Economic Integration, Trade Facilitation and Agricultural Exports Performance in ECOWAS Sub-Region

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wumi Olayiwola ◽  
Evans Osabuohien ◽  
Henry Okodua ◽  
Oluyomi Ola-David
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Trade Facilitation ◽  
Agricultural Exports

scholarly journals FASILITASI PERDAGANGAN, KINERJA EKSPOR, DAN KETIMPANGAN PENDAPATAN DI NEGARA-NEGARA RCEP

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-46
Author(s):  
Raiyatu Imadidin ◽  
Dominicus Savio Priyarsono ◽  
Widyastutik Widyastutik
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
National Income ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Trade Facilitation ◽  
Major Trading Partner ◽  
Economic Partnership ◽  
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Detrimental Impact

The growth of global economic integration has added pressure for countries to reduce trade cost to make trades more profitable and to encourage their further development. As tariffs have progressively fallen, efforts in trimming trade costs have focused increasingly on non tariff measures, which have a detrimental impact on the free flow of international trade, as such trade facilitation is considered an important complement to trade liberalization efforts aimed at fostering economic integration. Trade is expected to increase overall national income. The increase in national income can be used to improve welfare by increasing household income which translates into inequality alleviation. Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a form of cooperation between 16 countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nation and other major trading partner countries. This study uses a simultaneous panel method to identify the trade facilitation, export performance, and income inequality by using 12 countries in the RCEP region during 2011-2015 period. The results show that the advantages of trade facilitation in RCEP associated with export performance to decrease inequality in RCEP region and RCEP developing countries, but increase increase in RCEP developed countries. Keywords: Export performance, Inequality, RCEP, Trade facilitation

scholarly journals The Declining Role of Latin America in Global Agricultural Trade, 1963–2000

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAÚL SERRANO ◽  
VICENTE PINILLA
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Agricultural Trade ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Agricultural Exports ◽  
Degree Of Participation ◽  
Latin American Countries ◽  
Regional Processes

AbstractIn the second half of the twentieth century, Latin American countries lost a substantial part of their importance in worldwide exports of agricultural and food products. Given this context, the objective of this article is to analyse the determinants of the evolution of agricultural exports from Latin America, paying special attention to the influence of regional processes of economic integration on exports and to their degree of participation in intra-industrial trade. We propose a gravity model with a data panel of total exports and product groups for six Latin American countries towards 39 destinations between 1963 and 2000.

scholarly journals Impact Of Trade Facilitation On Extensive Margin: A Ppml Panel Gravity Equation Approach

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imad Kareem Alaamshani ◽  
Hanny Zurina Hamzah ◽  
Shivee Ranjanee Kaliappan ◽  
Normaz Wana Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Maximum Likelihood ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Extensive Margin ◽  
Equation Approach ◽  
Communication Infrastructure ◽  
Trade Facilitation ◽  
Comprehensive Index ◽  
Pseudo Maximum Likelihood

Abstract This paper examines the link between trade facilitation and extensive margin for 111 countries over the period of 2008 to 2014. The study employs a panel pseudo-maximum likelihood (PPML) method to estimate the model. We measure trade facilitation using more comprehensive measures of enabling trade index (ETI); market access, border administration, transport and communication infrastructure, and business environment. The novelty in using ETI is a comprehensive index that takes into account the effects of factors, policies, and services facilitating the free flow of goods over borders and to the destination. The paper has four major findings. Our results highlight that better trade facilitation leads the countries to export, import more diversified, and a wider range of products. Second, improvement in the business environment and transport and communication infrastructure in trade facilitation yield the highest return in terms of increasing the number of exported products. Third, border administration coming as the second most important factor in affecting extensive margin. Forth and most interestingly, despite economic integration, there is a considerably stronger effect on the side of exporter’s trade facilitation, which shows large unexploited gains, to be reaped on the side of exporter countries trade facilitation.

scholarly journals FASILITASI PERDAGANGAN, KINERJA EKSPOR, DAN KETIMPANGAN PENDAPATAN DI NEGARA-NEGARA RCEP

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-46
Author(s):  
Raiyatu Imadidin ◽  
Dominicus Savio Priyarsono ◽  
Widyastutik Widyastutik
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
National Income ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Trade Facilitation ◽  
Major Trading Partner ◽  
Economic Partnership ◽  
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Detrimental Impact

The growth of global economic integration has added pressure for countries to reduce trade cost to make trades more profitable and to encourage their further development. As tariffs have progressively fallen, efforts in trimming trade costs have focused increasingly on non tariff measures, which have a detrimental impact on the free flow of international trade, as such trade facilitation is considered an important complement to trade liberalization efforts aimed at fostering economic integration. Trade is expected to increase overall national income. The increase in national income can be used to improve welfare by increasing household income which translates into inequality alleviation. Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a form of cooperation between 16 countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nation and other major trading partner countries. This study uses a simultaneous panel method to identify the trade facilitation, export performance, and income inequality by using 12 countries in the RCEP region during 2011-2015 period. The results show that the advantages of trade facilitation in RCEP associated with export performance to decrease inequality in RCEP region and RCEP developing countries, but increase increase in RCEP developed countries. Keywords: Export performance, Inequality, RCEP, Trade facilitation

Russian Protectionism: Problems of Institutional Heritage

2012 ◽  
pp. 96-114
Author(s):  
L. Tsedilin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
The State ◽  
New Economic Policy ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
State Monopoly ◽  
The Times ◽  
Soviet Experience

The article analyzes the pre-revolutionary and the Soviet experience of the protectionist policies. Special attention is paid to the external economic policy during the times of NEP (New Economic Policy), socialist industrialization and the years of 1970-1980s. The results of the state monopoly on foreign trade and currency transactions in the Soviet Union are summarized; the economic integration in the frames of Comecon is assessed.

Openness of the Russian economy as a source of economic growth

2016 ◽  
pp. 26-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Kadochnikov ◽  
A. Knobel ◽  
S. Sinelnikov-Murylev
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Regional Economic Integration ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Russian Economy

The paper considers measures on Russia’s integration into the global economy, aimed at the economic growth resumption. It analyzes conditions and mechanisms due to which the expanding trade and mutual investment with other countries contribute to economic growth in Russia. The paper provides policy recommendations for export support, regional economic integration agenda and the institutions reform.

The Palestinian Refugee Camps In Jordan: Between National Identity and Socio-economic Integration

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ala Al-Hamarneh
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Spatial Integration ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Distinct Character ◽  
Palestinian Refugee

At least 50 per cent of the population of Jordan is of Palestinian origin. Some 20 per cent of the registered refugees live in ten internationally organized camps, and another 20 per cent in four locally organized camps and numerous informal camps. The camps organized by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) play a major role in keeping Palestinian identity alive. That identity reflects the refugees' rich cultural traditions, political activities, as well as their collective memory, and the distinct character of each camp. Over the past two decades integration of the refugees within Jordanian society has increased. This paper analyses the transformation of the identity of the camp dwellers, as well as their spatial integration in Jordan, and other historical and contemporary factors contributing to this transformation.

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