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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: 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...
Author: Jiemian Yang, SIIS The Asian Century, or Pacific Century, has become a catchphrase that places great emphasis on economic dynamism and political power shifts. But...
Author: Jonas Parello-Plesner, ECFR Chinese leaders had a packed Valentine’s Day this year. Xi Jinping, the new leader-in-waiting, toured the US in an effort to develop...
Author: Shankaran Nambiar, MIU, Malaysia The Najib government has given renewed focus to Malaysia’s international economic relations, including liberalisation and increasing interaction with the global economy....