There is strong empirical evidence showing that political relations have an impact on aggregate bilateral trade flows … and test the mechanism in reduced-form. We implement a difference-in-differences approach with monthly trade flows and a … trade flows, and that the response is larger for products in markets with low price gaps to alternative sourcing partners …

clothing sector accounts for the largest share in trade between India and Pakistan chiefly because of the similarities in … culture and the importance of the sector in their economies. However, the level of bilateral trade in textile and clothing at … USD 722 million (2013) is dismal as compared to the trade potential of USD 2.10 billion. To make a case for increasing …

The auto sector in Pakistan has been a persistent opponent of trade liberalisation in the country. This has entailed …

century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …

approach to investigate whether trade openness has spurred economic growth in Uganda. The extant literature shows that trade …-run relationship reveal the existence of a positive and statistically significant relationship between trade openness and economic … growth. Except for the use of exports to measure trade openness, using openness index and imports to proxy for trade openness …

trade liberalisation. This paper uses the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and National Treasury (NT) firm-level panel … to assess the response of South African firms to trade policy changes and demand shocks in destination markets between … firm level. Also, trade liberalisation policies in the destination country positively affect the number of exported goods …

Bilateral and regional free trade agreements increasingly substitute for the World Trade Organization in trade … negotiations. Accordingly, civil society organisations opposed to trade liberalisation target this new generation of trade … their voice against the Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership …

dynamics of the data-driven economy. These have broad implications for trade policy and for the strategic approach for small …

The vast majority of the books and articles that have been written over the past few centuries about trade policy in …, contract and association rights. The author concludes that the only trade policy that does not violate human rights is a policy … of total, immediate and unilateral free trade.An extensive bibliography with links to more than 100 trade articles is …

and philosophical perspective. The author concludes that arguments against free trade are based on faulty premises …