A Brookings Institution Press and the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry (Japan) publication East Asian economic integration is on the rise. In

East Asian countries were notably uninterested in regional monetary integration until the late 1990's, when the Asian financial crisis revealed the fragility of

The growth of world trade has been stagnant in recent times; trade liberalisation now has been challenged. The recent rise of anti-globalisation calls for a bet

Emerging East Asian economies have seen their share of world exports more than triple during the past quarter-century, and intraregional trade has driven this g

The increased mobility and volume of international capital flows is a striking trend in international finance. While countries worldwide have engaged in financi