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 …

Trade Association (EFTA) signed with the EU in 1972. Later, Sweden signed to become a member of the European Economic Area …

various cooperative initiatives for trade and finance, including free trade agreements (FTAs), the Chiang Mai Initiative, the … regional economic cooperation. First, trade authorities are advised to consolidate multiple, overlapping FTAs into a single …

- horizontal versus vertica l- within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of … investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture trade integration by estimating the magnitude and evolution of the home … robust relationship of complementarity between trade integration and FDI provides at least one argument in support of …

competitiveness. Furthermore, it is uncertain whether Latin America's trade relations with Europe can be strengthened significantly by … concluding interregional agreements on trade preferences. …

investments, liberalizing capital flows, and ensuring regional financial stability. Progress so far has been limited. Regional …

countries to 31 OECD countries over the period 1995-2015. We specifically emphasise the effect of regional trade agreements such … as the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) along with membership of the Currency Union … that follow from the application of the gravity model. We look at the effects of the North American Free Trade Area on …

. The authors have examined the key indicators of social and economic development of Uzbekistan and the main areas of trade … EAEU may become a major driver of investment and trade cooperation …

In the struggle between the forces of free trade and the restrictive influence of insularism the latter recently seems …

or were re-established by the same actors; agreements with similar content (like free trade areas or customs unions) were …