This paper provides new evidence of the effects of road construction on both domestic and international trade flows in … those supported by multilateral development banks. We find that road construction helped to reduce trade costs significantly … internal trade costs decreases by 20%, and the ad valorem rate of international trade costs decreases, on average, by 15 …

Trade encourages economic expansion and improves welfare based on international division of labor. However, trade also …

The central objective of our paper is to assess the opportunities and challenges for trade for Asian economies during … the low-carbon transition. To do so, we examine the green trade patterns of Asian Development Bank member economies in the … equipment, account for the largest share of green trade. In fact, since the early 2010s, the shares of Asian economies in world …

trade with the PRC can become an engine of growth for developing Asia. To do so, we examine the structure of PRC's trade … consumer and less of an assembler. This provides ground for optimism about the prospects of trade with the PRC as a source of …

Governance is one of the key factors that shape the economic performance of an economy in terms of economic and trade … with good trade governance can compile high quality trade statistics; the latter being a close proxy for the former. This … study comes up with a global ranking of the quality of (trade) governance. The paper also compares our bias-free indicator …

We synthetically assess the three major transmission channels of international business cycles: bilateral trade … cycle comovement. Trade integration, particularly through intermediate input trade, drives business cycle synchronization …. We also find greenfield FDI leads business cycle comovements. This may be due to deepening intra-industry trade and dense …

since the early 1990s. In areas such as trade, investment, labor markets, technology, and policy coordination, regional …

We analyze the relationship between food security and trade, focusing on food importers' exposure to sudden market …), which gauges the degree to which a country depends on another for food imports. Food trade maps are drawn by the application …

Global supply chain (GSC) trade has been a driving force underlying economic transformation, urbanization, and social … shows mixed results. On the one hand, global integration through trade expansion improved the concentration of men and women … manufacturing for GSC trade increased faster than male employment. This trend decreased in turn the male-female sex ratio among …