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Trade Arrangements (trade + arrangement)

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Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	80%

Selected Abstracts

A Comparative Evaluation and Prognosis of Asia Pacific Bilateral and Regional Trade Arrangements

ASIAN-PACIFIC ECONOMIC LITERATURE, Issue 1 2004
Linda Low
This paper provides an evaluation of the growing regional and bilateral trade arrangements in Asia and discusses some plausible scenarios for Asian regionalism. Changes in international relations, information communications technology, the knowledge-based economy and deregulation have altered trade modalities in the international political economy. The ,new regionalism' activities in Asia appear to be a response to these international developments and to be complementary to WTO-managed trade liberalisation. [source]

Grasping the Commercial Institutional Peace

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2003
David H. Bearce
While the commercial institutional peace research program provides empirical evidence that international institutions, especially preferential trade arrangements, help reduce the incidence of militarized inter-state conflict, it fails to delineate clearly how such institutions matter. Building from the logic that low opportunity costs for fighting, private information, and commitment problems constitute important causes of war, this article explores three interrelated causal mechanisms. First, the state leaders' increased expectations about future commerce create an incentive for these actors to consider peaceful bargains as an alternative to costly war. Second, security coordination under the umbrella of a commercial institution provides fuller information about state military capabilities, thus making inter-state bargaining for dispute resolution more efficient. Third, in bringing together high-level state leaders on a regular basis, commercial institutions may create the trust necessary to overcome commitment problems in inter-state bargaining. I explore how these mechanisms have operated within the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Economic Community of West African States. [source]

Closer Economic Relations with East Asia?

THE ECONOMIC RECORD, Issue 238 2001
P.J. Lloyd
This paper examines Australia's economic links with East Asia and the policy implications of these links. The main issue is whether Australia should join the regional trading arrangements with East Asian countries that have been proposed. It examines the factors which determine the share of East Asia in Australian exports. One of these, the country bias factor, is threatened by proposed regional trading arrangements which might exclude Australia. After considering the costs of exclusion, the paper concludes that Australia should consider developing new bilateral or regional trade arrangements with countries in East Asia. [source]

REGIONAL TRADE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: AN ANALYSIS OF EAST AFRICAN TRADE COOPERATION, 1970,2001,

THE MANCHESTER SCHOOL, Issue 2 2005
COLIN KIRKPATRICK
The growth in regionalism in recent years has been reflected in a renewed interest within sub-Saharan Africa in regional trade arrangements, and the recent adoption of the East African Cooperation agreement has continued a long tradition of trade cooperation between the economies of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Using a gravity model approach, this paper examines the pattern of trade over the past three decades of regional trade cooperation in East Africa. The results suggest that regional trade cooperation has had a positive effect on the growth of trade between the three economies. [source]