This study shows that countries relying on limited bilateral trade relationships are particularly vulnerable to disruptions in food supply. Network maps employed also reveal unexploited potential trade relationships.
The paper aims to present the key challenges being faced by the Asia and Pacific region as a number of its developing economies graduate from a low-income status to middle-income status.
This paper examines the drivers of international production networks and vertical trade integration in an augmented gravity model that employs the newly developed Network Trade Index.
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the issues, policies, and political economy of infrastructure investment, and a review of empirical literature of the relationship between growth and infrastructure.
This paper finds that fewer jobs were created through exports in manufacturing industries in 2005 than before the Asian financial crisis. However, there was an increase in jobs in the service sector.
This paper examines the relationship between cross-border mergers and acquisitions and financial development in emerging nine Asian economies.
This paper examines the impact on employment and wages of liberalization in selected services subsectors—banking, distribution, and telecommunications—from 1991 to 2004 in the Philippines.
To close significant income and nonincome development gaps around the world, governments must go beyond policies that simply increase economic growth. They have to include policies that close nonincome development gaps directly.
Merchandise trade costs between the People’s Republic of China and India have declined during the period 1980–2008. This is due to a large, increasing portion of growth in total trade between these countries.
Using a computable general equilibrium model of its economy, this study assesses Indonesia's economywide welfare and distributional implications of the Doha Development Agenda to its agricultural sector and broader trade liberalization.
This insightful book collects empirical analyses and case studies to clarify issues and draw policy recommendations for facilitating greater regional trade through increased cooperation.