through regional collaboration in the form of bilateral and regional trade agreements. Regional cooperation and integration … can facilitate the way for expanding markets and creating trade opportunities. However, market-led integration in South … highly integrated trade, investment, and production space. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC …

Nations (ASEAN) free trade agreements (FTAs). It begins with a review of the historical evolution of ASEAN FTAs, which … captures the achievements of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) and the efforts meant to lead to a further step of deeper …

Trade in health products has been flourishing in recent years as the demand for better health has been growing … throughout the world. At the same time, trade in health products is hampered by substantive trade barriers. In this paper, we … availability of health-related products such as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and medical equipment. The case for liberalizing trade …

Growing internationalization of firms in Asia through participation in global value chains (GVCs) and free trade … development are also positively associated with SMEs joining GVCs. Furthermore, increased exposure to international trade …

This paper shows that regional trade integration shifts the burden of the exchange rate adjustment towards the less … integrated trading partners. Thus, they bear the cost of trade balance expansion, while competitive exchange rate moves vis …-a-vis RTA trading partners result in no expansion or deterioration of the overall trade balance. First, using the data on 138 …

This paper proposes a new method to predict the impact of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on trade and welfare … trade agreements notified to the WTO, we first construct an indicator comparing existing PTAs to the TPP in terms of textual … similarity. In a second step, we include this indicator into a gravity model of international trade in order to estimate the …

The development of transport corridors and better trade facilitation enhance cross-border trade flows and stimulate … trade facilitation indicators (TFIs) on trade flows in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) transport … corridors and offer policy implications for strengthening trade facilitation. Using the Corridor Performance Measurement and …

The objective of this paper is twofold. First, it examines the effects of the implementation of trade facilitation (TF …) measures on international trade flows and on participation in global value chains (GVCs). Second, it provides policy … trade flows. The data used are from the UN Global Surveys on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation, covering 144 …

factors, including good governance, trade openness, and foreign direct investment. …