The Belt and Road initiative, recently embarked on by China, aims to improve cross-border infrastructure in order to … reduce transportation costs across a massive geographical area between China and Europe. The authors estimate how much trade … true for eastern Europe and Central Asia and, to a lesser extent, south-east Asia. In contrast, if China were to seek to …

China's infrastructure-based Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is challenging the US-led Western International Economic … power and influence from the United States to China. In the aftermath of World War II, the US continued to provide a … mandate to rebuild the infrastructure of the shattered post-war economies, to promote international economic cooperation, and …

The Belt and Road Initiative, recently embarked on by China, aims to improve cross-border infrastructure in order to … reduce transportation costs across a massive geographical area between China and Europe. We estimate how much trade might be … for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and, to a lesser extent, South-East Asia. In contrast, if China were to seek to …

The Belt Road Initiative (BRI) suggested by China’s President Xi Jinping provides an ambitious vision encouraging a new … enormous differences among the economies involved, as well as the 6 BRI corridors studied – namely, Bangladesh-China …-India-Myanmar (BCIM), China-Mongolia-Russia (CMR), China-Central Asia-West Asia (CAWA), China-Indochina Peninsula (ICP), China …

Africa’s largest trade partner, China, criticised for exchanging resources for manufactures, has promised to increase … imports and optimise the structure of trade with Africa. Using a gravity model of China’s imports for the years 1995-2009, we …-rich; landlocked and resource-poor; coastal and resource-poor – sets out China’s imports trends in an abstract framework of African …

discuss stylized facts about East Asia's trade structure. The People's Republic of China (PRC) plays a critical role as an …

global IT industry have pushed re-location of certain industry functions. Third, Greater China (defined here as Taiwan and … the People's Republic of China including Hong Kong and Macao) has been the greatest beneficiary of this reorganization …-cum-relocation. The innovative electronics firms that have arisen in Greater China have been vertically specialized and constitute a large …