"During the 1990s, foreign direct investment in producer service sectors in Latin America was massive. Such investment may increase the quality of services, reduce their cost, and offer opportunities for knowledge spillovers to downstream users of the services. This paper examines the effects of...

The main objective of this study is to investigate empirically the effect of free or preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on Pakistan's export performance (value of exports, number of exporters and number of products per exporter) during the period 2003 to 2010. The analysis covers the South...

Trade deficits and surpluses are sometimes attributed to intentionally low or high exchange rate levels. The impact of exchange rate levels on trade has been much debated but the large body of existing empirical literature does not suggest an unequivocally clear picture of the trade impacts of...