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Recently bilateral free trade agreements(BTAs) have been proliferating. The result of this proliferation is described as the spaghetti bowl effect. This is costly and welfare-reducing. How should the damage of this effect be eliminated and reduced? Today, all countries which are pursuing the multi-track FTAs have a high interest in eliminating this effect. This paper assesses various approaches proposed to eliminate spaghetti bowl effect. But the general limitation of these proposals is their tendency to group all kinds of FTAs together and treat them as a homogeneous group. Namely. these approaches ignore underlying differences in motivation in forming FTAs. Thus, this paper classifies FTAs by motivation before considering the effectiveness of the various approaches, and then assesses their ability to eliminate the spaghetti bowl effect.

The Korean government, with a view of leveraging opportunities and threats stemming from the growth of Asian economic block along with a commitment to rebuilding economic prosperity, has designated six areas as Free Economic Zones(FEZs). However, the position of Korea as a premier logistics hub is currently being challenged. This is because many countries are now possessing excellent infrastructure and are also are planning to become logistics hubs. Therefore, the objective of this study is to provide successful alternatives related in Logistics base and other functional linkage for activation strategies of Korea Free Economic Zone. To examine key factors that would set up FEZs of logistics base in Korea to become a successful logistics and business hub, field survey was conducted. The analysis result revealed that attracting more joint logistics center, securing logistics facilities for cargo, logistics business model, securing sufficient local cargo volume, logistics information integration are very influential factors on successful KFEZs.

The object of this study is to demonstrate the relationship of GSCM developmental stage and firm's performance. To achieve this object, we review the literature about GSCM and develop GSCM developmental stage. We suggest that GSCM developmental stage is four typologies as GSCM early stage, internal GSCM stage, external GSCM stage, GSCM stage. Our hypothesis is that the firm with higher GSCM development stage are associated with higher firm's performance. To validate this hypothesis, the survey questionnaire was developed on the literatures and experts opinions. We collected data from manufacturing firms are certificated ISO 14001 in Korea. The result is that we empirically found GSCM developmental stage using cluster analysis. The firms with higher GSCM developmental stage achieve higher firm's performance

최근까지 십수년 동안 PTAs가 다자간 무역시스템(WTO)에 끼친 효과에 대해 다양한 논의가 있었으며, 때론 학자들 간에 지역무역협정이 다자주의 시스템에 미친 효과의 긍정적 측면과 부정적 측면에 대한 공방이 첨예하게 대립되는 양상도 보이고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 2000년 이후의 연구 결과물을 중심으로 대립되는 견해에 관해 전반적으로 살펴 보고, PTAs가 다자주의체제의 진전에 디딤돌 역할을 하고 있다는 주장들에 대해 반대되는 논거를 제시하고자 한다

India's services sector and trade in services have been growing rapidly since early 1990s. This paper tries to find out if trade in services has been able to generate employment in services sector. Using the time series macro data, the direct and indirect effects of exports and imports on employment after controlling their effects included in the overall growth, are turned out to be negligible. After all, trade in service sector may promote economic growth, but the pattern of growth is less likely to generate employment. To enhance the services sector's potential of making jobs, Indian government has to support the individual service sectors which have comparative advantage, like health services and IT services and to implement coherent and integrated policies.