their small size and remoteness from major world markets. In this paper we study the importance of transport connectivity … for Pacific economies when participating in the world economy. The paper first describes the evolution of trade flows of … datasets. One contains all shipping connections within the Pacific and with the rest of the world; the second all flight …

A significant part of world trade volume is transported by container ship today. Growing world trade will enforce … has been quite persistent in world trade. For container transport, the impact might be smaller, since it takes place …

The proliferation of RTAs is a central feature of the world trade policy environment in the last 20 years. This paper … provides an empirical study of the extent to which the formation of RTAs has changed the distribution of world goods trade … between pairs of countries in each year. On average for the world economy this measure does not increase over the sample …

COVID-19 is expected to have contributed towards changing the geographical structure of world trade, including trade …