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Trade facilitation is important based on the rationale that all of the processes of international transaction need to go through regulated procedures. Efficient management and implementation of these procedures are thus essential and can serve as one of the channels to enhance a country's...
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In the context of a current global economic crisis and an unfinished World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round … poverty reduction. In the process, China has become one of the world's largest traders.China attempts to establish itself as a … gravity center in Asia by concluding many bilateral free-trade agreements in the region. In this sense, the article argues …
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This chapter suggests a rationale for a simple, scalable, and fast computational approach through the ‘Data With Direction Specification’ (DWDS) to supplement the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The specification provides a way for digitally executable...
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"; preferential notification within the WTO in accordance with the norms of Art. XXIY of the GATT and Art. Y of the GATS, rather than …
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Commitments in regional trade agreements (RTAs) that fall short of the same countries' obligations under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) are a relatively frequent phenomenon. However, they have gone widely unnoticed in the literature to date and drawn very little attention in...
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East Asia is a region of great global significance, currently accounting for around 30% of the global economy by most … Asia's economic regionalisation has become more functionally integrative, this broadly relating to the spread of … within those systems. For example, as later explored, much of East Asia's regionalised trade concerns cross-border movement …
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This paper suggests some of the ways whereby regional financial and monetary cooperation can be considered as a way West African countries can integrate into the global economy rather than just focusing on individual countries. Prior to the enormous economic deficits that have engulfed most...
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This research paper attempts to estimate the bilateral trade of Pakistan with SAARC countries using a gravity model of trade. This panel study covers the period from 2003 to 2016. The empirical results are obtained through pooled OLS, fixed-effects, and random-effects estimators. On the basis of...
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Strengthening ties with Africa has become a top priority for the current geopolitical European Commission. The focus on Africa is not new: Since 2004, the European Neighbourhood Policy has gradually developed a framework for political dialogue and reforms in Northern African countries, which...
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