This research paper is aimed at understanding why border trade policies are today complemented with behind …

of trade. By increasing the cost of external finance, a financial shock increases the financial cost of exporting and …

The Agreement on South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) entered its second phase of implementation in 2008. The creation … of a free trade area is expected to affect its participants—Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and … Sri Lanka—very differently given their diversity in terms of size, income, and structure of trade and protection. Using …

attention. Interest in this topic is motivated by the increasing presence of China in the region and the growing bilateral trade …

"The objective of this paper is to review the agricultural trade and domestic policies of the Philippines and to … provide an assessment of the types and levels of domestic support relative to the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO …). Changes in trade protection and support in the Philippines, including tariff structure, quantitative restrictions, and …

trade-distorting support among member countries. An overwhelming majority of farmers in Japan own small plots of rice paddy … trade-distorting (amber box) support and/or transforming traditional-type agricultural subsidies to decoupled-type ones … reduction of trade-distorting effects. On the contrary, the 2007 reform may in fact stimulate domestic rice production. In 2007 …

but have subsequently tracked export parity international levels following reforms to trade and pricing policies and a …

"This paper examines past and proposed U.S. domestic support in light of current and potential World Trade Organization … WTO of domestic support from 1995 to 2005 and provides a preliminary notification estimate for 2006. Green-box (non trade …