According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries’ growth would benefit from reductions in barriers to trade …. However, the empirical basis for judging trade reforms is weak. Econometrics are mostly ad hoc; results are typically not …

With the trade normalization process between India and Pakistan gathering momentum since November 2011, new … opportunities for enhancing bilateral trade have opened between the two countries. This study estimates the trade potential between … India and Pakistan, and examines how this potential can be realized. Using the Trade Possibility Approach for all items …

As Latin America and the Caribbeans "Great Liberalization" reaches its 30th anniversary, we revisit the trade and …

This paper analyses the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between EU and India focusing on services trade. Based on … agreement and next predict the impact on services trade flows using a general equilibrium structural gravity analysis. I find …'s trade with the rest of the world would not change much, while India's exports to the rest of the world would decline by …

The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals … manufacturing trade, have gone further and that this is likely one of the key determinants of better economic performance of China … trade and FDI in manufactured goods has spurred the emergence of a largely private sector. On the other hand the high level …

This paper contributes to two strands of literature on empirical models of trade flows and trade policy. The first and … the older strand is that of gravity models of bilateral trade flows going back to Hans Linneman (1966) and Tinbergen (1962 … Trade Agreements (PTAs). Our focus is on applying the gravity model to analyze India’s trade flows (exports and imports …

This paper explores the relationship between preferential and multilateral trade liberalization at the sectoral level …. While in some industries, complementary effects between both kinds of trade liberalization are observed, in others no …

Political debates and economic analyses often focus on single free trade agreements and their potential economic … trade agreements in the context of countries' positions in worldwide trade agreement networks, by combining network theory … with gravity trade modelling. We illustrate, both numerically and graphically, the evolution of the global web of trade …