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This paper asks how opening up of wheat and sugar trade between two nuclear neighbours, India and Pakistan, would … affect welfare in the two countries. We conduct a partial equilibrium analysis to simulate welfare implications of trade … between the two countries under three alternative trade regimes : a) under an FTA between India and Pakistan, b) under SAFTA …
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Vietnam faces alternative options in opening its economy to trade. It is about to join the World Trade Organization; as … a member of the ASEAN Free Trade Area it is contemplating extending the regional trade area to include China, Korea and … Japan; and it has recently concluded a bilateral agreement with the United States. Opening up to trade is a two-edged sword …
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largest in FDI inflow, the third largest in foreign trade, the fourth largest in GDP, and an important engine for the global … the two largest markets. East Asia accounts for half of Chinas foreign trade and more than 70% of FDI inflow. Chinas trade … with South Asia is still small in volume, but high in growth rate. With the emergence of the Indian economy, trade and …
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It has become an article of faith in international trade negotiations that farmers in developing countries have much to … gain from agricultural trade liberalization. This paper assesses the evidence for such claims. It concludes that the … promise of agricultural trade liberalization is overstated, while the costs to small-scale farmers in developing countries are …
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Issues of Trade and Connectivity with India have attracted renewed attention in recent times following the visit of the … best serves Bangladesh’s interests, and maximises Bangladesh’s potential benefits in the identified areas of trade in goods …
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The service sector is evolving. New services and new modes of delivering existing services have increased the complexities of services negotiations in the WTO and in FTAs. The WTO negotiations focus on market access but FTAs tend to go beyond market access to seeking regulatory commitments from...
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Employment is a major concern in the context of trade liberalization. At one level, productive employment is a major … body of literature which shows that trade is good for economic growth which in turn should be good for poverty reduction … element in determining the poverty reducing outcome of growth. Second, while trade may be good for growth, it does not …
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trade facilitation at border crossing, logistic costs are 13-14% of the value compared to 8% in USA. Transport …
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Bangladesh has pursued export-led industrialisation as a major development strategy over more than two decades now • Considerable progress has been achieved in this effort; export structure has tended to remain narrow and undiversified • Export of apparels is accounted for 79% of...
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The study suggests an approach to reduce India’s sensitive list under SAFTA. The concept of Revealed Comparative Advantage has been used to pair the RCAs for products on India’s sensitive list with the corresponding RCAs of the SAARC countries. Four categories of items are...
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