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 … employing treatment-and-control analysis. We find that a specific treatment, liberalizing tariffs on imported capital and …

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly dealing with challenges shaped by the new geopolitical and trade … environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of … technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures. Although trade costs associated with these …

This paper presents a new measure of aggregate trade restrictions (MATR) using data from the International Monetary … of trade restrictiveness but is more comprehensive in terms of country and time coverage. It is available for an … unbalanced sample of up to 157 countries during 1949-2019. We use MATR to re-examine how trade restrictiveness varies with the …

role in realizing the trade potential between the two countries. Connecting India and Pakistan by the land route offers … connecting India and Pakistan to Central Asia and East Asia, this paper makes an attempt to examine trade between India and … while taking into account the implications of trade policy for transporting goods; suggests measures to address these …

, which may potentially negatively affect international trade. Customs around the world have therefore implemented security …-motivated certification programs to facilitate licit trade. These programs offer trustworthy trading firms, i.e., Authorized Economic …

higher tariffs by way of being in India's sensitive list are much higher than that for Pakistan. Bilateral trade is more … clothing sector accounts for the largest share in trade between India and Pakistan chiefly because of the similarities in … culture and the importance of the sector in their economies. However, the level of bilateral trade in textile and clothing at …

The auto sector in Pakistan has been a persistent opponent of trade liberalisation in the country. This has entailed …

Under India-Korea Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, both India and Korea have offered trade liberalisation … trade between the two countries. Using the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) index, the paper shortlists four sectors of … interest and identifies possibilities of bilateral trade flows in these sectors in the purview of existing domestic regulatory …

With the ongoing trade normalisation process between India and Pakistan, opportunities to integrate have opened up … segment to focus on in improving trade relations between the two countries. Here, an empirical and theoretical analysis of … India-Pakistan trade using some statistical indicators reveals low levels of current trade but huge trade potential. Since …

trade between India and Pakistan. We explain the comparative advantages of both countries at a disaggregated level, followed … to trade with India. We find that a gradual opening up of pharmaceutical trade with India may allow Pakistan to enhance …