emerged with liberalisation and technological developments. Global e-commerce trade has seen fast growth, which is predicted … exploring the possibility of open, transparent and non-discriminatory e-commerce trade rules in the WTO. India has not joined …. India is also actively engaged in bilateral and regional trade agreements such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic …

key component of all new age trade agreements. However, there is neither a framework nor strategy for regulatory co …-operation, policy dialogue, initiatives and sharing of best practices at the APAC level to facilitate more cross-border trade. Given …, consumer privacy, crossborder payments, gaps in paperless trade, etc., that may impact the current and/or future growth of the …

systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade routes in the Old World. The theory argues that this particular type of geography … economic performance. It suggests that the unequal distribution of land endowments conferred differential gains from trade …, capital accumulation remained low and wealth inequality bounded. Geography and trade shaped the set of economically relevant …

The Melitz model highlights the importance of the extensive margin (the number of firms exporting) for trade flows …-level productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters, and use "exact hat algebra" to quantify the effects of a decline in trade costs on … trade flows and welfare in the estimated model. The welfare effects turn out to be quite close to those in the standard …