The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the GATS/Telecom Agreement. This is done by looking at the guiding principles …

This paper examines liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in a number of Asian countries and the role …

Based on the first comprehensive mapping of telecommunications provisions telecommunications in regional trade … agreements (RTAs), this paper shows that telecommunications provisions in RTAs have evolved and expanded significantly over the … years. While some provisions focus on information and communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure, policy and …

reviewing the different types of provisions on telecommunications found in RTAs that have been notified to the World Trade …Although a growing number of regional trade agreements (RTAs) include telecommunications provisions, the collection and … systematization of information on telecommunications provisions in RTAs remain limited. This paper addresses this gap by mapping and …

It has sometimes been argued that "globalization" benefits only a small number of countries, and that this leads to … greater marginalization of excluded countries. This paper argues that globalization is not necessarily biased towards greater …, marginalization is not intrinsic to globalization. Key Words: Globalization, international trade and investment flows concentration. …

Proper measurement and aggregation of trade costs is of paramount importance for sound academic and policy analysis of … the determinants - particularly those of policy - of economic outcomes. The international trade profession has witnessed …

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a discussion among researchers and policy makers about … different arguments for policy interventions by governments. After this analysis international cooperation of trade policies and …

Geopolitical conflicts have increasingly been a driver of trade policy. We study the potential effects of global and …