recent ARTNeT working papers as well as other relevant literature: (a) trade facilitation and regional trade agreements and … initiatives; (b) trade facilitation and customs valuation; and (c) trade facilitation and services. …

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

Intra-ASEAN trade has increased six-fold since 1993 but greater integration challenge looms in addressing non …

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 …

Financial development plays an important role in the structure of the trade balance and promoting economic development …. Trade literature suggests that differences in economies' endowments of labour, land, physical capital and technology explain … the dynamics and patterns of international trade flows. More recent literature argues that it is the heterogeneity in …

the estimation technique to the economy of Thailand. Topalova (2010) found that trade liberalization in India has … exposed to trade openness, experienced less poverty reduction and slower consumption growth. The effects of trade reform on … provinces with a greater exposure to trade reforms. Labour mobility is a potential channel underpinning this effect. Furthermore …

In 2019 and the early months of 2020, global trade faced two major albeit very different shocks, namely the United … States-China trade war and the cascading response of the countries around the world to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the … broad swathe of tradeables that made a global trade environment highly unpredictable, the latter has seen entire production …

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 … an important element of an effective and sound economic policy and trade facilitation is a necessary step for achieving …

The scope and depth of bilateral and regional preferential trade agreements (RTAs) negotiated over the past 15 years …, including trade facilitation. This study is a first attempt to measure the extent to which RTA provisions related to those … featured in the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) contribute to reducing trade costs. Inclusion of such provisions in RTAs …

The informal meeting of core Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT) research institutions … research institutions are, their existing trade research capacity and how this differs across countries. This study sets out to … address the key following issues: What are the existing trade research capacities of research institutions in LDCs and low …