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How does digital trade impact women traders?

Russo, Renee N. - 2024

This paper explores the potential opportunities and challenges digital trade poses for women traders globally and in Asia-Pacific. This paper highlights policy areas using a gendered approach to digital trade. Given the varied and interrelated issues, a public-private-societal effort is needed...

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East Asian trade integration in the era of global value chains : prospects and challenges

Yamashita, Nobuaki - 2021

This paper examines trade integration of East Asian countries through the lens of global value chains (GVCs). It first gauges the extent and involvement of trade in value-added (TiVA) for East Asian countries. The analysis confirms that reliance on backward GVC participation outside of the...

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If the US-China trade war is here to stay, what are the risks and opportunities for other GVC economies outside the war zone?

Witada Anukoonwattaka; Romao, Pedro; Lobo, Richard S. - 2021

. Continuing bilateral trade tensions between the world's largest economic powerhouse scan be expected to have significant impacts … on the rest of the world. While it is intuitive to conclude that bilateral trade restrictions create new opportunities … tensions between the world's two largest economies will continue to pressure international trade downwards, while accelerating …

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Trade and trade facilitation along the Belt and Road Initiative corridors

Ramasamy, Bala; Yeung, Matthew C. H.; Utoktham, Chorthip; … - 2017

The Belt Road Initiative (BRI) suggested by China’s President Xi Jinping provides an ambitious vision encouraging a new level of cooperation among countries along several economic corridors spanning most of the Asian economies member of ESCAP. This paper reviews the trade and trade...

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Value chain development for deeper integration of East Asia and Latin America

Shepherd, Benjamin - 2020

This paper uses new data from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and its partners, including the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), to track the importance of trade within global value chains in East Asia and Latin America. The analysis shows that while value chain...

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South-south cooperation in the era of global value chains : what can China offer?

Yao, Shunli - 2018

China is a success story of inclusive trade growth as a result of its participation in Global Value Chains (GVCs). It is in transition from a processing and assembly hub towards an innovation centre, and is becoming a regional supplier of research and development (R&D) intensive parts and...

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Enabling participation of SMEs in international trade and production networks : trade facilitation, trade finance and communication technology

Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip - 2014

This study aimed at identifying key factors affecting SME participation in direct export and international production networks (IPNs), both globally and in Asia and the Pacific. A global dataset of firm-level data from developing countries was analyzed to identify the main obstacles to...

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Does access to finance facilitates the firm's ability to export? : experience from Asia-Pacific countries

Kumarasamy, Durairaj; Singh, Prakash - 2016

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...

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Trade in value added : concepts, estimation and analysis

Javorsek, Marko; Camacho, Ignacio - 2015

This working paper introduces the concept of Trade in Value Added (TiVA) and presents an initial analysis of TiVA for selected regional ESCAP economies. The paper introduces Global Value Chains (GVCs) and issues for the measurement of trade statistics due to proliferation of GVCs. It further...

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Is world trade becoming more regionalised?

Lloyd, Peter J.; Mikić, Mia; Jacob, Arun; Kravchenko, … - 2018

The proliferation of RTAs is a central feature of the world trade policy environment in the last 20 years. This paper … provides an empirical study of the extent to which the formation of RTAs has changed the distribution of world goods trade … between pairs of countries in each year. On average for the world economy this measure does not increase over the sample …

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