multilateralize it. The paper first reviews free trade agreement (FTA) developments, and discusses the characteristics and motives of …

Serious efforts at economic integration among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members started only … small extent of intra-ASEAN trade, and the wide differences in economic size, development level, and industrial competence … giving rise to widely divergent perceptions of benefits and costs of integration. The switch to outward-looking development …

for Pacific economies when participating in the world economy. The paper first describes the evolution of trade flows of … the Pacific economies over the last decade, in terms of both trade in goods and services. It then introduces two new … connections within the Pacific and with the rest of the world. Combining both datasets with the corresponding trade flows allows …

Free trade agreements (FTAs) have become a prominent feature of the multilateral trading system and an important … instrument of trade policy for members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The proliferation of FTAs is the result of a number … proliferation of FTAs in east Asia benefits the regional trade and economic growth, questions have been raised about Asian noodle …

This paper shows that regional trade integration shifts the burden of the exchange rate adjustment towards the less … countries since 1990 that have been envolved in regional trade integration through signing regional trade agreements (RTAs ….7% deterioration of the aggregate trade balance. Second, I confirm that RTA participation can act as a good proxy for trade integration …

Digital trade facilitation refers to the application of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) to … simplify and automate international trade procedures. It is rapidly becoming essential to maintaining trade competitiveness and … dematerializing trade data and documents and enabling their electronic exchange, commonly referred to as paperless trade measures, are …

In this paper, the literature on trade and development is surveyed, especially that regarding the role of … complementarities associated with trade infrastructure. The empirical literature shows that, on average, trade causes growth, but the … investment in soft and hard infrastructure has an unambiguously positive impact on trade flows, the theoretical literature argues …

This paper presents an overview of the trade and policy issues in the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals … the attention they merit, despite their profound consequences on how to use - or not use - trade policies for promoting … development. Following this, it examines the three major phases in the MDG/SDG progress: first, a pro-trade agenda during the …