The paper analyses sectoral patterns of intra-Asian trade for selected Asian countries as well as for sub … extra-Asian trade, almost all sample countries concentrate their intra-Asian exports more on non-manufactures. Within … manufactures, resource-intensive goods still play a larger role in intra-Asian trade than in trade outside Asia. This reflects both …

cooperation should aim to reduce both intra- and inter- regional trade facilitation gaps as well as to expand the connectivity …. South Asia has to enact its own connectivity and trade facilitation arrangement to take forward the agenda of South Asian … trade facilitation and connectivity in the region. South Asia connectivity needs a new vision to compete globally. This …

cooperation should aim to reduce both intra- and inter- regional trade facilitation gaps as well as to expand the connectivity …. South Asia has to enact its own connectivity and trade facilitation arrangement to take forward the agenda of South Asian … trade facilitation and connectivity in the region. South Asia connectivity needs a new vision to compete globally. This …

through regional collaboration in the form of bilateral and regional trade agreements. Regional cooperation and integration … can facilitate the way for expanding markets and creating trade opportunities. However, market-led integration in South … highly integrated trade, investment, and production space. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC …

factual account of ROO as evolved in South Asia, empirically estimates of the effects of ROO on trade in an FTA and finally … an RTA. Disagreements over rules of origin have often deferred the implementation of several trade agreements. One of the … reasons for this is because ROO are viewed as those obstructing trade. Most of the literature on the subject too argues that …

This paper examines the determinants and trade effects of the South Asian Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA …) using empirical methods. An empirical specification of the gravity model is developed to analyze the determinants of trade … flows for the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) countries. The need for maintaining the primacy of economic integration in …

In a large number of circumstances, trade policy modelers turn to partial equilibrium modeling in an imperfect … substitutes framework. This paper develops a formal representation of this imperfect substitutes model and applies it to trade … the history of Pakistan-India trade and the political economy of the negative list …

communication technology - contributes to integration by reducing transaction costs and facilitating intraregional trade and … Asia will bring significant opportunities for industrial development in India and trade potential with South and East Asian …

The present study investigates the effect of regional and bilateral trade agreements supported by institutional … framework on bilateral trade between India and selected South and Central Asian countries. The augmented gravity model that … corrects for zero trade, endogeneity and heterogeneity is used. The model is developed by applying OLS and PPML (Poisson pseudo …