Expanding trade with East Asia’s "Big Three" economic giants - the People's Republic of China (PRC), Japan, and the … actively pursuing trade liberalization with the Big Three. The central objective of this paper is to qualitatively and … quantitatively assess the different permutations of ASEAN’s free trade agreements (FTAs) with the Big Three (e.g., ASEAN-PRC, ASEAN …

-Korea Free Trade Area (AKFTA) a case in point. This paper qualitatively and quantitatively examines the economic feasibility of …-dimensional analysis provides some, but not overwhelming, support for AKFTA's prospects as an effective means of promoting trade between …

This paper investigates the effect of trade integration on military conflict. Our empirical analysis,based on a large … panel data set of 290,040 country-pair observations from 1950 to 2000, confirms that an increase in bilateral trade … interdependence and global trade openness significantly promotes peace. It also suggests that the effect of trade openness varies …

their capabilities to meet market demand and to reduce supply-side constraints such as a lack of trade infrastructure. In …Aid for Trade (AfT) came to prominence just over a decade ago at the launch of the World Trade Organization’s Doha … accordance with that objective, this report lays out an applied framework for prioritizing potential trade-related interventions …

The formation of a Regional Technical Group (RTG) on Aid for Trade for Asia and the Pacific was a key recommendation to … emerge from the Aid for Trade Regional Review Meeting at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters in Manila in 2007 and … the Global Aid for Trade Review Meetings at the World Trade Organization in Geneva in 2007 and 2009. Reflecting the …

Logistics includes material flow, information flow, and financial flow between the point of supply and the point of …