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Asia’s Free Trade Agreements
How is Business Responding?
Edited by Masahiro Kawai and Ganeshan Wignaraja
The spread of Asia’s free trade agreements (FTAs) has sparked an important debate on the impact of such agreements on business activity. This pioneering study uses new evidence from surveys of East Asian exporters – including Japan, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea and three ASEAN economies of the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand – to shed light on the FTA debate.
Masahiro Kawai and Ganeshan Wignaraja
Conflict, Chaos and Confusion
The Crisis in the International Trading System
William A. Kerr
After 15 years the WTO is not functioning as envisioned and is faced with many new trade challenges − climate change, terrorism, pandemics, genetically modified organisms, food safety − which it is ill-equipped to handle. Conflict, Chaos and Confusion sheds light on this deep and acute crisis, focusing on contentious and complex new trade issues and how they will affect international trade in the future.