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Trade finance shortfalls now appear regularly. Does this matter for trade expansion and economic development in developing countries? Global trade finance has resumed following the 2009 global financial crisis. However, the pattern of recovery has been uneven across countries and categories of...
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and deeper paperless trade provisions than those featured in the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement. A more detailed …
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The continued difficulties of the World Trade Organization to achieve further multilateral trade liberalization in the Doha Round negotiations have raised questions about its continued relevance. This paper firstly identifies and assesses the key developments in the Doha Round that have...
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Looking back at the history of the World Trade Organization (WTO), major accords that have been reached under the … to the crucial role they can play in resolving the stalemate at the WTO and the Doha Round and the accelerating … proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs). Through analysis of their characteristics compared with the WTO and FTAs, the paper …
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This paper provides an account of the resort in recent years by governments in the Asia Pacific region to discrimination against foreign commercial interests. As in previous systemic economic crises, policymakers altered the mix of discriminatory policies employed. This time around governments...
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inability of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Development Round to lower global trade barriers significantly. In joining …
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This paper discusses trade facilitation in the context of enhancing trading links between South and Southeast Asia, in a manner understandable to the non-specialist. Presently, these two Asian regions tend to trade preferentially with distant markets. One of the reasons cited for the limited...
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)/World Trade Organization (WTO) system. It explores the implications of various stresses to the performance of Factory Asia such as …-the-border regulatory barriers, the failure to conclude ambitious WTO multilateral trade negotiations, and the relative exclusion of small …
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South and Southeast Asian economic integration via increased trade flows has been increasing significantly over the past 2 decades, but the level of trade continues to be relatively low. This underperformance has been due to both policy-related variables - relatively high tariff and non-tariff...
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This paper makes the case for the need to "upgrade" current analytical tools used for trade policy analysis and complement them with more detailed firm-level data. Such an upgrade should be based on the latest intellectual advancements in trade theories and the latest firm-level trade statistics...
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