. Three main issues are considered: possible common trade interests of the ACP Group, possible configurations of ACP groupings …

Trade can be a powerful engine for economic growth, poverty reduction, and development. However, harnessing the power … of trade is often difficult for developing countries, particularly the least developed countries, because of supply …-side domestic constraints (lack of trade-related infrastructure and capacity). The Aid for Trade Initiative was launched to address …

their exports as well as other economic and trade policy characteristics. In the process, it defines clusters of countries … according to the multi-dimensional criteria defined by value-added, economic and trade policy indicators. Results show that … a crucial determinant of the Trade in Value-Added profile, more than the sheer size of the economy. Pro-active value …

most determinant variables for defining Trade in Value Added (TiVA) clusters. The level of economic development remains a …

multilateralize it. The paper first reviews free trade agreement (FTA) developments, and discusses the characteristics and motives of … FTAs in East Asia. It then analyzes the contents of major plurilateral FTAs in East Asia, that is ASEAN’s five FTAs each …

economy. It involves liberalization and facilitation of trade in goods, services, and investment, as well as protection and … small extent of intra-ASEAN trade, and the wide differences in economic size, development level, and industrial competence … strategies and external pressures (such as the formation of the European Union Single Market and the North American Free Trade …

multilateralize it. The paper first reviews free trade agreement (FTA) developments, and discusses the characteristics and motives of … FTAs in East Asia. It then analyzes the contents of major plurilateral FTAs in East Asia, that is ASEAN’s five FTAs each …

economy. It involves liberalization and facilitation of trade in goods, services, and investment, as well as protection and … small extent of intra-ASEAN trade, and the wide differences in economic size, development level, and industrial competence … strategies and external pressures (such as the formation of the European Union Single Market and the North American Free Trade …

argued in this paper, however, it is not all that easy to lay our hands on ‘robust’ facts. Quantitative analyses of trade …, for instance, Africa’s poor stand to gain from further trade opening under the Doha Round into one in which they would … stand to lose. Most studies agree though that trade opening probably adds to aggregate welfare, but gains are small and …

integration by removing non-tariff barriers to trade within ASEAN. …