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  • reduction of carbon emissions through resource saving and environment friendly Regional Economic Integration evidence from wuhan metropolitan area china
    Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2021
    Co-Authors: Anlu Zhang, Lanjiao Wen, Lioudmila Chatalova, Xin Gao
    Abstract:

    Abstract Regional Integration is an important element of China’s decarbonization and sustainability strategies. The present study uses an extended Spatial Durbin Model and county-level panel data to estimate the effectiveness of a pilot scheme of Regional Economic Integration on land-use-related carbon emissions applied in the Wuhan metropolitan area. Intra-Regional and spillover effects of urban development, the policy environment, and Regional interactions are measured from 2001 to 2015, covering equal pre- and post-policy periods. The results suggest high potential for Regional Integration to reduce land-use-related carbon emissions. The levels of the carbon emissions in the 48 counties in the Wuhan metropolitan area are found to be spatially autocorrelated and exhibited clustering patterns. The Regional Economic linkages reveal a spatially gradual diffusion from the urban center to the periphery. The findings extend the relevant literature by showing that the status of the urban development of counties and the type of resource-exchange relations determine both the emissions reduction potential in a region and the direction of the Economic and environmental spillover effects. The findings further point to a close linkage between the low-emission strategy, urban-migration plans, and the land-development policy, suggesting the need for a coordinated approach to define effective Regionally specific policy instruments..

  • how Regional Economic Integration influence on urban land use efficiency a case study of wuhan metropolitan area china
    Land Use Policy, 2020
    Co-Authors: Xin Gao, Anlu Zhang, Zhanli Sun
    Abstract:

    Abstract Many emerging economies have experienced rapid urbanization in an unprecedented scale and speed in the past few decades. While the urban expansion has led to the formation of metropolitan areas and promoted the Economic development, it also exerts enormous pressure on environment and threatens food security. The efficient use of urban land becomes one of paramount challenges for governments to achieve sustainable and balanced growth. However, most literature has ignored the fact that in the metropolitan areas, the Regional Economic Integration may cause the urban input-output structure readjustment through the flow of the market factors and industrial structure redistribution, thus ultimately influencing the urban land use efficiency. In this paper, we use the Wuhan metropolitan area, a rapidly growing urban agglomeration, in central China as a case to investigate the spatial spillover effects of Regional Economic Integration on urban land use efficiency in the core development zones and the restricted development zones from 2001 to 2015. We quantify the total factor urban land use efficiency (TFULE) with data envelopment analysis, and then estimate the underlying determinants of the TFULE with a spatial panel model. Results show that 1) the TFULE values across counties (districts) are spatially autocorrelated and exhibit clustering patterns during the study period; 2) total external Economic linkage (TEEL), quantified with a gravity model, has a significantly positive effect on TFULE of counties (districts) and neighboring counties (districts), especially in the core development zones; 3) the industrial structure upgrading improves the TFULE of counties (districts), but it brings down the TFULE in surrounding areas except for the core development zones. We conclude that Regional Economic Integration in the metropolitan areas can facilitate the optimal allocation of resources for improving urban land use efficiency during the socioEconomic transformation process. Therefore, we suggest the government should establish a distinctly cross-Regional fiscal compensation system to improve the Regional coordination and balance in Economic development.

Siow Yue Chia - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the emerging Regional Economic Integration architecture in east asia
    Asian Economic Papers, 2013
    Co-Authors: Siow Yue Chia
    Abstract:

    This paper examines Regional market Integration through production networks and free trade agreements in East Asia and their attendant challenges and issues. It examines progress in the ASEAN Economic Community and in various ASEAN+1 free trade and Economic Integration agreements. It argues that there is a strong case for a region-wide agreement to maximize Economic synergy and resolve emerging problems, including market fragmentation and the “noodle bowl” effect. It explores three possible paths to region-wide Integration, namely, the East Asia Free Trade Area (encompassing ASEAN+3 [the People's Republic of China, Japan, and Korea]), the Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia (encompassing ASEAN+3 countries and Australia—New Zealand and India) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, currently involving nine negotiating countries in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. The paper explores the Economic and political benefits and challenges of forming these three regionwide agreements. © 2013 The Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  • the emerging Regional Economic Integration architecture in east asia
    Asian Economic Papers, 2013
    Co-Authors: Siow Yue Chia
    Abstract:

