With an increasing share of global commerce taking place in digital form or facilitated by digital platforms, it is becoming increasingly important to update the rules-based framework to accommodate and enable the development of the intangibles-based data-driven economy while reconciling the...

The Marrakesh Agreement establishing the WTO recognizes the need for positive efforts designed to ensure that developing countries and especially the least developed among them secure a share in the growth in international trade commensurate with the needs of their economic development.This...

At a time when regional production networks have been resurgent, especially in Asia, why has India's integration in regional markets had not been deeper? Using highly disaggregated trade data and an analysis of industry perspectives based on semi-structured interviews with a sample of firms and...

China's infrastructure-based Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is challenging the US-led Western International Economic Governance Order (hereafter the Western order) that has been in place since the end of World War II, reflecting a global shift in power and influence from the United States to...

‘Eurasia' seems to be a relatively clear concept in terms of physical geography, but much less so for social sciences. While the word ‘Eurasia' is constantly used in various contexts (more today than twenty years ago), the specific notion of what it actually means is unclear. According to...

Political, social, technological, cultural conditions and factors originating from various spheres of human activity impact international economic relations (IER), and this gives each stage of their development a pronounced originality. Digitalization as one of the most important tracks of the...

Do comprehensive trade agreements increase the participation of States in global value chains (GVCs) and contribute to their development? Although there is extensive evidence in the trade literature that deep preferential trade agreements (PTAs) can increase States’ bilateral export of final...

Insbesondere seit der Wahl Donald Trumps zum Präsidenten der USA stellen sich viele politische Beobachter die Frage, wie zuverlässig die USA für ihre Partner noch sind. Frühere gemeinsame Ziele, wie Freihandel, Klimaschutz und verlässliche transatlantische Beziehungen, sind nicht mehr...

As India seeks to strengthen trade, investment and other forms of economic cooperation with ASEAN, Myanmar is an essential strategic partner, since it is the only ASEAN nation with which India shares both land and maritime borders. As a "gateway" to South East Asia, Myanmar is also vital in...

In this paper, I estimate the impact of heterogeneity in non-tariff-measures (NTMs) policies on countries' global value chains (GVCs)-related trade and its backward and forward components. I firstly build a regulatory distance (RD) index, which measures the degree of dissimilarity in NTMs...