-crisis level. Merchandise trade in the region grew by more than 30% in 2010, compared with 21% growth in world merchandise trade. …Trade in the Asian and Pacific region has recovered strongly since the first quarter of 2010. While world trade is … still struggling towards a full recovery, monthly trade values for Asia and the Pacific have already returned to the pre …

We analyse causality relationships between industry and foreign trade in three major areas of the world economy: India … to favour industrial and non-industrial development, from a mixed approach to economic growth which has into account … demand and supply sides. We use several approaches to causality, including Granger´s bivariate and trivariate tests and …

capabilities available to domestic firms operating in ordinary trade is an important driver of economic growth. However, no direct …Our work contributes to the literature relating output structure and economic development by showing that growth gains … gains emanate from the complexity of goods produced by either processing-trade activities or foreign firms. This suggests …

with the hypothesis that the link between trade openness and long-run growth operates mainly through imports. This finding …In this paper, we analyze the role played by capital goods imports in the long-run growth of developing countries. We … determinants of the long-run growth rate of per capita GDP over the analyzed period. Furthermore, our results are also consistent …

The optimism surrounding aid for trade (AfT) led scholars and practitioners to probe its link with trade performance of … group. The results for the components of AfT from OECD countries are mixed, with AfT for "trade education and training" the … to Africa have played little role in Africa's trade with China, with infrastructure and economic size of African …

Open regionalism and trade cooperation between the world's two largest developing countries, the People's Republic of … China (PRC) and India, can foster outward-oriented development and intra-regional trade based on comparative advantage and … available factor endowments. In view of the recent wave of worldwide subregional and bilateral trade cooperation, and the recent …

(China) and India - in trade, investments and infrastructure development can foster outward-oriented development and economic …

The optimism surrounding aid for trade (AfT) led scholars and practitioners to probe its link with trade performance of … group. The results for the components of AfT from OECD countries are mixed, with AfT for "trade education and training" the … to Africa have played little role in Africa's trade with China, with infrastructure and economic size of African …

Until recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been an effective framework for cooperation because it has … stake in maintaining trade openness, an initiative that builds on but redefines the Doha Agenda would anchor China more …

This paper shows empirically that China s trade balance is sensitive to fluctuations in the renminbi real effective … exchange rate. However, the current size of the trade surplus is such that exchange rate policy, alone, will probably not be … able to address the imbalance. The reduction in the trade surplus is limited mainly because Chinese imports do not react as …