good practice and it is necessary to speed up implementation if revenue, trade facilitation, and trade chain security …

In this paper we estimate gravity models to see whether trade volumes of countries in the MENA region are significantly … show that the variables used in standard gravity models cannot explain a significant part of MENA's trade performance … inefficiencies in customs clearance processes, are important in explaining the MENA region's underperformance in trade. …

This paper analyzes trade in the Caribbean community (CARICOM) using a gravity model framework. The paper seeks to shed … light on the dynamics of trade among CARICOM member countries, as well with the rest of world over 1980–99. Overall, the … results show that intra-CARICOM trade has increased, suggesting that further regional integration is desirable. At the same …

Using detailed global trade and novel Multi-Region Input-Output (MRIO) data, this paper examines the East African … Community’s (EAC) global and regional integration through trade, global, and regional value chains (GVCs and RVCs). With … global and regional trade and production networks at the aggregate, bilateral, sectoral, and bilateral-sectoral levels. The …

Abstract Using a new set of measures of concentration of trade, I suggest that the opening up of trade to date has been … greatly exaggerated. At least judging on the basis of trade concentration, agriculture and service sectors should barely be … the global openness league table. Since there is a strong correlation between concentration of trade and poor economic …

and intranational data to evaluate the linkages between trade in goods, trade in financial assets, specialization and … important, as both trade and financial openness have a direct and an indirect effect on cycle synchronization. (ii) A variety of … reflection of intra-industry trade, and of openness to goods and assets trade. (iv) The estimated role of trade is in line with …

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 …

sub-Saharan Africa. In this context the fast growing south-south cooperation's, specific transregional free trade …