At a time of growing global tensions, regional trade alliances may be less about integration and more about discrimination For 30 years the number of regional trade agreements (RTAs) has been on the ...

Citing successful examples such as the Eastern Caribbean Securities Market and the ASEAN+3 Asian Bond Markets Initiative, the ...

Governor Jameel Ahmed urged regional market integration to boost growth. He said no country can tackle economic challenges ...

Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 37, No. 3 (September 2022), pp. 423-457 (35 pages) Regions are gaining importance as globalization struggles with local sustainable implementation. Thus, regional ...

Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 36, No. 2 (June 2021), pp. 185-202 (18 pages) This paper investigates if financial markets in emerging Asia have become more globally or regionally integrated ...

The movement of foreign direct investment into Africa is vital to the continent’s advancement. But even more so is the development of their middle class, which relies on continued regional integration ...

On May 7, 2020, the first issue of The ASEAN magazine was released to the public, with the objective of informing citizens of the work of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. On this remarkable ...

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and let me welcome you to this conference, co-hosted by Hitotsubashi University and the IMF. I would like to first thank our friends at Hitotsubashi, who together ...

TIANJIN, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday hailed the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as a practical demonstration of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization ...

Governor Jameel Ahmad has emphasised the urgent need for greater regional cooperation and innovation to build integrated capital markets capable of mobilising investment, enhancing resilience and ...

Regional Monetary Integration surveys the prospects for monetary integration in various parts of the world. Beginning with a brief review of the theory of optimal currency areas, the book goes on to ...