Trade encourages economic expansion and improves welfare based on international division of labor. However, trade also …

This chapter provides a picture of post-crisis trade and investment interventions in the Asia-Pacific region. It … focuses not only on restrictions on merchandise trading, but also on new obstacles to services trade and movements of people …

This chapter attempts to identify regional cooperation measures that support trade and transport facilitation and … thereby enhance export competitiveness. This will be done by examining some experiences in Asia and the Pacific that …

incidence on trade in Asia-tariffs or freight costs? Since international transport costs, to a great extent, depend on ocean … freight rates, the next step is to understand the relative importance of ocean freight rates in trade in Asia. The chapter …This chapter explore why it is so important to study transportation costs in the context of Asia. Which has a higher …

The global economic crisis has attracted renewed attention to the issue of trade finance as exporters in some countries … when demand for their products has fallen dramatically. The higher costs and limited availability of trade finance has …

India as well for various other low-income developing countries in Asia and Africa. Such as analysis provides important … information on, and insights into bilateral trade patterns of developing countries involving the European Union and India. In fact … are already enjoying trade preferences in the European Union. In addition, the analysis will be useful to policymakers in …

technology, trade and consumption. Using structural decomposition analysis, we study the relative importance of these drivers for …