<div class="page" title="Page 4"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Myanmar has recently been receiving heightened international attention as one of the emerging economies with considerable natural resources ...

<p> The present study is part of a larger project for analysing the implications of globalization for the industrial and technological development process of developing countries in the ESCAP region. The basic objective ...

This report analyzes how emerging market firms upgrade their capabilities to become leading global competitors, suggesting the use of foreign investments as an upgrading mechanism in global value chains. The report introduces ...

<p>This paper has two objectives: (1) assess the health sector performance of the Philippines relative to other ASEAN member states, and (2) assess regional health integration and cooperation in the Philippines, and identify ...

<p>&bull; The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the collapse of global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, which fell 42 per cent from US$1.5 trillion in 2019 to an estimated U$$859 billion in 2020. The most recent ...

<p>Living through the current economic crisis, it is hard to imagine that Asia is the same region that was recently touted as being the engine of growth for the world economy far into the twenty-first century. As is too ...

<ul> <li>After a dramatic year for the global economy, economic activity and international merchandise trade rebounded strongly in 2021. Global merchandise exports and imports are estimated to have surpassed pre-pandemic ...

The Asia-Pacific region continues to be the largest contributor to the worldwide build-up of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Looking at the stock of PTAs with at least one party from Asia-Pacific region, 184 trade ...

Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows declined for the third consecutive year in 2018, dropping 13% from 2017 levels to $1.3 trillion. The largest declines were in developed economies and economies in transition. ...

Globally, both FDI inflows and outflows started to recover in 2019, with the former growing 30% to $1.5 billion and the latter increasing by 33% to $1.3 billion. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused global FDI flows ...