This paper examines liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in a number of Asian countries and the role …

Based on the first comprehensive mapping of telecommunications provisions telecommunications in regional trade … agreements (RTAs), this paper shows that telecommunications provisions in RTAs have evolved and expanded significantly over the … years. While some provisions focus on information and communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure, policy and …

It has sometimes been argued that "globalization" benefits only a small number of countries, and that this leads to … greater marginalization of excluded countries. This paper argues that globalization is not necessarily biased towards greater …, marginalization is not intrinsic to globalization. Key Words: Globalization, international trade and investment flows concentration. …

Proper measurement and aggregation of trade costs is of paramount importance for sound academic and policy analysis of … the determinants - particularly those of policy - of economic outcomes. The international trade profession has witnessed …

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a discussion among researchers and policy makers about … different arguments for policy interventions by governments. After this analysis international cooperation of trade policies and …

In this paper, we investigate tourism-related policy approaches that WTO member countries adopted in the early weeks of …

COVID-19, caused by SARS-Cov-2, was declared to be a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. Since … technologies – a longstanding and enduringly important public policy issue – has become central to the debate on the linkages …

currency of settlement in international trade. This is not only the current direction of government policy but also that of …

Members and the negotiating results in two sectors (financial services and, in particular, basic telecommunications) that were …

development of their members. The key policy concern of the paper is that the elastic and selective nature of trade remedies may …