The debate on the trade related environment issues has intensified in the Doha Round at WTO. The idea is to ensure … Trade and Environment and the Committee on Trade and Development at the WTO were asked to act as a forum in which the … approach the trade and environment debate in a new dimension. The project based approach instead of the usual list based …

integration. It then reviews the history and patterns of aidfortrade around the world during the period 1973-2005, drawing lessons … for future directions of aid-for-trade. …

Philippine population lives below the poverty line. With landless status, the poor depended largely on labor with its embedded … unskilled labor situation, and low rate of return on education at basic levels. The poor faced high rate of underemployment and … pro-poor. Furthermore, opportunity costs and their unfavorable outcomes in labor markets prevent further improvements of …

the analysis of trade flows using data on exports of individual firms. It is well known that in all countries of the world … relatively few firms participate in world trade, thus suggesting that characteristics of a firm (such as its size and … productivity) are relevant besides country level barriers on trade matter for participation in world trade. This strand is rapidly …

plantation commodities. The increase in imports is mostly driven by trade creation rather than trade diversion. From the economic … efficiency point of view, trade creation improves welfare as the new imports replace the high-cost domestic production. The …

This study examines the observable phenomenon of growing trade intensity among the ASEAN+3 countries over the last … twenty years by using standard gravity approach. While there is a conventional belief that trade intensities within CJK … intensified over time beyond the gravity residuals. Moreover, with the exclusion of Hong Kong, the fitted trade flows projected by …

This paper aims to analyse urban mobility patterns and consequent impacts on energy and environment in India. We …

important not just because of reputation risks to its trade, but because any regulation should be cost-effective and efficient …