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Foreign investment liberalization and incentives in selected Asia-Pacific Developing Countries:Implications for the health service sector in Nepal
Maskay, Nephil Matangi; Panta, Rajan Krishna; Sharma, … - Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade … - 2006
The prime objective and main research questions of the study are: 1) What are the practices of service sector investment liberalization and incentives from selected developing countries, and 2) How those experiences can be applied to the investment liberalization and provision of incentives in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005464879
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Determinants of AFTA Members’ Trade Flows and Potential for Trade Diversion
Hapsari, Indira M.; Mangunsong, Carlos - Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade … - 2006
The objective of this paper, therefore, is to investigate the determinants of trade flows of AFTA members, including … the impact of creation of AFTA on its intra-regional and extra-regional trade flow by comparing trade patterns of AFTA … countries with AFTA members and non-members. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005464888
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A Comparative Analysis of Trade Facilitation in Selected Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreement
Wille, P.; Redden, J. - 2006
This study compared the treatment of trade facilitation in four selected regional trade agreements, AFTA, APEC, SAFRA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011833939
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The Impact of Intra Regional Trade Agreement on FDI Inflows in Southeast Asia: Case of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand
Verico, Kiki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
agreement is ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA). The observed countries are Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. These three countries …. These indicators are useful to assess how effective AFTA in accommodating her member’s trade advantage products into her … priority products list. Furthermore this study attempts to assess the impact of AFTA on FDI inflows as a proxy of its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260272
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ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF ASEAN FREE TRADE AREA; BY A COUNTRY PANEL DATA
Kien, Nguyen Trung; Hashimoto, Yoshizo - Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University - 2005
Free Trade Area (AFTA). Based on the two-way error component form of the gravity model, we employ the HT technique to … result is that AFTA has only produced the trade creation among its members. Finally, this study suggests the importance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005773241
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A Comparative Analysis of Trade Facilitation in Selected Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreement
Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade …; … - 2006
This study compared the treatment of trade facilitation in four selected regional trade agreements, AFTA, APEC, SAFRA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005464894
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ASEAN and Trade Integration
Mikic, Mia - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific … - 2009
This paper reviews the progress in trade-related areas of ASEAN Economic Community to be established by 2015. It provivdes empirical evidence and qualitative analysis on how the process of trade integration worked and what could have been done for it to have worked better. Where appropriate it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852547
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Multilateralising Regionalism: Disciplines on Export Restrictions in Regional Trade Agreements
Korinek, Jane; Bartos, Jessica - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2012
The proliferation of preferential trade agreements has posed challenges for the multilateral trading system. But regional trade agreements (RTAs) also allow countries to develop and strengthen trade disciplines beyond what is possible at the multilateral level. In some instances, RTAs explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277109
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Using Trade Agreements to Trade Easier and Cheaper, with More Benefits for All
ESCAP, United Nations - In: Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report 2011: …
Only 20 RTAs involving at least one member from the Asia-Pacific region were in force in 1995. By May 2011, this number had grown to 122. Furthermore, the contribution of Asia and the Pacific to the global trend towards regionalism has also become dominant; since 2005, the region has contributed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009224846
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Trade Facilitation in Regional Trade Agreements: Recent Trends in Asia and the Pacific
Duval, Yann - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific … - 2011
The coverage of trade facilitation is found to have become very extensive, with the details of provisions in some agreements matching that in the draft WTO agreement on trade facilitation. Trade facilitation provisions and principles are increasingly seen to apply not only to Customs procedures...
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