communication technology - contributes to integration by reducing transaction costs and facilitating intraregional trade and … Asia will bring significant opportunities for industrial development in India and trade potential with South and East Asian …

, south of, and across the Caspian Sea. Since 1500, maritime transport has dominated trade between Europe and East Asia … from 1917 to 1991. Practically all the trade links ran north to the Russian Federation. In the 21st century, with the …, for trade in other goods, new transport corridors opened up more slowly until, in the 2010s, the PRC - EU rail links began …

Transportation corridors and reduced trade costs are essential to develop Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation … (CAREC) countries' foreign trade. However, to intensify intra-CAREC trade as well as the region's global exports, the product … as trade policy, coordination of sectoral policies, diversification, and business reforms. In particular, the countries …

This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty … eradication using microeconomic and macroeconomic mechanisms and the effects of trade and trade policy on consumer prices … household may be lifted out of or pushed into poverty. The impacts of trade on growth and longer-term consequences of trade …

This paper assesses the interaction of international trade with climate policies, and the influence of trade on the … implementation of SDG 13 (climate change). Although international trade contributes directly to GHG emissions, increased trade can …. Given that emissions are not universally priced, the paper examines where policies related to trade may be misaligned with …

structural change impacts on inequality for a sample of advanced, emerging, and transition economies. Trade liberalization … found that the process of structural change increases income inequality, while trade liberalization and FDI inflows help to …

This paper presents an overview of the trade and policy issues in the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals … the attention they merit, despite their profound consequences on how to use - or not use - trade policies for promoting … development. Following this, it examines the three major phases in the MDG/SDG progress: first, a pro-trade agenda during the …

Trade in health products has been flourishing in recent years as the demand for better health has been growing … throughout the world. At the same time, trade in health products is hampered by substantive trade barriers. In this paper, we … availability of health-related products such as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and medical equipment. The case for liberalizing trade …