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Since 2004, China has amended its treatment of foreign investments to attract higher-quality foreign investment and upgrade processing exports in order to transform itself from a world sweatshop to a global manufacturing center. The policies appear to have the intended effects.

Read more of the article entitled 'Made in China: From World Sweatshop to a Global Manufacturing Center?'

ASEAN is considering an East Asian Free Trade Agreement. Can ASEAN remain in the driver's seat of regional integration and be an effective hub? The FTA proliferation also has important consequences and effects for East Asia and the world trading system.

Read more of the article entitled 'Whither East Asian Regionalism? An ASEAN Perspective'

The study examines the content of websites featuring prospective brides from the Philippines and Thailand. It explains how and why the representation of Thai and Filipino women on intermarriage websites involves power and violence thus creating unequal Third World-First World power relations that are embedded in international migration circuits.

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When corrupt business alliances collectively wield more economic clout than some sovereign states, what can be done?

Read more of the article entitled 'Competition Policy at the Service of Development'

The AssessUrBook initiative opens up a new dimension in examination and assessment approaches for basic accounting.

Read more of the article entitled 'Assessing Accounting Cycle Skill Software'