We assess the literature on public and private quality standards and their impact in food markets, international trade …, and global supply chains. We focus on their effects on welfare, trade, industrial organization, and labor markets and with … impediment against trade and development, reflecting the complexity of these effects and their specificity to industries and …

This paper presents promising methodologies for modeling and quantifying nontariff barriers (NTB) to trade in the … on trade and to methods that provide some quantitative estimates of the impact of such barriers on market equilibrium …, trade flows, economic efficiency, and welfare. Given the heterogeneous nature of these regulations, a unifying methodology …

There is no consensus about how globalization –trade and foreign investments – affects poverty reduction. Using … household-level implications of increased foreign investments and trade in the horticulture sector in Senegal. In many aspects …

sugar program; a second section is devoted to the welfare and trade effects of the US sugar program; and a final section … program is becoming unsustainable because sugar imports are progressively creeping into the US market through regional trade … reductions in amber box limits under a potential Doha Agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The current support …

The debate on trade and poverty is reinforced by recent studies on the role of standards. It is argued that increasing … standards act as trade barriers for developing countries and cause further marginalization of the poor. This paper is the first … to quantify income and poverty effects of such high-standards trade and to integrate labor market effects, by using …

negative, but they are also influenced most by the global financial crisis. Finally, we find a significant link between trade …

This paper aims to identify the bilateral trade possibilities and non-tariff barriers between India and Pakistan. The … study shows that there is a large untapped trade potential between the two countries. Using the potential trade approach … categories, namely, quantitative restrictions, trade facilitation and customs procedures, technical barriers to trade and …

Under India-Korea Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, both India and Korea have offered trade liberalisation … trade between the two countries. Using the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) index, the paper shortlists four sectors of … interest and identifies possibilities of bilateral trade flows in these sectors in the purview of existing domestic regulatory …

role in realizing the trade potential between the two countries. Connecting India and Pakistan by the land route offers … connecting India and Pakistan to Central Asia and East Asia, this paper makes an attempt to examine trade between India and … while taking into account the implications of trade policy for transporting goods; suggests measures to address these …

clothing sector accounts for the largest share in trade between India and Pakistan chiefly because of the similarities in … culture and the importance of the sector in their economies. However, the level of bilateral trade in textile and clothing at … USD 722 million (2013) is dismal as compared to the trade potential of USD 2.10 billion. To make a case for increasing …