Browsing Working papers by Author "Utoktham, Chorthip"
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Agricultural trade costs in Asia and the Pacific : patterns, compositions and determinants
Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip; Wermelinger, Martin; Lee, Jee Hye (United Nations, 2012)Agriculture remains the backbone of most Asia-Pacific developing economies and approximately 50% of the Asian working population is employed in the agricultural sector. In view of the export potential of agricultural ... -
Behind the border trade facilitation in Asia-Pacific : cost of trade, credit information, contract enforcement and regulatory coherence
Utoktham, Chorthip; Duval, Yann (United Nations, 2009)The performance of Asia-Pacific countries in terms of both trade and business facilitation varies greatly. However, with a few exceptions, developing countries in the region have much room for improvement. This paper ... -
Behind-the-border trade facilitation in Asia-Pacific : cost of trade, credit information, contract enforcement and regulatory coherence
Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip (United Nations, 2009)This paper evaluates the potential contribution of both trade and business facilitation measures to trade and export competitiveness, as well as the potential gains from adopting a more integrated and coherent approach to ... -
Do trade facilitation provisions in regional trade agreements matter? : impact on trade costs and multilateral spillovers
Duval, Yann; Neufeld, Inge Nora; Utoktham, Chorthip (United Nations, 2016)This is ARTNeT Working Paper No. 164, "Do trade facilitation provisions in regional trade agreements matter? Impact on trade costs and multilateral spillovers", by Yann Duval, Nora Neufeld and Chorthip ... -
Enabling participation of SMEs in international trade and production networks : trade facilitation, trade finance and communication technology
Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip (United Nations, 2014)This study aimed at identifying key factors affecting SME participation in direct export and international production networks (IPNs), both globally and in Asia and the Pacific. A global dataset of firm-level data from ... -
Has the WTO trade facilitation agreement helped reduce trade costs? : an ex-post analysis
Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip (United Nations, 2022)Five years after the entry into force of the WTO TFA, we set out to find macro-level quantitative evidence of the impact of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) on trade costs. Using the updated ESCAP-World Bank ...
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Impact of trade facilitation on foreign direct investment
Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip (United Nations, 2014)Countries that implement trade facilitation reforms and enhance trade efficiency and connectivity are generally expected to attract more foreign direct investments. This paper is a first attempt to quantify the potential ... -
Intraregional trade costs in Asia : a primer
Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip (United Nations, 2010)While much has been said about the need to promote intraregional trade and the importance of reducing associated trade costs, quantitative estimates of such costs have been lacking. A new comprehensive measure of international ... -
Trade costs in Asia and the Pacific : improved and sectoral estimates
Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip (United Nations, 2011)There is ample evidence that successful implementation of bilateral or regional trade and economic integration initiatives would have a very significant impact on intraregional trade in Asia and the Pacific. However, little ... -
Trade costs in the developing world : 1995 – 2010
Utoktham, Chorthip; Duval, Yann; Shepherd, Ben; Arvis, Jean-François (United Nations, 2012)The authors use newly collected data on trade and production in 178 countries to infer estimates of trade costs in agriculture and manufactured goods for the 1995-2010 periods. The data show that trade costs are strongly ... -
Trade costs in the India-mekong subregion : identifying policy priorities for trade facilitation
Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip (United Nations, 2011)This paper explores the trade facilitation performance of India and Mekong countries using a new measure of bilateral comprehensive trade costs, complemented by a review of specific trade policy and trade facilitation-related ... -
Trade facilitation in Asia and the Pacific : which policies and measures affect trade costs the most?
Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip (United Nations, 2011)How much of international trade costs can be mitigated through implementation of trade facilitation measures and policies? What measures and policies affect trade costs the most? This paper presents findings from an initial ... -
Trade facilitation in Asia and the Pacific : which policies and measures affect trade costs the most? 2015 update
Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip (United Nations, 2015)How much of international trade costs can be mitigated through implementation of trade facilitation measures and policies? What measures and policies affect trade costs the most? This paper updates findings from ... -
Trade facilitation in Asia and the Pacific : which policies and measures affect trade costs the most? 2015 update
Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip (United Nations, 2011)How much of international trade costs can be mitigated through implementation of trade facilitation measures and policies? What measures and policies affect trade costs the most? This paper presents findings from an initial ... -
Value added trade costs in goods and services
Duval, Yann; Saggu, Aman; Utoktham, Chorthip (United Nations, 2015)This study introduces a new dataset of bilateral value added trade costs for the goods and services sectors, based on a measure derived from the micro-founded gravity model and using data from the OECD-WTO TiVA database. ...