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Regional Cooperation on Trade and Transport Facilitation

In: Impact of Trade Facilitation on Export Competitiveness: a Regional Perspective

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  • Florian A. Alburo

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

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This chapter attempts to identify regional cooperation measures that support trade and transport facilitation and thereby enhance export competitiveness. This will be done by examining some experiences in Asia and the Pacific that illustrate how cooperation has developed or is developing.

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  • Florian A. Alburo, 2009. "Regional Cooperation on Trade and Transport Facilitation," STUDIES IN TRADE AND INVESTMENT, in: United Nations Economic & Social Commission for Asia & the Pacific (ESCAP) (ed.), Impact of Trade Facilitation on Export Competitiveness: a Regional Perspective, volume 66, chapter 3, pages 71-88, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
    • Handle: RePEc:unt:ecchap:tipub2543_florian
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    1. Florian Alburo & Kester TAY Yi-Xun, 2008. "Policy Coherence and Coordination for Trade Facilitation: Integrated Border Management, Single-Windows and other Options for Developing Countries," Working Papers 5708, Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT), an initiative of UNESCAP and IDRC, Canada..
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