    This paper examines Regional market Integration through production networks and free trade agreements in East Asia and their attendant challenges and issues. It examines progress in the ASEAN Economic Community and in various ASEAN+1 free trade and Economic Integration agreements. It argues that there is a strong case for a region-wide agreement to maximize Economic synergy and resolve emerging problems, including market fragmentation and the “noodle bowl” effect. It explores three possible paths to region-wide Integration, namely, the East Asia Free Trade Area (encompassing ASEAN+3 [the People's Republic of China, Japan, and Korea]), the Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia (encompassing ASEAN+3 countries and Australia—New Zealand and India) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, currently involving nine negotiating countries in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. The paper explores the Economic and political benefits and challenges of forming these three regionwide agreements.

  • trade and investment policies and Regional Economic Integration in east asia
    Research Papers in Economics, 2010
    Co-Authors: Siow Yue Chia
    Abstract:

    The global Economic crisis has affected the East Asian economies via trade and investment. The export-led model which had been responsible for the “East Asian Miracle†now must redirect the basis of growth from exports sent to the US and Europe to Regional and domestic demand. Regional trade Integration has been market-led through production networks and foreign direct investment (FDI). Since the proliferation of bilateral and plurilateral free trade agreements (FTA) and Economic partnership agreements (EPA) has not resulted in an integrated Regional market, it is important that East Asia seek an arrangement for a region-wide FTA/EPA. Currently, there are proposals for an ASEAN+3, an ASEAN+6, Pan-Asia, and Asia Pacific initiatives. While proponents of a region-wide FTA/EPA highlight its benefits, skeptics and critics point to the difficulties of reaching consensus in a region with widely varying political, Economic, and social systems. Ultimately it will depend on a political-Economic decision based on a cost-benefit analysis of liberalization, facilitation, and cooperation in a region-wide FTA. [ADBI Working Paper No. 210]

  • trade and investment policies and Regional Economic Integration in east asia
    Social Science Research Network, 2010
    Co-Authors: Siow Yue Chia
    Abstract:

    The global Economic crisis has affected the East Asian economies via trade and investment. The export-led model which had been responsible for the “East Asian Miracle” now must redirect the basis of growth from exports sent to the US and Europe to Regional and domestic demand. Regional trade Integration has been market-led through production networks and foreign direct investment (FDI). Since the proliferation of bilateral and plurilateral free trade agreements (FTA) and Economic partnership agreements (EPA) has not resulted in an integrated Regional market, it is important that East Asia seek an arrangement for a region-wide FTA/EPA. Currently, there are proposals for an ASEAN 3, an ASEAN 6, Pan-Asia, and Asia Pacific initiatives. While proponents of a region-wide FTA/EPA highlight its benefits, skeptics and critics point to the difficulties of reaching consensus in a region with widely varying political, Economic, and social systems. Ultimately it will depend on a political-Economic decision based on a cost-benefit analysis of liberalization, facilitation, and cooperation in a region-wide FTA.

Anlu Zhang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • reduction of carbon emissions through resource saving and environment friendly Regional Economic Integration evidence from wuhan metropolitan area china
    Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2021
    Co-Authors: Anlu Zhang, Lanjiao Wen, Lioudmila Chatalova, Xin Gao
    Abstract:

    Abstract Regional Integration is an important element of China’s decarbonization and sustainability strategies. The present study uses an extended Spatial Durbin Model and county-level panel data to estimate the effectiveness of a pilot scheme of Regional Economic Integration on land-use-related carbon emissions applied in the Wuhan metropolitan area. Intra-Regional and spillover effects of urban development, the policy environment, and Regional interactions are measured from 2001 to 2015, covering equal pre- and post-policy periods. The results suggest high potential for Regional Integration to reduce land-use-related carbon emissions. The levels of the carbon emissions in the 48 counties in the Wuhan metropolitan area are found to be spatially autocorrelated and exhibited clustering patterns. The Regional Economic linkages reveal a spatially gradual diffusion from the urban center to the periphery. The findings extend the relevant literature by showing that the status of the urban development of counties and the type of resource-exchange relations determine both the emissions reduction potential in a region and the direction of the Economic and environmental spillover effects. The findings further point to a close linkage between the low-emission strategy, urban-migration plans, and the land-development policy, suggesting the need for a coordinated approach to define effective Regionally specific policy instruments..

