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 …

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. …

Regional integration has been seen in Africa as a means of encouraging trade and securing economies of scale. This … paper examines in detail the prospects and challenges for trade expansion in the two most prominent arrangements in eastern … Community (SADC). It finds that possibilities of growth in intraregional trade may be limited, but that the two arrangements …

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

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

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 …