著者

石戸 光 イシド ヒカリ ISHIDO Hikari

出版者

千葉大学経済学会

雑誌

経済研究 (ISSN:09127216)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.24, no.1, pp.43-95, 2009-06

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This paper addresses the diversity and scope for catalyzing further cooperation in the Asia Pacific region, as the title indicates. With the complexity of Asia-Pacific region's trade pattern and financial interdependence evolving further in this new century, the Pacific Rim region has a significant implication for formulating outward-looking economic policy. The paper provides factual information on and analytical insight into the region's diversity; and then provides practical policy recommendations. 2010 is the year in which Japan will chair all the government-level meetings under the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). APEC is a unique international forum in that it (1) propounds an "open regionalism" of free trade and investment, originally (albeit arguably) on a non-reciprocal basis; (2)operates in a uniquely diverse economic milieu; and (3) includes as its members the world's big economies (including the US, Russia, China and Japan). In the arena of international economic policy making, the popularity of the APEC forum had "hit the bottom" soon after the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997, at which APEC could not, at least as a general perception, prescribe any viable policy frameworks. A heart-felt cooperative spirit shared by all the member economies of APEC (including its citizens), therefore, is indispensable for achieving economic stabilityand prosperity in this region.欧文抄録: pp.99-100