scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …

Market integration is often associated with economic growth spillovers, to the extent that strengthened trade linkages … data approach to analyze the extent to which Africa and its major regional groupings have been able to generate shared … and a large rate of return to physical capital. The results also suggest that space has more to do with bilateral trade …

Using detailed global trade and novel Multi-Region Input-Output (MRIO) data, this paper examines the East African … Community's (EAC) global and regional integration through trade, global, and regional value chains (GVCs and RVCs). With … global and regional trade and production networks at the aggregate, bilateral, sectoral, and bilateral-sectoral levels. The …

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 …

through regional collaboration in the form of bilateral and regional trade agreements. Regional cooperation and integration … can facilitate the way for expanding markets and creating trade opportunities. However, market-led integration in South … highly integrated trade, investment, and production space. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC …

Nations (ASEAN) free trade agreements (FTAs). It begins with a review of the historical evolution of ASEAN FTAs, which … captures the achievements of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) and the efforts meant to lead to a further step of deeper …

African countries are negotiating the African Continental Free Trade Area with the aim to spearhead global value chain … (GVC) trade among African countries as a driver for robust economic growth. This paper evaluates the participation of Sub …-Saharan African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in GVC-related trade over the period 1990-2015 using measures of backward …

Global value chains offer countries unique opportunities to participate in and benefit from international trade by … chains positively impacts their growth; a positive impact which is driven by trade in commodities, knowledge intensive good …

The purpose of this paper is to examine factors influencing export in bilateral trade in the Middle-East context. The … study considers the bilateral trade flows across three Gulf Cooperation Council countries - the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA …, combined as one group, and KSA, which has a relatively larger economic mass and population. Data related to bilateral trade was …

This work identifies the main characteristics of trade flows between Colombia and Venezuela with MERCOSUR, with … specific discussion of trade with Brazil. It aims at providing a broad view of such trade flows, as well as presenting some … descriptive indicators of such trade relationship. A special treatment is adopted for specific products, namely oil and oil …