  • how Regional Economic Integration influence on urban land use efficiency a case study of wuhan metropolitan area china
    Land Use Policy, 2020
    Co-Authors: Xin Gao, Anlu Zhang, Zhanli Sun
    Abstract:

    Abstract Many emerging economies have experienced rapid urbanization in an unprecedented scale and speed in the past few decades. While the urban expansion has led to the formation of metropolitan areas and promoted the Economic development, it also exerts enormous pressure on environment and threatens food security. The efficient use of urban land becomes one of paramount challenges for governments to achieve sustainable and balanced growth. However, most literature has ignored the fact that in the metropolitan areas, the Regional Economic Integration may cause the urban input-output structure readjustment through the flow of the market factors and industrial structure redistribution, thus ultimately influencing the urban land use efficiency. In this paper, we use the Wuhan metropolitan area, a rapidly growing urban agglomeration, in central China as a case to investigate the spatial spillover effects of Regional Economic Integration on urban land use efficiency in the core development zones and the restricted development zones from 2001 to 2015. We quantify the total factor urban land use efficiency (TFULE) with data envelopment analysis, and then estimate the underlying determinants of the TFULE with a spatial panel model. Results show that 1) the TFULE values across counties (districts) are spatially autocorrelated and exhibit clustering patterns during the study period; 2) total external Economic linkage (TEEL), quantified with a gravity model, has a significantly positive effect on TFULE of counties (districts) and neighboring counties (districts), especially in the core development zones; 3) the industrial structure upgrading improves the TFULE of counties (districts), but it brings down the TFULE in surrounding areas except for the core development zones. We conclude that Regional Economic Integration in the metropolitan areas can facilitate the optimal allocation of resources for improving urban land use efficiency during the socioEconomic transformation process. Therefore, we suggest the government should establish a distinctly cross-Regional fiscal compensation system to improve the Regional coordination and balance in Economic development.

Nagesh Kumar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • potential and prospects of strengthening transport connectivity for Regional Economic Integration in southern asia
    South Asia Economic Journal, 2015
    Co-Authors: Nagesh Kumar
    Abstract:

    Despite geographical contiguity, Southern Asia remains among the least integrated sub-regions in the world. In the context of changed global context in the aftermath of the global financial crisis requiring the engines of growth to be rebalanced in favour of Regional sources, inability to exploit the potential of Regional Economic Integration and Regional value chains can seriously limit the growth prospects of the sub-region. ESCAP analysis shows that while potential of intra-Regional trade remains substantial, its exploitation is prevented by costs of trading within the sub-region which are often higher than trading with distant regions like the EU and North America, effectively denying the benefits of geographical proximity and contiguity to intra-Regional trade. This situation is because of poorly developed surface transport networks and facilitation at the borders for mutual trade in the sub-region. This article reviews the key constraints on surface transport in the sub-region and makes a case for extended transport corridors that can maximize the network externalities while using the existing infrastructure optimally and benefiting the landlocked countries of the sub-region. It then highlights the relevance of two extended transport corridors—one a container train corridor and another a highway corridor proposed by UNESCAP—that can not only facilitate but have the potential to make the sub-region a hub of Asia–Europe trade. It is concluded with a few remarks on the way forward for a vision of transport connectivity in South Asia.

  • investment provisions in Regional trading arrangements in asia relevance emerging trends and policy implications
    2007
    Co-Authors: Nagesh Kumar
    Abstract:

    This paper summarizes the conceptual rationale for investment liberalization to fully exploit the potential of Regional trading arrangements. It goes on to examine the treatment of investment in emerging FTAs/RTAs in the Asia-Pacific region and the specific investment provisions and their consistency with the existing multilateral provisions on investment, viz. WTOs TRIMs Agreement. The provisions of ASEAN framework on investment area and industrial cooperation are summarized in Section 4. Section 5 briefly examines the trends in Indias RTAs policy in Asia and the emerging patterns of efficiencyseeking industrial restructuring unleashed by it. Finally Section 6 concludes the paper with a few remarks on the importance of a broader framework for Regional Economic Integration.

