By Pierre Sauv, Gloria Pasadilla and Mia Mikic Despite most of the Asian economies depending on a strong manufacturing sector in their export-led growth during the past several decades, the service sector has been receiving ...

Among the most notable recent developments in the trading environment of the Asia-Pacific region has been the proliferation of preferential trading arrangements (PTAs). Many of the agreements are bilateral, involving ...

<p></p> Reducing trade costs is essential for developing economies to participate in international production networks and effectively use trade as an engine of growth and sustainable development. This can be accomplished ...

This section discusses briefly how the study objective was conceived and provides an overview of trade among the Participating States of APTA. It also sets the objective, and discusses the methodology and data sources ...

This book is a synthesis of the results and implications from a series of product-specific import and export process analyses conducted in selected Asian countries. It provides a unique set of micro-level information on ...

This is ARTNeT Book Review No. 32, 'The Indian Economy: A Macro-economic Perspective', Nilanjan Banik, reviewed by Harsh Parikh. <p></p> This book analyses the Indian economy after the 1991 reforms. It draws a panoramic ...

Managing climate change caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has been recognized as one of the world's greatest challenges in current times, in particular in Asia and the Pacific which accounts for most of the world's ...

<p></p> Reducing trade costs is essential for developing economies to effectively use trade as an engine of growth and sustainable development. As a result, trade facilitation and the digitalization of trade procedures ...

The agricultural sector lies at the heart of the trade and sustainable development nexus. In the Asia-Pacific region, agricultural production provides livelihoods to close to half of the regional population. Agricultural ...

This Report presents the main findings of the second UN Global Survey on Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade Implementation covers 120 countries and 47 measures related to the WTO's Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), ...