infrastructure investment needs for enhancing Eurasian freight transport. Since its establishment in 2011, CR Express has … evolution of the global trade landscape, the robust and steadily growing trade relationship between the PRC and Europe provides … a solid foundation for CR Express to sustain its growth momentum. CR Express is also poised to capitalize on the growing …

application programming interface for banks; (2) faster payment system (FPS) and common QR code standard for retail payments; (3 …) trade finance initiatives; and (4) virtual banking. HKMA has devoted substantial resources to research and application. Some …

The paper argues that East Asia is setting the pace for the recent trend in regional and inter-regional integration … the People's Republic of China and Japan's "Partnership for Quality Infrastructure" (PQI). After introducing key issues … movers, with the establishment of the European Investment Bank for instance, but its mechanisms have so far not become …

To what extent do the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, and the World Bank remain central today … course of global governance in health, trade, and development finance has changed irreversibly. Second, regional arrangements … trade, and variation in multilateral development finance. Global governance in the 21st century is thus characterized by a …

Woman-owned firms engage differently with finance for trade. The barriers they face in starting and running a business … that finance is often the primary barrier to trade. We seek to deepen and modernize this finding by using a unique data set … of exclusion in access to finance - access to basic finance and access to trade finance. The latter is driven by …

transport and commercial requirements in the ISWE has to be incorporated through laws made for e-commerce and not through a … next logical step would be to internationalize and make them interoperable to allow for greater collaborative information … sharing. The purpose of this paper is to review the legal framework necessary for implementing international single window …

Although a latecomer, economically important Asia has emerged at the forefront of global free trade agreement (FTA … progress in the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Doha negotiations and the global financial crisis, however, Asian regionalism … seems to be here to stay and the focus for policymakers should be how best to minimize the costs of FTAs while maximizing …

Some services directly produce outputs that are important for human development, such as basic human services. Many … other services are important inputs into the production and distribution of goods that are necessary for human development … cost effectively and more broadly. In line with this reasoning, we find in the data that less restrictive services trade …

The People's Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as a major player in the global economy and considers free trade … intermediate goods. Immediately after its accession to the World Trade Organization in December 2001, the PRC adopted a regional … approach to trade and began negotiating and implementing FTAs. This paper analyzes the results of a survey undertaken across …

particular relevance for policy considerations is that the results vary considerably across bilateral trade routes and commodity …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 …