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Myanmar's engagement in regional integration: Status and way forward

De, Prabir - 2017

Recent restoration of democracy in Myanmar is one of the most important developments in the country's history and potentially of large significance for the region. Owing to its strategic position, Myanmar connects Asia's three big markets - Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), China,...

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Regional integration in Bay of Bengal region in post-COVID-19 period

De, Prabir - 2021

the Bay of Bengal countries overcome divisions that impede the flow of trade in goods and services, people and ideas …

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What role should connectivity play in reenergising South Asia?

De, Prabir; Kumarasamy, Durairaj - 2020

cooperation should aim to reduce both intra- and inter- regional trade facilitation gaps as well as to expand the connectivity …. South Asia has to enact its own connectivity and trade facilitation arrangement to take forward the agenda of South Asian … trade facilitation and connectivity in the region. South Asia connectivity needs a new vision to compete globally. This …

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Trade facilitation and poverty reduction in Asia and the Pacific: A case study of a South Asian economic corridor

De, Prabir; Raychaudhuri, Ajitava - 2013

trade between three major South Asian countries, namely, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan and also their global trade. One of …Relation between trade, inequality and poverty within countries is not beyond controversy. Under free trade and … competitive conditions, trade promotes growth, and growth reduces poverty. In general, trade liberalisation has long been seen as …

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Income convergence across asian economies : an empirical exploration

Ghatak, Sunetra; De, Prabir - In: Journal of Asia Pacific business 22 (2021) 3, pp. 182-200

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Trade facilitation in times of pandemic: Practices from South and South West Asia

De, Prabir - 2020

global and national lockdowns have caused havoc in the countries of South and South-West Asia (SSWA), with their trade … severely impacted. This paper investigates the subregion's experience implementing trade facilitation measures in the times of … COVID-19. The paper indicates that the SSWA countries have achieved remarkable progress in trade facilitation, especially as …

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The Burden of Proof in National Treatment Disputes and the Environment

Horn, Henrik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper examines the role of the burden of proof (BoP) in National Treatment (NT) disputes under trade agreements …

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Beyond the WTO? An Anatomy of EU and US Preferential Trade Agreements

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C; Sapir, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

It is often alleged that PTAs involving the EC and the US include a significant number of obligations in areas not currently covered by the WTO Agreement, such as investment protection, competition policy, labour standards and environmental protection. The primary purpose of this study is...

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A Survey of the Literature on the WTO Dispute Settlement System

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper surveys the law and economics literature on WTO dispute settlement. As a background, we first briefly lay out main features of the legal framework, and discuss possible roles of a dispute settlement mechanism. We then discuss the two main themes in the empirical literature on dispute...

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Is The Use Of The WTO Dispute Settlement System Biased?

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C; Nordström, Håkan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

The larger trading nations have been the main users of the WTO Dispute Settlement system during its first four years of existence (1995-1998). This has prompted a debate about whether the DS system is biased against smaller and poorer countries, for example, because of a lack of legal capacities...

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