century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …

This paper analyses the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between EU and India focusing on services trade. Based on … agreement and next predict the impact on services trade flows using a general equilibrium structural gravity analysis. I find …'s trade with the rest of the world would not change much, while India's exports to the rest of the world would decline by …

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 …

The potential multilateralisation of government procurement commitments in regional trade agreements (RTAs) presents …

addition, we are able to relate asymmetries in FTA effects to each country's ability to influence the other's terms of trade … past free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as obtain ex ante predictions for the effects of future FTAs. We first identify …. Even with the same agreement, FTA effects are weaker for more distant pairs and for pairs with otherwise high levels of ex …

Growing internationalization of firms in Asia through participation in global value chains (GVCs) and free trade … development are also positively associated with SMEs joining GVCs. Furthermore, increased exposure to international trade …, knowledge of FTA provisions and central location positively affects the use of FTAs by SMEs. More business support for SMEs can …

global income gains of $295 billion (including $78 billion for the United States) and offers a pathway to free trade in the …

Nations (ASEAN) free trade agreements (FTAs). The move towards the ASEAN Economic Community by 2015 and the attempts to …