the SAARC share in world trade, but it has attracted more FDI inflows and its share has been rise in Asia and the world … implementation of the South Asian Preferential Trade Agreement (SAPTA) in 1995 under the broad framework of the South Asian … respectively. In 2008 the SAARC share of FDI inflows in Asia was 7.92 percent and 2.89 percent in world. The concept of regionalism …

I apply the fixed versus variable cost trade-off associated with a multinational firm’s choice between investing abroad … reducing obstacles to investment unambiguously favours setting up plants. When trade barriers decrease, typically, there will … the model are indicative of some of the developments in trade and direct investment among EU countries during the Single …

This paper constructs country-level aggregates of trade facilitation measures from firm-level responses in the … Enterprise Surveys and compares them with the Doing Business indicators, the Logistics Performance Index and the Enabling Trade … relationship between trade facilitation and exports, these findings raise the issue of which form of variation is more informative …