merchandise trade. …

century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …

Analysis of infrastructure's role in facilitating international trade and consequently regional economic integration is … of the implementation of trade-related infrastructure facilities and their impacts on poverty, trade, investment and …Infrastructure and trade in Asia : an overview / Douglas H. Brooks and Jayant Menon -- A framework for considering …

International trade costs are of vital importance because they determine trade patterns and therefore economic … performance. This paper develops a new micro-founded measure of international trade costs. It is based on a multi-country general … equilibrium model of trade that incorporates bilateral 'iceberg' trade costs. The model results in a gravity equation from which …