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Economic Regionalisation and Intra-Industry Trade Pacific-Asian Perspectives
- Title
- Economic Regionalisation and Intra-Industry Trade [electronic resource]: Pacific-Asian Perspectives / Kiichiro Fukasaku
- Author
- Fukasaku, Kiichiro.
- Publication
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 1992.
Available Online
Details
- Description
- 58 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.
- Summary
- The present paper examines the trade development of Pacific-Asian economies during the past decade from the perspective of regional integration. Its main focus is on the development of intra-regional and intra-industry trade. It provides some statistical evidence for the often-heard argument that the remarkable development of Pacific-Asian trade in the 1980s should be seen as a case for the "flying-geese" pattern of trade development, which is basically of inter-industry type. It argues, however, that developments since the mid-1980s have provided a new dimension to the regional division of labour — increasing the opportunities for intra-industry trade (IIT) among the Pacific-Asian economies.The empirical analysis based on the Grubel-Lloyd index of IIT in manufactures suggests that large increases in the level of IIT in the developing economies of the region is a consequence of "globalisation" of corporate activities in the United States and, more recently, in Japan and the ...
- Series Statement
- OECD Development Centre Working Papers, 1815-1949 ; no.53
- Uniform Title
- OECD Development Centre Working Papers, no.53.
- Subject
- Development
- LCCN
- 10.1787/035300332827
- OCLC
- oecd-lib
- Author
- Fukasaku, Kiichiro.
- Title
- Economic Regionalisation and Intra-Industry Trade [electronic resource]: Pacific-Asian Perspectives / Kiichiro Fukasaku
- Imprint
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 1992.
- Series
- OECD Development Centre Working Papers, 1815-1949 ; no.53OECD Development Centre Working Papers, 1815-1949 ; no.53.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Development
- Other Standard Identifier
- 10.1787/035300332827 doi