This paper examines the impact of trade and investment liberalization on the wage skill premium between skilled and … important role of trade liberalization as an impetus for narrowing the skill premium. There is also evidence that foreign …

-substitution trade policies that for many years had damaged their economic efficiency and hobbled their economic growth. Albeit with back …-tracking episodes, Sri Lanka's liberalising trade policy reforms-especially reductions in the average level of import tariffs- were … trade policies of the past were explicitly and systematically reversed. By 2009, mainly through the proliferation of a …

This paper provides trade flow projections for major Asian developing economies (ADEs) for the next two decades against … the backdrop of an in-depth analysis of policy shifts and trade patterns over the past 4 decades. Merchandise trade of … the standard gravity modeling framework, total real nonoil trade of ADEs would increase at an average annual rate of 8 …

This paper examines the impact of the Australia-Thailand free trade agreement (TAFTA) on bilateral trade between the …. It is found that trade has expanded faster following TAFTA came into effect, but the impact has heavily concentrated in a … announced preference rates in trade flow modeling is likely to exaggerate trade flow effects of FTAs. …

. This paper utilizes a multi-sectoral, multihousehold general equilibrium model of the Indonesian economy to study the trade …

Advancements in information and communications technologies (ICTs) have increased the possibilities for trade in modern … services and many Asian emerging and developed economies are participating increasingly in these new trade activities. This …

This paper examines the emerging trends and patterns of merchandise trade in Southeast Asia and their implications for … regional cross-border production networks depends inexorably on trade in final goods with North America and the European Union …