  • Regional Economic Integration foreign direct investment and efficiency seeking industrial restructuring in asia the case of india
    2007
    Co-Authors: Nagesh Kumar
    Abstract:

    This paper examines the Indias RTAs policy in Asia and the emerging patterns of efficiency-seeking industrial restructuring unleashed by it. Section 2 provides a discussion of the analytical relationship between RTAs, patterns of trade, FDI resulting from the industrial restructuring. It also summarizes some examples of industrial restructuring of the type the EUs Single Market Plan has led to. Section 3 summarizes the Indias RTA policy in Asia and indicators of its growing Economic Integration with East Asian countries. Section 4 highlights the emerging patterns of industrial restructuring resulting from Indias RTAs policy. Section 5 concludes the paper with a few remarks on the importance of a broader framework for Regional Economic Integration.

  • relevance of a â eœpolicy spacea â â for development implications for multilateral trade negotiations
    2007
    Co-Authors: Nagesh Kumar, Kevin P Gallagher
    Abstract:

    This paper makes a compelling case for public intervention for fostering industrial development. We have also summarized evidence that suggests that present day developed countries have extensively employed infant industry protection, industrial policy and performance requirements, soft intellectual property protection regimes, subsidies, government procurement and Regional Economic Integration among other policies in their process of industrialization. Many of these policies have also been effectively and successfully emulated by the newly industrializing economies in East Asia to build internationally competitive modern industries despite the lack of the apparent comparative advantage. A development-friendly outcome of the Doha Round would provide flexibility from the TRIPs and TRIMs obligations for facilitating transfer of technology and building up local capabilities in developing countries besides allowing them adequate space for pursuing infant industry protection in the tariff reduction commitments.

  • multinational enterprises Regional Economic Integration and export platform production in the host countries an empirical analysis for the us and japanese corporations
    Review of World Economics, 1998
    Co-Authors: Nagesh Kumar
    Abstract:

    Multinational Enterprises, Regional Economic Integration and Export-Platform Production in the Host Countries: An Empirical Analysis for the US and Japanese Corporations. — This paper analyzes determinants of export orientation of overseas affiliates of US and Japanese MNEs for the 1982–1994 period. The author contends that production geared to MNEs’ home market and that production oriented to third-country markets are determined by different factors. The empirical analysis finds the home-market-oriented production concentrated in countries that offer low-cost workforce, enjoy geographical proximity or preferential access to the home market. The location of third-country-market-oriented exports is influenced more by strategic factors such as participation in Regional trading blocs and preferential access to major markets than factor costs considerations.

Lanjiao Wen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • reduction of carbon emissions through resource saving and environment friendly Regional Economic Integration evidence from wuhan metropolitan area china
    Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2021
    Co-Authors: Anlu Zhang, Lanjiao Wen, Lioudmila Chatalova, Xin Gao
    Abstract:

    Abstract Regional Integration is an important element of China’s decarbonization and sustainability strategies. The present study uses an extended Spatial Durbin Model and county-level panel data to estimate the effectiveness of a pilot scheme of Regional Economic Integration on land-use-related carbon emissions applied in the Wuhan metropolitan area. Intra-Regional and spillover effects of urban development, the policy environment, and Regional interactions are measured from 2001 to 2015, covering equal pre- and post-policy periods. The results suggest high potential for Regional Integration to reduce land-use-related carbon emissions. The levels of the carbon emissions in the 48 counties in the Wuhan metropolitan area are found to be spatially autocorrelated and exhibited clustering patterns. The Regional Economic linkages reveal a spatially gradual diffusion from the urban center to the periphery. The findings extend the relevant literature by showing that the status of the urban development of counties and the type of resource-exchange relations determine both the emissions reduction potential in a region and the direction of the Economic and environmental spillover effects. The findings further point to a close linkage between the low-emission strategy, urban-migration plans, and the land-development policy, suggesting the need for a coordinated approach to define effective Regionally specific policy instruments..