This paper explores the economic implications of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) - Asia's largest trade agreement - on India and Sri Lanka. The findings from existing model-based studies suggest that India, as an insider economy, will potentially gain from the RCEP while...

Part 1 Introduction and Overview -- 1 Introduction (Ganeshan Wignaraja) -- 2 Toward “Trade Policy Analysis 2.0”: From National Comparative Advantage to Firm-Level Trade Data (Lucian Cernat) -- 3 Production Networks in East Asia: What We Know So Far (Fukunari Kimura and Ayako Obashi) -- Part...

This study, sponsored by the World Bank, is based on a detailed analysis of a sample of manufacturing enterprises of different sizes, ownership forms and specialisations in Ghana. It examines why industry in general has low capabilities and what effects the rapid liberalisation of the Ghanaian...

This book examines the economic, political and institutional dimensions of pan-Asian integration. With little progress made in the Doha Round, there is heightened interest in deeper regional integration in Asia. The book explores regional patterns of trade and investment and the potential for...

This paper analyses the link between commercial policies and exports through a comparative analysis of the Asian giants - the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. While the PRC has surged ahead of India to dominate world manufactured exports, India has acquired competitive capabilities in...