With the ongoing trade normalisation process between India and Pakistan, opportunities to integrate have opened up … segment to focus on in improving trade relations between the two countries. Here, an empirical and theoretical analysis of … India-Pakistan trade using some statistical indicators reveals low levels of current trade but huge trade potential. Since …

Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However …, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side …-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As such, they are best to be accompanied by trade facilitation …

The Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations has been ongoing for 10 years, and given political … arguably requires greater recognition of the value of trade policy disciplines that will be part of any agreement. The WTO is … rules of the game for other trade-related policies. Given the slow progress of the Round, greater emphasis could be put on …

Following the onset of the financial crisis in September 2008 and the subsequent “Great Trade Collapse” (Baldwin 2009 …), many countries actively used trade policy instruments as part of their response to the global recession. Governments … pursued a mix of trade liberalization, trade promotion, and trade restrictions. The choice of trade policy has varied, with …

In March 2013, the EU and Japan launched negotiations for a comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA). The EU also …. Striking is, however, the outstanding pace of the new trade deals among traditional trading powers. Our paper addresses the … trade relations. It concludes that the recent push for FTAs by the big trading powers is a rapid means of mutual market …

developing countries and especially the least developed among them secure a share in the growth in international trade … diversify production, linking to the Global Value Chains and developing adequate infra-structures facilitating digital trade as … overcoming some of these issues through various programs, all geared towards trade capacity building. It is argued that the work …

of GDP per capita. Because FDI and trade are two important components of economic growth in Bangladesh, it is important …The study reveals that there is a relationship between foreign direct investments, trade, and growth rate of per capita … GDP for Bangladesh with the help of annual time series data for 1973 to 2014. The Vector Error Correction Model (VECM …

of trade and financial openness. Using a large crosssection of 91 countries covering the period 1985-2004, we establish … two main empirical regularities. Both higher trade and financial openness i) reduce central bank?s inflation bias …