This paper explores issues relating to informal trade in the SAARC region. It spells out the reasons underpinning … illegal trade in the South Asian region. Further it focuses on the estimated size and composition of informal trade in the … region and highlights its relationship to formal trade. The study examines the modalities under which such trade prospers. It …

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 …

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade on interregional inequality within countries. While … inequality depends on weighted trade shares and trade costs and where we can derive an aggregate freeness of trade measure. These … measures are instrumented based on constructed trade shares and trade costs fitted from a gravity panel model of bilateral …

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within … on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to the standard trade-to-GDP ratio, we derive and propose an … aggregate freeness-of-trade measure based on phiness of trade. Both measures are instrumented by proxies constructed from …

regional inequality. Geography, mobility and trade openness are also highly important. …

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade on interregional inequality within countries. While … inequality depends on weighted trade shares and trade costs and where we can derive an aggregate freeness of trade measure. These … measures are instrumented based on constructed trade shares and trade costs fitted from a gravity panel model of bilateral …

regional inequality. Geography, mobility and trade openness are also highly important. …

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 …