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impact of trade costs on trade: empirical evidence from Asian countries

In: Trade Facilitation Beyond the Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Regional Practices, Customs Valuation and Other Emerging Issues

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  • Prabir De

    (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP))

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this chapter looks at trade facilitation in a trade (transaction) cost framework, and evaluates the impact of transport costs and underdeveloped infrastructure on bilateral trade flows of 10 Asian developing countries.

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  • Prabir De, 2008. "impact of trade costs on trade: empirical evidence from Asian countries," STUDIES IN TRADE AND INVESTMENT, in: Trade Facilitation Beyond the Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Regional Practices, Customs Valuation and Other Emerging Issues, pages 281-310, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
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    1. Limao, Nuno & Venables, Anthony J., 1999. "Infrastructure, geographical disadvantage, and transport costs," Policy Research Working Paper Series 2257, The World Bank.
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    trade costs; trade; Asian countries;
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