, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side … confirms that trade and investment liberalization are essential drivers of economic development. The economic growth and trade … benefits from trade facilitation generally dwarf those from tariff liberalization and, to a lesser extent, those achieved …

-operation, policy dialogue, initiatives and sharing of best practices at the APAC level to facilitate more cross-border trade. Given … technologies), have led to the growth of e-commerce in the region. A policy push towards digitalisation by key countries and the … key component of all new age trade agreements. However, there is neither a framework nor strategy for regulatory co …

This paper explores the interactions between external trade and regional disparities in the Italian economy since … market access therefore became a key determinant of industrial location, inducing fast growing new sectors (especially … engineering) to locate in regions with a large domestic market, i.e. in the North. From 1945 onwards trade growth and European …

(SASEC) region of South Asia. It lays out an applied framework for prioritizing trade-related interventions and investments … resulting spatial transformations to trade affecting productivity, and the spatial distribution of productivity. Spatial … transformation and structural changes suggest another channel for welfare gains from trade. In this way the paper makes a novel …

measures, e.g. production, trade, investment and finance. It has also become increasingly integrated in various ways …. Integration at the micro-level has steadily progressed since the 1960s, as indicated by rising intraregional trade. Moreover, East … transnational business and other technical systems where production, trade, and investment have become a function of each other …

increasingly being met by imports with long term effect on its trade balance. To enhance energy security, which is essential for … through regional energy trade and integration by exploring the case of the Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA). The paper … individual or bilateral attempts and that the Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement is an ideal vehicle for providing energy security …

Cultural proximity increases bilateral trade flows through a trade-cost and a bilateral-affinity (preferences) channel …-invariant, in a gravity model of bilateral trade, the time dimension of the ESC data allows to identify the preferences effect. The … find robust evidence for a sizable preferences effect, the impact of cultural proximity on trade runs largely through the …

since the early 1990s. In areas such as trade, investment, labor markets, technology, and policy coordination, regional …