Asia Regional Integration Center

In a new paper written for the September 2011 NBER-Bank of England conference “Globalization in an Age of Crisis: Multilateral Economic Cooperation in the Twenty-First Century"...

Protectionism seems to be back in favour for many policymakers in the G20. Since the start of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in September 2008, protectionist measures are reported to have outnumbered liberalizing measures by five to one worldwide.

Anti-dumping (AD) investigations are widespread. According to a WTO Report, from 1995 to 2008, there were 43 countries that launched a total of 3427 investigations against 100 countries.

Evidence supporting exporters as more productive than non-exporters is well documented, but evidence on why or how they become more productive is less conclusive.

In terms of container export flows, the Peoples' Republic of China (PRC) has been outpacing both manufacturing exporters, the USA and Europe for years.

In 2008, RuralShores, India's leading rural business process outsourcing (BPO) company, established its first BPO center at Bagepalli--a drought-prone town outside Bangalore.

A recent paper (Ferrarini, B. 2012, Myanmar’s Trade and its Potential, to be published soon) assesses Myanmar’s merchandise trade against potential by fitting an augmented gravity model to a panel data set of...

The world dollar standard is an accident of history that greatly facilitates international trade and exchange.

No reasonable economists would disagree that trade openness and productivity is good for growth.

Rising wages in the People's Republic of China (PRC) have sparked off concerns the world over.