Comparative studies of India and China’s political economy typically focus on either domestic economic indicators such as GDP growth and employment rates, or external indicators of globalization such as trade and investment flows. In contrast, the proposed paper addresses an informal dimension...

Recently, the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau of Arab States (UNDP RBAS) and the World Bank produced thoroughly researched and clearly written reports addressing development and regional integration in the Arab/Middle East North Africa (MENA) region. Both reports were...

This study observed rapidly rising shares of manufactured and electronic goods in Korea's total exports and a trend decline in Korea's terms of trade over the period of this study (1967-2001), in accordance with the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis. Contrary to the expectation of Prebisch, the...

Japan’s remarkable postwar growth spurt in the 1960s would not have been possible without Japan’s alliance with the United States. Policy makers, political scientists, economists, historians, and journalists on both sides of the Pacific have made this claim, but no study has yet tested it...

The Information Technology Agreement (ITA), a pluri-lateral trade agreement, seeks to accelerate and deepen the reduction of trade barriers for the critically important information and communication technology (ICT) industry. ITA thus provides an interesting case study of how tariff reduction...

In this paper we discuss the extent to which countries in the former Silk Road regions are either reaching or failing to reach their trading potential with China. We estimate a gravity model of trade using a Poisson pseudo‐maximum likelihood estimator, and estimate trade potential using...

Non-profit organizations have been working for the benefit of humanity for hundreds of years. One of the major issues that have been highlighted recently is the long-term sustainability of these interventions. In previous studies most scholars have focused on the individual actions of a single...

Hong Kong and Macau were re-united with China in the late 1990s as two special administrative regions (SARs). Over the last half century, they were China's good examples of economic development, windows of openness and investors. Due to historical reasons, China lagged far behind Hong Kong and...

This article analyzes recent efforts by India's Dalits (Untouchables) to transform centuries-old caste-based discrimination into an international human rights issue. Comparing early failures and later successes in international activism, the article demonstrates that the Dalits have achieved...

The Australia-India Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement presents a significant and unique opportunity for India and Australia to strengthen their digital trade relationship. Although certain areas — including cross-border data flows/data localization, customs duties on electronic...