Eastward Ho!
Eastward Ho!
The Times of India, 28 July 2009
Last week, the cabinet approved a FTA with the SEAN. The fruit of
several years of tough negotiations between the two sides, the FTA
would entail reductions or removal of import duties on over 4,000
items of mutual trade.
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The Financial Crisis and East Asia
East Asia Forum, 26 July 2009
Wendy Dobson, University of Toronto, Canada
East Asian economies were relatively well insulated against the
financial impacts of the global financial crisis but their dependence
on trade through regional production networks and export-led growth
strategies made them vulnerable to the sharp contraction of demand
from the North American and European economies.
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http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2009/07/26/the-financial-crisis-and-east-asia/
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The East Asian Moment
BUNN NAGARA
The Star Online, 26 July 2009
DEBATES once raged over whether to build regionalism in East Asia,
but that is becoming a given with the primacy of economics.For decades,
East Asia has had the world’s fastest-growing economies. This
has continued despite several financial crises and recessions.
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The Chindia Illusion
Ali Wyne, Junior Fellow, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace.
nationalinterest.com, 23 July 2009
“Chindia” has rocked the world of geopolitical lingo
in recent years. The subject of articles like “Do
You Have a ‘Chindia’ Strategy?” and books
such as Chindia:
How China and India Are Revolutionizing Global Business, the
idea that China and India are poised to lead the twenty-first century
would have been dismissed only two decades earlier. China found
itself blacklisted after cracking down on protesters at Tiananmen
Square, and India was widely thought to be condemned to the “Hindu
rate of growth.” From the 1970s through the turn of the
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Affluence is not impossible for India
Martin Wolf
Financial Times, 8 July 2009
What will the world economy – indeed, the world – look
like after the financial crisis is over?
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The Worst Is Not Yet Over For East
Asia
Mohamed Ariff, MIER
www.nst.com, 6 July 2009
Empirical evidence indicates that economic contractions tend to
be sharper and last longer if the real-sector contraction is preceded
by a crisis in the financial sector, rather than when the financial
sector remains intact.
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