Acknowledgments List of contributors Acronyms v ix xii I.  II.  III.  IV.  V.  VI.  VII.  VIII.  Crisis Reinforces Need for Stronger Trade and Financial Integration in Asia and the Pacific Mia Mikic and Ravi Ratnayake Exploring the Impacts of Trade Liberalization in Asia and the Pacific Anna strutt and Mia Mikic Assessing the Potential for Growth of Intra-Regional Trade in South Asia Deepika Wadhwa European Union-India Bilateral Free Trade Agreement: Potential Implications for the Excluded Low-Income Economies in Asia and Africa Selim Raihan What Behind-the-Border Reforms in Services and Investment are Best Done Through Trade Agreements? Philippa Dee The Global Crisis: A Wake-Up Call for Trade Finance Capacity Building in Emerging Asia Yann Duval and Wei Liu Geographical Trade Structure and Patterns of International Portfolio Investment - the Case of Australia Keven Daly and Anil Mishra Time-Zone Arbitrage in United States Mutual Funds: Damaging to Financial Integration between the US, Asia and Europe? Katelyn Rae Donnelly and Edward Tower 1 13 36 66 93 110 120 134