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Author: Matthew Rimmer, ANU The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a sweeping, plurilateral free-trade agreement spanning the Pacific Rim. The ongoing, secretive treaty negotiations involve Australia and...
Author: Jayant Menon, ADB It was not long ago that the Malaysian development story was hailed as a model of FDI-driven, export-led industrialisation worthy of emulation...
Author: Nicole George, UQ As the 2012 Pacific Islands Forum got underway in the Cook Islands, regional media commentary focused on the high political profile of...
Author: Arthur Alexander, Georgetown University Japanese companies’ obsessive attachment to investment carries serious negative consequences because investment does not pay as well as it could. Too...
Author: Peter Drysdale, Editor, East Asia Forum There have been many studies of China’s regional income inequality, which is commonly asserted to have increased considerably since...
Author: Li Mingjiang, RSIS The past few years have been particularly eventful for the South China Sea dispute. The tensions and related diplomatic pressures exerted on...
Author: Peter Drysdale, Editor, East Asia Forum After decades of struggle to overcome political repression and deprivation, Myanmar appears on the way to democracy. This achievement...
Author: Pradumna B. Rana, RSIS On 3 May 2012, on the sidelines of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Annual Meeting in Manila, ASEAN+3 took a number...
Author: Chalongphob Sussangkarn, TDRI The Chiang Mai Initiative (CMI) is a regional foreign exchange liquidity support mechanism that developed as a result of the 1997–98 Asian...