[PDF] Transparency And Regional Integration In The Asia Pacific eBook

Author : Matthias Helble Ben Shepherd John S. Wilson
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Cost Analysis
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Abstract: The authors show in this paper that increasing the transparency of the trading environment can be an important complement to traditional liberalization of tariff and non-tariff barriers. Our definition of transparency is grounded in a transaction cost analysis. The authors focus on two dimensions of transparency: predictability (reducing the cost of uncertainty) and simplification (reducing information costs). Using the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies as a case study, the authors construct indices of importer and exporter transparency for the region from a wide range of sources. Our results from a gravity model suggest that improving trade-related transparency in APEC could hold significant benefits by raising intra-APEC trade by proximately USD 148 billion or 7.5 pecent of baseline trade in the region.

Author : Matthias Helble
Publisher :
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 2016
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The authors show in this paper that increasing the transparency of the trading environment can be an important complement to traditional liberalization of tariff and non-tariff barriers. Our definition of transparency is grounded in a transaction cost analysis. The authors focus on two dimensions of transparency: predictability (reducing the cost of uncertainty) and simplification (reducing information costs). Using the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies as a case study, the authors construct indices of importer and exporter transparency for the region from a wide range of sources. Our results from a gravity model suggest that improving trade-related transparency in APEC could hold significant benefits by raising intra-APEC trade by proximately USD 148 billion or 7.5 pecent of baseline trade in the region.

Author : Matthias Helble
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Page : pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 2012
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The authors show in this paper that increasing the transparency of the trading environment can be an important complement to traditional liberalization of tariff and non-tariff barriers. Our definition of transparency is grounded in a transaction cost analysis. The authors focus on two dimensions of transparency: predictability (reducing the cost of uncertainty) and simplification (reducing information costs). Using the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies as a case study, the authors construct indices of importer and exporter transparency for the region from a wide range of sources. Our results from a gravity model suggest that improving trade-related transparency in APEC could hold significant benefits by raising intra-APEC trade by proximately USD 148 billion or 7.5 pecent of baseline trade in the region.

Author : Bambang Susantono
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9292624938

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This book reviews progress with regional cooperation and integration in Asia and the Pacific and explores how it can be reshaped to achieve a more resilient, sustainable, and inclusive future. Consisting of papers contributed by renowned scholars and Asian Development Bank staff, the book covers four major areas: public goods, trade and investment, financial cooperation, and regional health cooperation. The book emphasizes how the region can better leverage regional integration to realize its vast potential as well as overcome challenges such as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 28,53 MB
Release : 2005-04-28
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ISBN : 9264009175

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This report, published by the OECD's International Futures Programme in co-operation with the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre in Australia, aims to stimulate informed debate about the main integration issues facing the Asia-Pacific region in the ...

Author : Bijit Bora
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Regional Integration and the Asia Pacific distinguishes between two processes of economic integration, with particular focus on co-ordinated policy initiatives to promote integration. It also examines naturally linked economies.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 2021-10-07
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ISBN : 9789292690496

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This report discusses the enhanced framework of the Asia-Pacific Regional Cooperation and Integration Index (ARCII) that now includes digital connectivity and environmental cooperation among other innovations for monitoring progress. The ARCII has been used for monitoring progress in various dimensions of regional cooperation and integration (RCI) in Asia and the Pacific since 2017. With these new features of the ARCII, the report explores the links between regional and global economic integration and sheds light on the application of the index to RCI analysis and policy strategies for Asia and Pacific economies.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9290920572

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The publication tells the story of the use of stakeholder participation to support public sector reform in Nauru and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). The report provides important lessons for donor agencies, for Nauru and the RMI, and for other Pacific island nations that mainly live off aid and other rents. The lessons concern what has gone wrong with governance and why, and what can be done to improve governance under existing conditions. The three pilot projects described show that by taking transparency directly to the people, donors can help create more favorable conditions under which local citizens themselves can more readily press for reform. Whether the modest gains achieved in the pilot projects will prevail remains to be seen, but in all three cases, the future looks more promising than the past.

Author : Charlene Barshefsky
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 144227977X

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This report of the CSIS Asia Economic Strategy Commission presents a comprehensive, bipartisan economic strategy for the United States to pursue its vital interests in the Asia-Pacific region. The report is intended to help the new administration carry out a dynamic, forward-looking economic strategy, which will promote growth, jobs, and security in the United States and across the Asia Pacific.