symptom of an inverted U relationship between growth and inequality. It shows that trade and initial level per capita income …

communication technology - contributes to integration by reducing transaction costs and facilitating intraregional trade and … Asia will bring significant opportunities for industrial development in India and trade potential with South and East Asian …

Relation between trade, inequality and poverty within countries is not beyond controversy. Under free trade and … competitive conditions, trade promotes growth, and growth reduces poverty. In general, trade liberalisation has long been seen as … an important element of an effective and sound economic policy and trade facilitation is a necessary step for achieving …

the Bay of Bengal countries overcome divisions that impede the flow of trade in goods and services, people and ideas …

improved trade facilitation could bring huge gain as a large part of Indo-Pacific trade has remained unrealized. The trade … transaction cost is one of the major trading barriers prohibiting the growth of Indo-Pacific intra-regional trade. The study … reinforces that improvement in infrastructure and connectivity that leads to less trade transportation costs should be a …

cooperation should aim to reduce both intra- and inter- regional trade facilitation gaps as well as to expand the connectivity …. South Asia has to enact its own connectivity and trade facilitation arrangement to take forward the agenda of South Asian … trade facilitation and connectivity in the region. South Asia connectivity needs a new vision to compete globally. This …