Regional Trade Agreements In Asia

Edited by Tran Van Hoa, Research Professor, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia and Charles Harvie, Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Small Business and Regional Research, University of Wollongong, Australia

2008 296 pp Hardback 978 1 84720 061 7

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Tran Van Hoa and Charles Harvie present this original study of the likely effects of new regional development. The first East Asia Summit in 2005 prompted discussions of enlargement of ASEAN free trade agreements to include all major trading blocs and their likely regional and global implications. The contributors to this book, internationally renowned experts from ASEAN, East Asia, India and Oceania, analyse the probable impacts of this expansion on trade, investment, development, poverty and economic growth and integration.

Contents
Contents: Foreword by Stephen Martin Part I: Regional Economic Integration Issues Part II: Economic, Trade, Investment and Integration Issues for Enlarged ASEAN Members Part III: Micro, Finance, Management and Sectoral Issues in an Enlarged ASEAN Part IV: Conclusions and Prospects Index Contributors: E. Cheng, A. Goyal, B. Grewal, N.M. Hai, C. Harvie, W. Lewnanonchai, G. Li, P. Lloyd, P. Malhotra, A. Puntasen, T. Rattanawarinchai, S. Ray, T. Van Hoa, X. Wei, Y. Zhao

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‘The book provides a useful contribution on a region likely to attract increasing attention in future.’
– Benoit Rousseau Leduc, East Asian Integration Review

‘In this very readable contribution many of the region’s superior minds have looked deeply into some of the most important trade issues facing Asia in the coming years.’
– From the foreword by Professor the Hon. Stephen Martin, Victoria University, Australia

The first East Asia Summit in 2005 prompted discussions of enlargement of ASEAN free trade agreements to include all major trading blocs and their regional and global implications. In this timely and original study, Tran Van Hoa and Charles Harvie explore the likely effects of new regional development.

With more than half of the world’s consumption and production market, well-defined trade agreements in Asia remain crucial to the economic growth and stability of the area. This book contains scholarly and well-researched contributions from internationally renowned experts from ASEAN, East and South Asia and Oceania who discuss this major new development and its impact on trade, investment, services, development, industry, poverty and economic relations. An important collection of new research, this volume will be used by economists, trade experts, academics, students, government advisers, policymakers and all those interested in these significant contemporary developments and their far-ranging implications in an enlarged Asia.

Full table of contents

Contents:

Foreword
Stephen Martin

PART I: REGIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION ISSUES
1. Regional Trade Agreements in Asia: An Overview
Tran Van Hoa and Charles Harvie

2. The WTO, Regional Trade Agreements and an Enlarged ASEAN
Tran Van Hoa

3. Deep Integration in Regional Trading Agreements
Peter Lloyd

4. China’s Global Competitiveness and Regional Trade and Investment
Yanyun Zhao

PART II: ECONOMIC, TRADE, INVESTMENT AND INTEGRATION ISSUES FOR ENLARGED ASEAN MEMBERS
5. India’s Poor and Gains from Trade with ASEAN
Shovan Ray

6. Aspects of an Enlarged ASEAN: a Perspective from Thailand
Apichai Puntasen, Wichada Lewnanonchai and Thanawan Rattanawarinchai

7. Agricultural Issues in an Enlarged ASEAN: The Case of Vietnam
Nguyen Manh Hai and Tran Van Hoa

8. Prospects for an AFTA-CER Free Trade Agreement
Charles Harvie

PART III: MICRO, FINANCE, MANAGEMENT AND SECTORAL ISSUES IN AN ENLARGED ASEAN
9. SMEs in Regional Trade and Investment Development
Charles Harvie

10. Asian Reserves and the Dollar: Issues in an Enlarged ASEAN
Ashima Goyal

11. TRIPS-plus: Free Trade Agreements Jeopardizing Public Health in Developing Nations
Prabodh Malhotra and Bhajan Grewal

12. The Micro-finance Movement in China: Lessons and Initiatives for an Enlarged ASEAN
Enjiang Cheng

13. China’s Corporate Culture and Implications for Trade and Investment in the Asian Region
Guirong Li and Xianfeng Wei

PART IV: CONCLUSIONS AND PROSPECTS
14. Challenges and Opportunities from an Enlarged ASEAN
Tran Van Hoa

Index

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