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Global Financial Crisis : Implications for Trade and Industrial Restructuring in India
De, Prabir; Neogi, Chiranjib - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
This study investigates the impact of global crisis shocks on India’s trade and industry. We use both panel data modeling and vector autoregression techniques to understand the dynamic effects of global crisis shocks on Indian industry and trade. The estimated results of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653165
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Regional Integration in the Americas : State of Play, Lessons, and Ways Forward
Estevadeordal, Antoni; Shearer, Matthew; Suominen, Kati - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
The Americas have been a key driver of regional trade agreements (RTAs) since the 1990s. This study considers the effect of these agreements on trade liberalization, and the lessons that this offers for other parts of the world, notably Asia. It finds broad geographical coverage of RTAs in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653171
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Rediscovering the Role of Developing Countries in GATT before the Doha Round
Ismail, Faizel - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Developing countries have been characterized as having played an essentially defensive role in the GATT, unwilling to make tariff concessions, and have focused almost exclusively on securing Special and Differential Treatment concessions. These three perspectives have become part of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363374
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Rules of Origin : Regimes in East Asia and Recommendations for Best Practice
Medalla, Erlinda M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
With globalization and advances in information and communication technology (ICT) leading to growing international production sharing, amidst the increasing trend in preferential trading arrangements (PTAs), rules of origin (ROO) has been beset with difficult recurring issues. First and foremost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363398
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Policy Issues for the ASEAN Economic Community : the Rules of Origin
Medalla, Erlinda M.; Yap, Josef T. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Striking a balance between trade facilitation and preventing trade deflection is the single most difficult challenge with regard to the issue of rules of origin (ROO). ASEAN ROO is already considered as among the simplest in the world and still, in practice, results fall short of expectations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363409
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Global Financial Crisis : Implications for Trade and Industrial Restructuring in India
De, Prabir; Neogi, Chiranjib - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This paper investigates the impact of global crisis shocks on Indias trade and industry. The estimated results show that changes in trade composition are positively associated with changes in manufacturing composition in India, controlling for other variables. While analysing its dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363484
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Suggested Rules of Origin Regime for EAFTA
Medalla, Erlinda M.; Supperamaniam, M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Determining origin within the context of international trade is not simple. Rules of Origin (ROOs) would involve laws, regulations and administrative determinations to ascertain a products country of origin which are not costless to comply with. As such, the criteria used to define origin and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365097
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Exchange Rate Policy and Regional Trade Agreements : A Case of Conflicted Interests?
Pomfret, Richard; Pontines, Victor - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
The results highlight the conflicting interests of countries — to stabilize exchange rates or to keep the option of exchange rate depreciation in order to maintain competitiveness of domestic tradable producers. With deepening integration in East Asia, however, the desire for exchange...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010901624
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Combed Cotton Yarn Exports of Pakistan to the US : A Dispute Settlement Case
Hussain, S. M. Turab - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
After giving an overview of the state of migration policy in developing countries with special reference to Pakistan … this paper essentially revisits the issue of policy and its effect on rural to urban migration under an extended family … theoretical framework. This specific approach is motivated by empirical literature on migration in the context of developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363434
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Trade, diaspora and migration to New Zealand
Law, David; Genc, Murat; Bryant, John - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
investigate the links between trade, migration and New Zealands diaspora. It clearly shows that inwards and outwards migration has … these links in mind in order to maximise the economic potential of migrants. If trade follows migration flows, then an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365128