With the ongoing trade normalisation process between India and Pakistan, opportunities to integrate have opened up … segment to focus on in improving trade relations between the two countries. Here, an empirical and theoretical analysis of … India-Pakistan trade using some statistical indicators reveals low levels of current trade but huge trade potential. Since …

We carry out an indirect inference test of two versions of a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of world trade …. One of these, the ‘classical’ model,is well-known as the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of world trade, in which … countries trade homogeneous products in world markets and produce according to their comparative advantage as determined by …

Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However …, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side …-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As such, they are best to be accompanied by trade facilitation …

This study estimates the effect of trade facilitation measures implementation on trade costs in Asia and the Pacific … using data from the United Nations Global Survey on Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade Implementation. Impact of … different sets of measures are considered, from a basic set of measures to ensure compliance with the World Trade Organization …

This paper provides new evidence of the effects of road construction on both domestic and international trade flows in … those supported by multilateral development banks. We find that road construction helped to reduce trade costs significantly … internal trade costs decreases by 20%, and the ad valorem rate of international trade costs decreases, on average, by 15 …

Transaction costs are a major reason why international trade flows are much smaller than traditional trade theory would … suggest. Trust between trading partners lowers transaction costs and may therefore enhance trade. The empirical analysis of … this paper shows that more trust leads to more trade so that part of the mystery of missing trade can be attributed to the …

This paper examines the impact on TFP of North-South trade-related technology diffusion in Latin America and the … Caribbean (LAC). North-South R&D flows are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns …) that taking into account the interaction effects between trade, education and governance by reforming the policies …

the mid-1990s, ACI growth has improved the non-oil terms of trade of the developed countries. There have also been strong …, worsening their terms of trade and constraining their pricing ability. ACI growth has been especially beneficial for oil and … benefits from intra-industry trade; the challenges will come from increased head-to-head competition in manufactured goods and …

trade with the PRC can become an engine of growth for developing Asia. To do so, we examine the structure of PRC's trade … consumer and less of an assembler. This provides ground for optimism about the prospects of trade with the PRC as a source of …