approaches on assessing the costs and benefits of certain NTMs with a view to streamlining those which have a disproportionately negative impact on trade thereby helping policymakers to raise the trade competitiveness of their economies. The study also includes a number of different regional and sector-specific case studies. Visit site.
The World Bank | PDF | 212 pages
Costs and Benefits of Economic Integration in Asia
To recover from recession, the global economy must rely on the strong performance of developing Asian economies, and it has become clear not only in Asia that regional cooperation and integration is key to regional economic development. Heavily reliant on external demand as an impetus to growth and closely linked to global financial markets, Asian economies are becoming closely integrated through trade, investment, and financial transactions. But how closely integrated are they, and what are the real benefits of integration? Visit site.
Oxford University Press | Hardbound | 320 pages
Methodology for Impact Assessment of Free Trade Agreements
This publication displays the menu for choice of available methods to evaluate the impact of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). It caters mainly to policy makers from developing countries and aims to equip them with some economic knowledge and techniques that will enable them to conduct their own economic evaluation studies on existing or future FTAs, or to critically re-examine the results of impact assessment studies conducted by others, at the very least.Visit site.
Asian Development Bank | PDF | 120 pages
Institutions for Regional Integration: Toward an Asian Economic Community
In continuation of the work on Asian economic integration done by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the ADB Institute, this book takes stock of existing institutions for regional integration in Asia and the Pacific and discusses the need for institutional innovation and reform in moving toward the creation of an Asian economic community. The study draws its strength and insights from a team of authors including ADB staff, scholars, and advisers to regional policy makers. Consultation workshops to finalize the study involved leading experts in several countries in Asia, Europe, and North America. Visit site.
Asian Development Bank | PDF | 12 pages
Trade Facilitation and Regional Cooperation in Asia
Asia's rapid development has been heavily dependent on markets external to the region. However, given the unlikely timely recovery of the United States or Europe there is an urgent need to develop domestic and regional markets. While greater integration has long been a regional goal, its importance has never been more pressing. To facilitate trade and promote growth and regional integration, and to counteract declining markets in other regions, Asian countries have announced large expenditures for developing infrastructure. Thus, a look at how investment in regional infrastructure promotes and supports interregional trade growth has never been timelier. While the focus is on informing policy-making in Asia, the findings also have relevance for other regions. Visit site.
Asian Development Bank Institute and Edward Elgar Publishing | PDF | 209 pages
Resurging Asian Giants: Lessons from the People's Republic of China and India
The economies of the People's Republic of China and India have seen dramatic growth in recent years. As their respective successes continue to reshape the world's economic landscape, noted Chinese and Indian scholars have studied the two countries' development paths, in particular their rich and diverse experiences in such areas as education, information technology, local entrepreneurship, capital markets, macroeconomic management, foreign direct investment, and state-owned enterprise reforms. Drawing on these studies, ADB has produced a timely collection of lessons learned that serves as a valuable refresher on the challenges and opportunities ahead for developing economies, especially those in Asia and the Pacific. Visit site.
Asian Development Bank | PDF | 428 pages
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