This chapter studies interlinkages and interaction between the reciprocal trade liberalization through the WTO and … preferential trade agreements from the perspective of the LDCs. An econometric exercise using an extended version of ARTNeT gravity …’ trade. …

significant gains for liberalization of trade through the World Trade Organization. It is not clear that the reported gains are at … multilateral trade liberalization are very small even in a formal New Keynesian model incorporating economies with significant …

liberalization commitments and was subject to review by the WTO’s Trade Policy Review Committee. In her view, the same mechanism …

Following the onset of the financial crisis in September 2008 and the subsequent “Great Trade Collapse” (Baldwin 2009 …), many countries actively used trade policy instruments as part of their response to the global recession. Governments … pursued a mix of trade liberalization, trade promotion, and trade restrictions. The choice of trade policy has varied, with …

Asia and the Pacific. The findings reveal that despite declared pledges of the developed countries towards free trade, and …

This chapter reiterates some truisms about the linkages between trade, trade liberalization and development. It also … provides a statistical overview of the Asia-Pacific LDCs’ performance in trade and investment since 2000. …