<Para ID="Par1">This paper provides an exploratory account of Oman’s trade policy and performance following membership to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2000, revealing significant progress in shaping an outward-oriented competitive economy. Oman’s trade contributes to some 94 % of its gross domestic...</para>

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the effect of business environment indicators (time required to start a business, time required to register a property, time required to enforce a contract, and time to resolve insolvency) on trade in a sample of four Gulf Co‐operation Council (GCC)...

This paper investigates the determinants of trade between Oman and its major Asian trading partners in order to gauge the impact of the process of trade liberalisation. The empirical findings based on the gravity model indicate that Oman's imports from Asia are strongly determined by Asian...