China's sectoral trade composition, product quality mix, and import content of processing exports have all changed … substantially during the past decade. This has rendered trade elasticities estimated using aggregate data highly unstable, with more …

The paper analyses the potential trade impact of the forthcoming East African Community (EAC) customs union. It … examines the trade linkages among the member countries of the EAC and the extent to which the introduction of the EAC common … external tariff will liberalize their trade regimes. To gauge the potential trade impact of the formation of the customs union …

The effect of exchange rate volatility on trade flows was examined by a 1984 IMF study on G-7 countries. Over the past … exchange hedging instruments, may have reduced the impact of volatility on trade flows. Using recent advances in the economic … theories on trade and in statistical methodologies, this paper revisits this important issue by taking into account these new …

" foreign direct investment, and the empirical literature on trade and growth. Finally we use a numerical simulation model of …

One of the most significant recent developments in world trade has been the entry of China into the World Trade … Organization (WTO). This paper examines the implications of China's WTO accession for India's trade, using both econometrics and …

Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the Asia-Pacific region have proliferated rapidly over the past five years and … are creating a complex web of intersecting bilateral and regional trade agreements. This paper describes the proliferation …

effect of the agreement in spurring a dramatic increase in trade and financial flows between Mexico and its NAFTA partners … regional free trade arrangements should be used to accelerate, rather than postpone, needed structural reform. …

This paper examines the factor intensity of South Africa's trade. The conclusion is that South Africa is revealed … though its trade pattern to be capital abundant (relative to labor). Surprisingly, this result holds especially for South … Africa's trade with its high income partners, which should presumably have been more capital-rich than South Africa. Moreover …