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 …

The growth of digital trade is dependant upon greater interconnectivity across borders. Several countries strive to … achieve such interconnectivity and integration in digital trade through international trade agreements. Digital trade … digital trade integration: reducing digital trade barriers; digital trade facilitation; digital trade regulatory frameworks …

The growth of digital trade is dependant upon greater interconnectivity across borders. Several countries strive to … achieve such interconnectivity and integration in digital trade through international trade agreements. Digital trade … digital trade integration: reducing digital trade barriers; digital trade facilitation; digital trade regulatory frameworks …

Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on … international trade flows, and the well-known - and traditionally presumed exogenous - "trade-cost elasticity" plays a central role … in computing general equilibrium trade-flow and welfare effects of trade-cost changes. This paper addresses theoretically …

This paper documents the novel fact that Regional Trade Agreements (RTA) decrease bilateral trade imbalances as … measured by conventional measure of the net export share in gross trade. While on average an RTA decreases bilateral trade … imbalance by 7%, greater trade integration through a deeper RTA is associated with a reduction of up to 50% among the sample of …

This paper shows that a regional bias resulting from trade integration alters the transmission of a countryś monetary … simple model which illustrates how a concentration of trade flows among regional trading partners affects the sensitivity of … the trade balance to the terms-of-trade. In particular, the trade balance becomes less sensitive to the terms-of-trade vis …

trade with greater variety of goods, Central Asian economies need to decrease transportation costs and trade barriers …

barriers to trade, known as SPS and TBTs, respectively) with a dual purpose of non-trade policy objectives and (hidden … relative to other traditional measures to regulate trade. This begs the question if there has been an intentional shift towards …