This review of Asia-Pacific experience in trade policy and development draws on the research papers produced under the Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Initiative and the summaries generated from those papers.

In this review, the authors consider two intimately conjoined issues as it relates to the Asia-Pacific experience:

● The role trade has played in the material progress of societies in the region; and

● The way in which human development is being promoted or diminished, or has languished, from interaction between trade and economic growth