multilateralize it. The paper first reviews free trade agreement (FTA) developments, and discusses the characteristics and motives of … FTAs in East Asia. It then analyzes the contents of major plurilateral FTAs in East Asia, that is ASEAN's five FTAs each …

multilateralize it. The paper first reviews free trade agreement (FTA) developments, and discusses the characteristics and motives of … FTAs in East Asia. It then analyzes the contents of major plurilateral FTAs in East Asia, that is ASEAN's five FTAs each …

. This paper looks at historical ties between India and Africa. It identifies trade and investment patterns in recent decades …

investment. The potential gains from closer connectivity between South Asia and Southeast Asia are no doubt large. India … Asia will bring significant opportunities for industrial development in India and trade potential with South and East Asian … communication technology - contributes to integration by reducing transaction costs and facilitating intraregional trade and …

rate, and concluded more comprehensive free trade agreements (FTAs) with Asia's developing economies. India has attempted … switch to marketoriented commercial policies in the late 1970s drove trade-led growth in the giants, the PRC's reforms were … swifter and more coordinated. It has introduced an open door policy towards foreign direct investment (FDI), actively …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son …) have increased in response to trade liberalization. Thus, altered expectations about future returns from daughters relative …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son …) have increased in response to trade liberalization. Thus, altered expectations about future returns from daughters relative …

As part of the Doha Development Agenda many members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and in particular its … Director-General have actively promoted the so-called Aid-for-Trade initiative. Rather than offer a comprehensive account of …

The Information Technology Agreement (ITA), a pluri-lateral trade agreement, seeks to accelerate and deepen the … reduction of trade barriers for the critically important information and communication technology (ICT) industry. ITA thus … provides an interesting case study of how tariff reduction within an industry-specific trade agreement might affect gains from …

. It stresses the importance of the successful conclusion of the Doha Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations and the role … engage the developed countries in the process of mutually beneficial across the board liberalization of trade in goods and …