[enter Abstract Body]International trade, an important economic activity, has affected the human environment in varying degrees since its beginning. This research will carry out calculations and analyses on Pakistan-ASEAN bilateral and technological trade flows at a disaggregated level over...

The decades-long history of friendly relationships in both countries bore the fruits in the form of the Pakistan–China free-trade agreement (PCFTA) in 2006. This paper aims to estimate Pakistan’s bilateral trade potential with China by employing the gravity model of trade in a panel data set...

This paper provides a new, unified, and flexible framework to measure and characterize a convergence process. Specifically, we formally define a general notion of asymptotic price convergence, which encompasses convergence as steady-state and catching-up, and propose a model to represent a...

The study tries to analyse the critically the advantage of SAFTA among SAARC nations. It also compares India's growth in trade with SAARC and ASEAN countries. The study discusses various bilateral treaties and compares the reduction in tariffs prior to and after SAFTA. The statistical tools such...

French Abstract: Au cours de l'histoire, rien n'a tué plus d'êtres humains que les maladies infectieuses et la fièvre hémorragique. Bien que les taux de mortalité dus aux pandémies aient chuté de près de 1 % par an dans le monde, environ 0,8 % par an, tout au long du XXe siècle, le...

Throughout history, nothing has killed more human beings than infectious diseases. Although, death rates from pandemics dropped globally by about 0.8 % per year, all the way through the 20th century, the number of new infectious diseases like Sars, HIV and Covid-19 increased by nearly fourfold...

The Aymara population constitutes the main social and cultural identity of the Arica and Parinacota Region in Chile and for more than five decades has continued to face a series of local difficulties due to globalization, technological change, and a neoliberal market economy with little...

This paper was presented at the 2019 Oxford Conference: Transplanting the EU Competition Framework – Trends and Challenges: Eastern Europe, https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/events/transplanting-eu-competition-framework-trends-and-challenges-eastern-europeThis paper assesses the procedural rules of...

Trade liberalisation is often characterised as either preferential or non-discriminatory but not all preferential trade agreements are the same. We focus on non-tariff measures that can constitute barriers to trade and that differ between free-trade agreements (FTAs) and customs unions (CUs). In...

More than 20 years after the Asian financial crisis, the region’s continued high reliance on United States (US) dollar-denominated funding has significant implications for the transmission of global financial conditions to domestic financial and macroeconomic circumstances. Given limited...