Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences: Volume 40 Issue 1

Guest editorial: Guest editorial for special issue on RCEP

Badar Alam Iqbal, Mohd Nayyer Rahman

Has the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) negotiations impacted on tourism flows of member countries?

Sheereen Banon Fauzel, Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur, Boopen Seetanah

Using panel data for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) member states, the present study explored the role of RCEP negotiations on tourism development.

Exploring the impact of RCEP on Malaysia: insights from select manufacturing industries

Nida Rahman, Krishan Sharma

Regional comprehensive economic partnership (RCEP) is understood as the world's largest trading bloc given its contribution to the world output (30%). The mega trade bloc brings…

Impact of government responses to COVID-19 on the resilience of FDI attractiveness factors in the Asian region

Souhaila Kammoun, Youssra Ben Romdhane

The purpose of this paper is twofold. Firstly, the paper aims to determine the separate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and government actions represented by the index of…

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) for the Asia–Pacific region and world

Mohamad Zreik

The regional comprehensive economic partnership (RCEP) is promising as per the claims and can be revolutionary for the Asia–Pacific Region. The member countries will get a boost…

Heterogeneous analysis of free trade agreement between Pakistan and China: a policy guideline for CPEC

Muhammad Imran, Abdul Sattar, Md Shabbir Alam

Economic ties and formation of trade blocks escalates the movement of goods among the participants and bring different economic and structural changes. Therefore, the current…

The causality relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth in RCEP countries

Özcan Karahan, Olcay Çolak

The direction of the causality relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and economic growth is a highly controversial issue in the literature. There are two basic…

Evolution of RCEP rules of origin (comparison with ASEAN plus FTAs and recent mega-FTAs/EPAs)

Jitsuya Hasegawa

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the evolution of the rules of origin (RoO) of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).

Emissions-foreign trade nexus: establishing the need to harmonize environment and economics in RCEP

Nisha Prakash, Madhvi Sethi

This article investigates the impact of foreign trade on carbon emissions of the member countries of the largest trade bloc, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).