This book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive account of the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) organisation and examines the challenges APEC now faces in the new century. Subjects covered include:
* the history of APEC
* APEC and the latest WTO round
* case-studies of countries in the region including China, Japan, Malaysia, Korea and Taiwan
* APECs approach to competition and deregulation policy
* assessment of APECs standing as an international institution
Featuring contributions from distinguished groups of international academic experts, this book is essential reading for all those interested in political and economic developments in the Asia-Pacific.
List of figures vii List of tables ix Contributors xi Preface xiii Abbreviations xvi Introduction - APEC ideas and reality: history and prospects 1(18) Ross Garnaut Macroeconomic interdependence in the APEC region 19(38) Akira Kohsaka Trade and investment liberalisation and facilitation 57(41) Ippei Yamazawa Shujiro Urata APEC and the millennium round 98(19) Peter A. Petri APECs relationship with its sub-regional trading arrangements 117(37) Mahani Zainal-Abidin Liberalisation of manufacturing sectors: the automobile industry in China 154(23) Ralph W. Huenemann Malaysias telecommunications services: liberalisation within APEC 177(20) Sieh Lee Mei Ling Loke Wai Heng Liberalisation of the rice sector in Japan, Korea and Taiwan 197(21) Tsu-Tan Fu Ecotech at the heart of APEC: capacity-building in the Asia Pacific 218(37) Andrew Elek Hadi Soesastro Competition and deregulation policy areas in APEC 255(25) Kerrin M. Vautier Peter Lloyd Application of CGE modelling to analysis of environmental measures in APEC 280(18) Kanemi Ban APEC as an international institution 298(27) Vinod K. Aggarwal Charles E. Morrison Summary and recommendations 325(4) Ippei Yamazawa Peter Drysdale Hadi Soesastro Index 329
Ippei Yamazawa is Professor Emeritus at Hitotsubashi University, Japan and has published widely on the Asia Pacific economies.
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