possibility of closing such gaps and linking the two regions through various trade and investment initiatives. The opportunities …

inability of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Development Round to lower global trade barriers significantly. In joining … failure of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) arrangement to foster trade liberalization in the region; and (iv) the … APEC, and its trade-focused Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement economic engagement with East Asia, and the EAS for …

services notified to the World Trade Organization (WTO) under Article V of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS … rules and liberalization commitments on services trade for WTO members. It addresses this question and its implications for …Since the early 1990s, regional trade agreements (RTAs) covering trade in services have proliferated, with 95 RTAs on …

using a dataset of 112 countries over the period 1970-2015. Our empirical analysis shows that democracy allows workers to … appropriate a higher share of national income. The evidence is robust to different indices of democracy and different periods of … recent global decline in the labor income share and current crisis of democracy. …

and deeper paperless trade provisions than those featured in the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement. A more detailed …Digital trade facilitation refers to the application of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) to … simplify and automate international trade procedures. It is rapidly becoming essential to maintaining trade competitiveness and …

, south of, and across the Caspian Sea. Since 1500, maritime transport has dominated trade between Europe and East Asia … from 1917 to 1991. Practically all the trade links ran north to the Russian Federation. In the 21st century, with the …, for trade in other goods, new transport corridors opened up more slowly until, in the 2010s, the PRC - EU rail links began …

Transportation corridors and reduced trade costs are essential to develop Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation … (CAREC) countries' foreign trade. However, to intensify intra-CAREC trade as well as the region's global exports, the product … as trade policy, coordination of sectoral policies, diversification, and business reforms. In particular, the countries …

areas of trade and finance. However, the region's economic architecture exhibits certain idiosyncrasies such as an eclectic … institutional form of East Asian regional trade and financial cooperation, particularly in the three essential aspects of … in the field of regional trade cooperation, the challenge is in redistributing the economic gains to those who stand to …