The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has become one of the most important players in the global trading system. Comprising 10 countries with very diverse income levels, ASEAN is now the world’s fifth largest economy and plays a central role in the so-called “Factory Asia”. This document begins with an overview of the history and institutions of ASEAN, before focusing on one of its three pillars: the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), including a critical assessment of outcomes in the areas of trade in goods, trade in services and investment, among others. The document draws best pra…
En este documento se analizan los impactos que ha tenido el comercio internacional en el empleo y salarios en México, a través de la competencia china en el mercado de los Estados Unidos en el período 2004-2017. De esta manera se contribuye al estudio sobre los efectos del comercio en México a través de un enfoque regional. Las estimaciones se realizan hasta 2017 con el fin de evitar los efectos de las crecientes barreras comerciales entre los Estados Unidos y China a partir de 2018.…
China’s investments are one way for expanding infrastructure that many Latin American countries have been seeking through Public-Private Partnerships (PPP). To attract and retain the interest of the private sector, the existence of a proper, strong governance, as well as stable and sound legal frameworks is paramount. Decision-making and implementation processes also need to be improved to ensure that the match between the infrastructure investment needs in Latin America and the Chinese financing capabilities effectively results in a leap towards the improvement of infrastructure in quantity a…
En el ajedrez, el objetivo es el derrumbe del rey. En el juego chino de wei, en cambio, se busca el cerco estratégico que evita el conflicto directo. No es exagerado aplicar ese paralelismo a los modos en que Estados Unidos y China, respectivamente, se posicionan en el conflicto de hegemonías que hoy los tiene como protagonistas, de cuya resolución dependerá en buena medida el mundo que habitaremos en el siglo XXI. A pesar de la centralidad de esta disputa, Occidente permanece tercamente aferrado a estereotipos e ideas equivocadas cuando trata de interpretar las ambiciones políticas chinas.
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This study analyzes foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows from the Republic of Korea to Latin America and the Caribbean in the last two decades to identify how Korean companies are investing in the region and which lessons can be learned from this relationship. The study relies on the analysis of investment flows, greenfield projects, and mergers and acquisitions as well as on interviews with entrepreneurs and authorities and a survey conducted on a small sample of suppliers of the automotive industry in Mexico. The Republic of Korea is a valuable economic partner for countries in Latin Ame…
En el presente documento se comparan los regímenes de inversión extranjera directa (IED) en dos países de Asia oriental y sudoriental (la República de Corea y Tailandia) y tres de América Latina (Argentina, Colombia y Perú).
En los últimos años se ha pasado de una visión predominantemente cuantitativa de la IED a otra de tipo más cualitativo, donde los beneficios dependerán crucialmente del sector de destino y del tipo de inversión. Los dos países asiáticos aquí analizados no solo han recibido cuantiosas inversiones en una amplia variedad de sectores, sino que también se han convertido en impo…
This document adopts a network analysis approach to examine the vertical trade relations between Latin America and Asia, showing the potential of these techniques for providing new insights into the patterns and dynamics of countries’ GVC linkages. Particularly, network-based measures are used to assess how important countries are as users and suppliers of foreign intermediate inputs in each network, at both the aggregate and sector level. In addition, clustering techniques are applied to identify groups of supplier countries.…
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