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Accelerating regional integration : issues at the border
Brooks, Douglas Howard; Stone, Susan F. - 2010
The sharp decline in trade volume and value during the current economic crisis has contributed to lower transportation costs and reduced waiting times at border crossings, reducing the urgency of progress on trade facilitation. Meanwhile, greater trade is expected to play a key role in recovery,...
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Agriculture and food security in Asia by 2030
Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - 2012
gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity …
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Assessing the experience of South Asia-East Asia integration and India's role
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2014
This paper examines the gains for South Asian economies from integrating with East Asia and India's role in this process. Evidence of increased pan-Asian integration exists but the process is uneven. Bilateral trade has grown. Bilateral foreign direct investment flows and free trade agreements...
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Economic implications of deeper South Asian-Southeast Asian integration : a CGE approach
Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Morgan, Peter J.; Plummer, Michael G. - 2014
South and Southeast Asian economic integration via increased trade flows has been increasing significantly over the past 2 decades, but the level of trade continues to be relatively low. This underperformance has been due to both policy-related variables - relatively high tariff and non-tariff...
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Bayesian gravity model for digitalization on bilateral trade integration in Asia
Jayasooriya, S. P. - 2021
determining trade integration, testing for digitization using the Bayesian gravity equation is vital. After performing a series of … digitalization in Asia. The Bayesian approach of the gravity model gives robust estimates for determining the impact factor for the … the gravity equation is used for understanding trade potential, and after some integrations, the estimation is applied for …
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Towards "Trade Policy Analysis 2.0 " : from national comparative advantage to firm-level trade data
Cernat, Lucian - 2015
This paper makes the case for the need to "upgrade" current analytical tools used for trade policy analysis and complement them with more detailed firm-level data. Such an upgrade should be based on the latest intellectual advancements in trade theories and the latest firm-level trade statistics...
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Productivity and trade growth in services : how services helped power factory Asia
Shepherd, Ben - 2019
This paper uses a theory-based measure of productivity-based comparative advantage to examine the trade performance of developing Asian economies in manufacturing and services over the 1995-2011 period. We find that the growth in service exports was nearly as rapid as that in manufacturing over...
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The People's Republic of China's import competition and skill demand in Japanese manufacturing
Yamashita, Nobuaki - 2017
This paper examines the hypothesis that manufacturing industries in Japan that have been exposed to import competition from the People's Republic of China (PRC) experience greater skill upgrading (increased demand for skilled workers). Using an industry panel dataset over the period 1980-2010,...
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Socioeconomic impacts of cross-border transport infrastructure development in South Asia
Gilbert, John P.; Banik, Nilanjan - 2010
Although the overall economic performance of economies in South Asia in recent years has been impressive, there is concern that an aging and increasingly inadequate infrastructure may limit the potential for further growth and economic development. A critical infrastructure component is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003983208
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Global financial crisis : implications for trade and industrial restructuring in India
De, Prabir; Neogi, Chiranjib - 2011
This study investigates the impact of global crisis shocks on India's trade and industry. We use both panel data modeling and vector autoregression techniques to understand the dynamic effects of global crisis shocks on Indian industry and trade. The estimated results of panel data models show...
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