Economic Development and Cooperation in the Pacific Basin: Trade, Investment, and Environmental Issues

by Edited by Hiro Lee , David W. Roland-Holst

• ISBN13: 9780521396943
• ISBN10: 0521396948
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

First published in 1998, this volume brings together contributions from leading economic analysts around the Pacific Basin, reporting on their research into three of the most important issues facing the region: trade, investment flows, and the environmental effects of economic growth. Each of these issues has important domestic and multilateral ramifications and the Pacific Basin's status as the world's most dynamic economic region makes this analysis relevant to policy makers and researchers in all countries. The collection is unusual in offering appraisals from economists representing the principal economies of the region. Among other contributions in the book are insights into the forces animating regional trade and investment, detailed assessment of leading East Asian economies such as those of China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, and Singapore, and innovative research on economy-environment linkages.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Overview

Prelude to the Pacific century: overview of the region, leading issues, and methodology

US-Japan and Asian Trade Patterns

Cooperative approaches to shifting comparative advantage: the case of bilateral trade between the United States and Japan

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Is There an Asian export model?

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Regional Trading: Arrangements in the Pacific Basin

Should East Asia go regional?

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Political feasibility and empirical assessments of a Pacific free trade area

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Regionalism in the Pacific basin: strategic interest of ASEAN in APEC

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Foreign Direct Investment: Determinants and Consequences

The determinants of foreign direct investment: a survey with application to the United States

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Are trade and direct investment substitutes or complements? An analysis of the Japanese manufacturing industry

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Korea's outward foreign direct investment and the division of labor in the Asia-Pacific

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China's absorption of foreign direct investment

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The impact of foreign investment in Indonesia: historical trends and simulation analysis

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Trade Resources and the Environment

Economic development and the environment in China

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Outward orientation and the environment in the Pacific Basin: coordinated trade and environmental policy reform in Mexico

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