? Data from South Asia suggest that member states have minor trade linkages and face asymmetrical patterns of shocks. This …

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 … potential gains from Asia-Pacific PTAs requires a commitment to liberalize sensitive sectors, to maintain consistent provisions …

good practice and it is necessary to speed up implementation if revenue, trade facilitation, and trade chain security …

This paper examines the role of Japan against that of China in the exchange rate regime in East Asia in light of …, Japan does not appear to be a dominant player in forming a currency union in East Asia, and this trend is likely to continue … if China's relative presence continues to rise in the regional trade. …

In this paper we estimate gravity models to see whether trade volumes of countries in the MENA region are significantly … show that the variables used in standard gravity models cannot explain a significant part of MENA's trade performance … inefficiencies in customs clearance processes, are important in explaining the MENA region's underperformance in trade. …

financing have together moved commercial activities-trade and investment-to the center of China-Africa economic relations. While …

This paper analyzes trade in the Caribbean community (CARICOM) using a gravity model framework. The paper seeks to shed … light on the dynamics of trade among CARICOM member countries, as well with the rest of world over 1980–99. Overall, the … results show that intra-CARICOM trade has increased, suggesting that further regional integration is desirable. At the same …

Is the recent proliferation of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) in Asia a healthy development, or runs the risk of … results show that membership in the Asian RTAs considered in this study have not, to date, occurred at the expense of trade … and multilateral liberalization, could run the risk of leading to costly trade diversion. …