This paper examines the changing relationship between trade policy, production networks, and economic growth in Asia …. It traces East Asia’s rise to the coveted "Factory Asia" league with rapid growth over several decades through trade … Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and a multilateral approach under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT …

Do trade reforms that significantly reduce import barriers lead to faster economic growth? In the two decades since the … control methods on specific reform episodes, and empirical country studies looking at the channels through which lower trade … barriers may increase productivity. A consistent finding is that trade reforms that significantly reduce import barriers have a …

This paper examines the changing relationship between trade policy, production networks, and economic growth in Asia …. It traces East Asia's rise to the coveted “Factory Asia” league with rapid growth over several decades through trade … Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and a multilateral approach under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT …

The paper reviews the evidence of the impact of trade liberalisation on the economic performance of poor developing … countries with respect to trade and the balance of payments, economic growth, poverty reduction, the distribution of income … within countries, and the distribution of income between countries, and finds that trade liberalisation has not delivered the …

The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals … manufacturing trade, have gone further and that this is likely one of the key determinants of better economic performance of China … trade and FDI in manufactured goods has spurred the emergence of a largely private sector. On the other hand the high level …

This paper examines the process of trade liberalisation in Mexico, particularly since the mid-1980s and the signing of … difficulties. Mexican exchange rate policy has not helped the situation. -- Trade liberalisation ; Economic growth ; Balance of …

Some studies are skeptical whether further investment is productive and trade liberalization is promising for SSA … dynamic links between investment, trade and income growth in SSA economies targeting at addressing the question: how the … impact flows from investment-GDP-trade openness-investment besides the twin feedbacks between GDP growth and growths of …

increased four times, world bilateral trade flows have grown more than six-fold, and the stock of foreign direct investment (FDI …) has grown by roughly 20 times since 1980. The sources of global trade and investment growth are well known - general …

Promotion of foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade liberalization on both global and regional levels has been … considered to be beneficial for the economic development of developing countries. Current WTO rules support regional trade … liberalization and prohibit certain trade-related investment measures by national governments, even though these are important policy …