EAFTA or CEPEA: Which Way Forward? (2008)
Masahiro Kawai, Ganeshan Wignaraja
ASEAN Economic Bulletin - Volume 25, Number 2, August 2008
Economic Implications of Asian Integration (2008)
Francois, Joseph F, Wignaraja, Ganeshan
The Asian countries are once again focused on options for large, comprehensive regional integration schemes. In this paper we explore the implications of such broad-based regional trade initiatives...
Economic Implications of Asian Integration (2008)
Francois, Joseph F, Wignaraja, Ganeshan
The Asian countries are once again focused on options for large, comprehensive regional integration schemes. In this paper we explore the implications of such broad-based regional trade initiatives...
Economic Implications of Asian Integration (2008)
Francois, Joseph F, Wignaraja, Ganeshan
The Asian countries are once again focused on options for large, comprehensive regional integration schemes. In this paper we explore the implications of such broad-based regional trade initiatives...
Economic Implications of Asian Integration (2008)
Francois, Joseph F, Wignaraja, Ganeshan
The Asian countries are once again focused on options for large, comprehensive regional integration schemes. In this paper we explore the implications of such broad-based regional trade initiatives...
FDI and innovation as drivers of export behaviour : firm-level evidence from East Asia (2008)
This paper examines the links between ownership, innovation and exporting in electronics firms in three late industrializing East Asian countries (China, Thailand and the Philippines) drawing on...
Sri Lanka was the earliest South Asian economy to introduce economic reforms to attract export-oriented FDI. The rise of clothing production for export, apparently mainly driven by foreign firms, is...
Ganeshan Wignaraja, David Joiner
The views expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Asian Development Bank. FOREWORD The ERD Working Paper Series is a forum for...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oxford, 1995.
Central Asia: Mapping Future Prospects
John Malcolm Dowling, Ganeshan Wignaraja
Central Asia has emerged as one of the world’s fastest growing regions since the late 1990s and has shown notable development potential. This is significant for a region comprising largely of small...
Central Asia’s Transition After Fifteen Years: Growth and Policy Choices
John Malcolm Dowling, Ganeshan Wignaraja
This paper presents a coherent and systematic analysis of the collapse and subsequent revival of the Central Asian Republics (CARs) since 1990. The focus is on the pattern of growth and structural...
Sri Lanka was the earliest South Asian economy to introduce economic reforms to attract export-oriented FDI. The rise of clothing production for export, apparently mainly driven by foreign firms, is...
Michael G. Plummer, Ganeshan Wignaraja
Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years. These accords span the real and financial sectors; rather than following the more...
Firm Size, Technological Capabilities and Market-Oriented Policies in Mauritius
Mauritius is an outlier in Sub-Saharan Africa for its impressive manufactured export performance based on garments since the adoption of market-oriented policies in the early 1980s. Little, however,...
Non-Tariff Measures, Technological Capability Building and Exports in India's Pharmaceutical Firms
Wignaraja, Ganeshan, Nixson, Frederick
As tariffs fall over time, attention inevitably focuses on non-tariff measures (NTMs). Governments are increasingly imposing mandatory technical regulations on products for reasons of security,...
Firm Size, Technological Capabilities and Market-oriented Policies in Mauritius
Mauritius is an outlier in sub-Saharan Africa in terms of its impressive growth in garment exports since it adopted outward-oriented policies in the early 1980s. Little, however, is known about the...
Foreign ownership, technological capabilities and clothing exports in Sri Lanka
Drawing on recent developments in applied international trade and innovation and learning in developing countries, this paper examines the links between firm-level export performance, foreign...
Plummer, Michael G., Wignaraja, Ganeshan
Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years.These accords span the real and financial sectors; rather than following the more...
Regionalism as an Engine of Multilateralism: A Case for a Single East Asian FTA
Kawai, Masahiro, Wignaraja, Ganeshan
As East Asia becomes increasingly integrated through market-driven trade and FDI activities, free trade agreements (FTAs) are proliferating. Consolidation of multiple and overlapping FTAs into a...
Central Asia after Fifteen Years of Transition: Growth, Regional Cooperation, and Policy Choices
Dowling, Malcolm, Wignaraja, Ganeshan
This paper presents a coherent and systematic analysis of the collapse and subsequent revival of the Central Asian Republics (CARs) since 1990. The focus is on the pattern of growth and structural...
FDI and Innovation as Drivers of Export Behaviour: Firm-level Evidence from East Asia
This paper examines the links between ownership, innovation and exporting in electronics firms in three late industrializing East Asian countries (China, Thailand and the Philippines) drawing on...
Economic Implications of Deeper Asian Integration
Joseph Francis Francois, Ganeshan Wignaraja
The Asian countries are once again focused on options for large, comprehensive regional integration schemes. In this paper we explore the implications of such broad-based regional trade initiatives...
Economic Implications of Asian Integration
Joseph Francois, Ganeshan Wignaraja
The Asian countries are once again focused on options for large, comprehensive regional integration schemes. In this paper we explore the implications of such broad-based regional trade initiatives...
Economic Implications of Deeper Asian Integration
Francois, Joseph, Wignaraja, Ganeshan
The Asian countries are once again focused on options for large, comprehensive regional integration schemes. In this paper we explore the implications of such broad-based regional trade initiatives...
Integration Strategies for ASEAN: Alone, Together, or Together with Neighbors
Michael G Plummer, Ganeshan Wignaraja
ASEAN has been deepening intra-regional integration at the same time that it has been forming various cooperative arrangements with its partners, and its Member Countries have been pursuing...
Roads for Asian Integration: Measuring ADB's Contribution to the Asian Highway Network
Madhur, Srinivasa, Wignaraja, Ganeshan, Darjes, Peter
Against the backdrop of growing momentum for regional cooperation and integration (RCI) in Asia, this paper examines the link between regional roads and Asian Development Bank (ADB) support between...