Small and poor countries pose a challenge for the World Trade Organization (WTO). These countries have acquired a …

The paper analyses the potential trade impact of the forthcoming East African Community (EAC) customs union. It … examines the trade linkages among the member countries of the EAC and the extent to which the introduction of the EAC common … external tariff will liberalize their trade regimes. To gauge the potential trade impact of the formation of the customs union …

One of the most significant recent developments in world trade has been the entry of China into the World Trade … Organization (WTO). This paper examines the implications of China's WTO accession for India's trade, using both econometrics and …

Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the Asia-Pacific region have proliferated rapidly over the past five years and … are creating a complex web of intersecting bilateral and regional trade agreements. This paper describes the proliferation …, and to enforce agreements. Other factors, including administrative complications, also could undermine any potential gains. …

effect of the agreement in spurring a dramatic increase in trade and financial flows between Mexico and its NAFTA partners … regional free trade arrangements should be used to accelerate, rather than postpone, needed structural reform. …

to their growth outlooks. For emerging markets, this financial channel trumps the trade channel. For a broader set of … developing countries, however, the trade channel seems to have mattered, with countries exporting more advanced manufacturing …