Regional Trade Integration
Measuring global and regional trade integration in terms of concentration of access
... This paper suggests a possible approach: the application of measures from the economic literature on inequality or concentration - the Gini coe¢ cient and Lorenz curve - to trade data. This produces simple, ...
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The Interactive Relationship between Regional Trade Integration and Foreign Direct Investment
... and trade growth (Majeed and Ahmed, ...and trade, crucially depend on whether FDI is horizontal or ...and trade; thus FDI and trade may be considered as substitutes for each other, whereas ...
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ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration. Cross-Regional Comparison of Trade Integration: The Case of Services
... services trade are very limited in number, compared with the literature on goods ...services trade in ...of trade in services is in Asia (UNESCAP 2011, ...our trade picture of Asia, wherein ...
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South Asian free trade agreement: prospects of shallow regional integration
... for regional integration and earnestly work towards achieving ...intra- regional trade in goods and ...sub-regional trade, investment and supply chain ...
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EABC STUDY ON IMPACT OF THE EAC CUSTOMS UNION ON BUSINESSES. Intergrated Development Consultants. Client: EABC Final Report, August 2008 Submitted By
... In his opening remarks, Mr.Kassim Omar, UNCCI’s First Vice-President welcomed participants to the workshop. He commended the EABC for the continued effort and investment in research geared at promoting the private sector ...
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Trade, proximity and growth: The impact of economic integration on Mexico's regional disparities
... above, trade in intermediate products in the Mexican economy was developed during GATT, as part of intra-firm production processes; thus, trade involved US direct ...free trade with the USA was so ...
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Services trade, regulation, and regional integration: Evidence from sectoral data
... The model includes regulatory policy variables taken mainly from the OECD Indicators of Product Market Regulation database. This database consists of several sub-databases such as the Indicators of Economy-wide ...
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Power Preponderance, Institutional Homogeneity, and the Likelihood of Regional Integration. Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series Vol. 7 No. 12 July 2007
... and trade can aid in strengthening allies’ economies and thereby improving military ...formal regional institutions while relative stability of capabilities tends to foster the establishment and deepening ...
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The European Community and Latin America. Communication from the Commission to the Council. COM (86) 720 final, 2 December 1986
... Official development assistance Regional integration Trade cooperation Industrial cooperation between firms and between public bodies Cooperation on information, communicatfon and cultur[r] ...
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INTRA REGIONAL TRADE, INTRA REGIONAL FDI AND ECONOMIC INTEGRATION: THE SOUTH ASIAN PERSPECTIVE
... larger regional bodies such as the European Union, the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) and the ASEAN are necessarily formed to ensure both economic efficiency and political strength needed to face ...
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Multilateral trade rules on regional trade: A case study of the East African community
... Paragraph (a) and (b) of Article XXIV (5) both provide that such an agreement should have more advantages and/or less restrictions than pre-existing arrangements to the members and/or parties in such agreements. The ...
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Trade Policy Developments in Tanzania: The Challenge of Global and Regional Integration
... the trade and welfare effects of customs unions concluded that the elimination of intra-regional trade barriers between small developing countries is likely to generate mostly trade diversion ...
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Assessing the Consequences of the Economic Partnership Agreement on the Ethiopian Economy
... the trade arrangement should take the format of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and abide to the article XXIV of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in order to be WTO ...all trade” ...
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Beyond Lisbon. Making the EU-Africa strategic partnership work. Commission/Council Secretariat joint paper. SEC (2007) 856 final, 27 June 2007
... illicit trade in natural resources, including through global initiatives such as the Kimberley process and the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) initiative along with issues relating to ...
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Cross-border Initiative: Eastern and Southern Africa and Indian Ocean. Workshop to facilitate cross-border trade, investment and payments. Harare, December 1972
... REGIONAL INTEGRATION AND COOPERATION IN AFRICA CROSS-BORDER INITIATIVE Eastern and Southern Africa and Indian Ocean Workshop to Facilitate Cross-Border Trade, Investment and Payments in [r] ...
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Cross-border initiative - Eastern and Southern Africa and Indian Ocean. Workshop to facilitate cross-border trade, investment and payments in Eastern and Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean. Harare, Zimbabwe, December 1992
... All sectors explain that Ethiopia does not have any discriminatory NTBs in operation. By this they mean barriers which can sway the direction of trade from one region or country to another. The only one in ...
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ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) : how far have we come? : analysis and evidence on effects of AFTA
... another regional dummy variable which is aimed at capturing extra-bloc effects on imports, the value of 1 is given if, in particular trade-pairs, an importer is an RTA- member, regardless of whether her ...
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THREE ESSAYS ON EXPORT CONCENTRATION, INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS, AND THE CARBON CONTENT OF TRADE
... The second essay reevaluates the competitiveness effect of environmental regu- lation on international trade. In doing so, the study contributes to the existing literature along three important margins. First, ...
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Cross-border Initiative: Eastern and Southern Africa and Indian Ocean. Vol. 2. Country papers and progress reports
... REGIONAL INTEGRATION AND COOPERATION IN AFRICA Volume 2 Country Papers and Progress Reports for the Initiative to Facilitate Cross-Border Trade, Investment and Payments in Eastern and So[r] ...
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"Regional trade and economic integration of Ukraine and the EU: update, problems and prospects"
... 8. Consequences assessment of the Free Trade Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, Schumylo О. Chief director and publications’ editor, Akhtyrko Y., Blinov O., Bordiuh B., Usenko O. and others (Кyiv: International ...
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