Since the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) program began in 1992, activities have expanded and flourished. The three … distribution of population and income, population pyramids of member countries, and trade relations of member economies. …

The North-South Economic Corridor (NSEC), the road between Bangkok and Kunming, China, including the Laos route (R3B …) and the Myanmar route (R3B), has been developed since 1998 following the GMS program. The region covering Yunnan Province … in China, Shan State in Myanmar, Northern Laos and Northern Thailand has historical and ethnic closeness, and is a …

capital goods to Myanmar, in particular through border trade. China also provides a large amount of economic cooperation in … the areas of infrastructure, energy and state-owned economic enterprises. Nevertheless, Myanmar’s trade with China has …Against the background of closer diplomatic, political and security ties between Myanmar and China since 1988, their …

In this paper I re-examined the trade enhancing effects of ethnic Chinese networks, found by Rauch and Trindade (2002 …. It is found that the former has stronger trade enhancing effects than the latter. This shows that the effects of ethnic … networks on international trade can be generalized beyond the ethnic Chinese, and the ’cohesiveness’ of the ethnic network …

The literature on trade openness, economic development, and the environment is largely inconclusive about the … environmental consequences of trade. This study review previous studies focusing on treating trade and income as endogenous and … estimating the overall impact of trade openness on environmental quality using the instrumental variables technique. The results …

This paper sheds light on the iron and steel (IS) scrap trade to examine how economic development affects the quality … of trade due to comparative advantage. We find that economic development in both importing and exporting countries has a …

could work as trade barrier for manufacturing activities in the region. …

through the trade. This mutual relationship between two countries can be expressed by the Nash-equilibrium in the Game theory …