Regionalism in East Asia : why has it flourished since 2000 and how far will it go? / Richard Pomfret.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pomfret, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regionalism--East Asia.

Regionalism.

East Asia--Economic integration.

East Asia.

East Asia--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines an important economic development in East Asia during the first decade of the 21st century. Whereas regional arrangements were, with the sole significant exception of ASEAN, conspicuously absent before 2000, they have proliferated since 2000 in both the monetary and trade areas. The book places this political development in the changing nature of the national economies, especially their increasing integration into regional and global value chains with the fragmentation of production processes. This is a freshly written, coherent analysis of the topic, drawing upon (updated)

Contents:

Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Before 2000: The Case of the Missing Regionalism; Chapter 3 The Rise and Decline of Open Regionalism; Chapter 4 Market-driven Regionalization: The Emergence of Subregional Zones; Chapter 5 The Asian Crisis, Monetary Integration, and ASEAN+3; Chapter 6 Asian Regionalism Resurgent: FTAs after 2000; Chapter 7 How Wide is the Region?; Chapter 8 How Deep is Asian Regionalism?; Chapter 9 Conclusions; Appendix Measuring Trade Costs and Trade Facilitation; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613144447

9781283144445

1283144441

9789814304337

9814304336

OCLC:

741492838