Author: Justin Kwan, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada As COVID-19 takes its toll on the global economy, the need for international cooperation has seldom been so...
Authors: Nopriyanto Hady Suhanda and M Ridho Mubaroq, Ministry of Finance, Indonesia In the first week of July 2020, Indonesia and Hong Kong entered a new...
Author: Satoshi Inomata, IDE-JETRO According to traditional trade theory, the direction and magnitude of product flows are principally determined by the comparative advantages of trading countries....
Authors: Peter A Petri, Brandeis University and Michael G Plummer, Johns Hopkins University In late June 2020, 15 East Asian countries — representing nearly 30 per...
Author: Ashley Vines, University of Melbourne Indonesia is Australia’s oldest trading partner, with Aboriginal people from northern Australia having traded goods and produce with Makassan people...
Author: Christian Bachheimer, Singapore Countries across the world are already attempting to decouple global value chains (GVCs) in preparation for the post-COVID-19 future. This is both...
Author: Razeen Sally, NUS The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating changes underway since the global financial crisis (GFC) in 2008. It is ushering in a new era...
Author: Stacey Nicole M Bellido, Philippine Foreign Service Institute The Philippines is at a critical juncture in its economic relations with the European Union over free...
Author: Shiro Armstrong, ANU The health and economic crises from the coronavirus are unlike anything the world has experienced since the Great Depression and Second World...