China’s exports and imports fell in September amid persistent weakness in demand both at home and abroad, though some economists raised hopes that the numbers could look better...
Author: Andrew Elek, ANU APEC leaders will meet in Beijing in November, 25 years after the APEC process was launched in Canberra in 1989. Some early...
Author: Aurelia George Mulgan, UNSW Canberra Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s appointment of Koya Nishikawa as the new Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) is...
Taiwanese protesters are unlikely to stop the territory forging closer economic ties with China.
Authors: Kym Anderson, ANU and University of Adelaide, Maros Ivanic and Will Martin, World Bank Many countries use trade policy to protect their own consumers from...
Authors: Matthias Helble and Ganeshan Wignaraja, ADBI Trade negotiators are currently intensifying their efforts to prepare a deal for the upcoming WTO Ministerial Conference in Bali...
Author: Peter Drysdale, Editor, East Asia Forum Despite the slowing growth in some economies, Asia is still the most dynamic part of the world economy. Output,...
Author: Arvind Subramanian, PIIE The list of candidates to succeed Pascal Lamy as director-general of the WTO has just been finalised. Astonishingly, not one of...
Led by China, Asia — the ASEAN nations, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand — was the major contributor to growth in the...