to diversify export portfolios through exporting to Asia. Each African nation has a distinct main trade partner in Asia …, in contrast to the common view that China has become the dominant trade partner of most African nations. Using a panel … with exports to the rest of the world, suggesting that in contrast to trade diversion, trade with Asia complements exports …

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

Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by … the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of … unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature touches on important linkages between trade and FDI in services and the …

addition to the earlier work done on these topics in the WTO Working Group on the Interaction between Trade and Competition …

economic geography model. We first construct a measure of each SSA country's market access based on bilateral trade flows and …

playing field’ of the global economy. – globalization ; trade ; growth ; income distribution ; development …Openness is not necessarily good for the poor. Reducing trade protection has not brought growth to today’s poorest … substantial engagement in trade and a marked decline in their tariff rates in the 1990s, have failed to grow. Second, within high …