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Product Description Regional Integration and the Asia Pacific distinguishes between two processes of economic integration. One is the tendency for economies to be linked by trade and investment, and the other is the increasing interest in the use of coordinated policy initiatives to promote integration. This bookfocuses on the latter process and determines whether regional integration on international economic issues can contribute to the growth of its component economies. Review "...a comprehensive and informative reference book on the new architecture of the world trading system."--The Journal of Asian Studies"The essays provide useful analyses of the breadth and variability of institutional arrangements that comprise the RTAs [regional trade associations]...Mervyn Lewis provides insightful analysis of the problem of integrating trade in financial services and the benefits to be derived from suchintegration, and Crowley and Findlay provide a particularly interesting and informative report on the interaction between environmental concerns and freer international trade...This volume...contains some very interesting analyses and will provide a valuable reference work for any scholar seekingdetails on individual RTAs in the Asia-Pacific region."--Journal of Comparative Economics About the Author Bijit Bora is Lecturer in Economics at Flinders University, a Research Associate of the Centre for International Economic Studies at the University of Adelaide, and a member of Australia's National Committee for Pacific Economic Co-operation.Christopher Findlay is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide and Co-Director of its Chinese Economic Research Unit and Centre for Economics Education. He is also a Research Associate of the Australia-Japan Research Centre at the Australian National University.