The Bagwell and Staiger (1990) theory of cooperative trade agreements predicts new tariffs (i) increase with imports …

Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by … the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of … unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature touches on important linkages between trade and FDI in services and the …

India has a large positive trade balance in the apparel sector and is ranked among the top 10 apparel exporting … Trade Organization's Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures and second, India is negotiating mega-regional trade … presents India's trade in apparel products by sub-sectors and key markets, and analyses its trade competitiveness across …

Services are a major component of global gross domestic product and employment, and a rising component of global trade … foreign investment flows. India is among the top ten World Trade Organization member countries in trade in services, and the … country has a positive trade balance in services. However, global trade in services faces a number of barriers at the border …

This paper argues that the empirical trade-growth relationship should be modelled using a dynamic panel data approach … than previous results. They confirm the existence of a strong causal effect of trade on growth but fail to find evidence … for trade as an independent factor of divergence. Hence, one cannot blame trade as such for the disappointing performance …

We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure …, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. We are interested … in threshold effects, and so emphasize those cases where bilateral country pairs do not actually trade. We depart from …

international trade. We outline a model exemplifying some of these linkages, describe several methods for investigating two …-way feedbacks between various categories of trade, and apply them to the recent experience of developing countries. After … between FDI and manufacturing trade. More precisely, applying Geweke (1982)'s decomposition method, we find that most of the …

, regulation of trade and investment flows, and gender-sensitive public sector spending. …