Trade facilitation has the potential to bring considerable economic gains to developing and least developed countries through improving their trade competitiveness and diversifying their export bases. The benefits of removing impediments to trade are substantial, with evidence suggesting that the gains from these reforms can be higher than reducing tariffs. WorldBank and UNESCAP data demonstrate that the Asia-Pacific region has made tremendous progress in reducing at- and behind-the-border time and costs, but the performance varies significantly across countries and subregions. UNESCAP recommends an integrated approach to trade facilitation which not only looks at border issues but also addresses domestic regulations and behind-the-border challenges. These issues include trade procedure...
...The best time to visit San Francisco is in spring or autumn, whe... Gate Park to the beach overlooking the Pacific Ocean . After all this activity, you are going to ...
The Vikings are back at sea, and this time they come in peace. Some 500 years after Scandinavians first explored North America and more than 200 years after Sweden declined as a world power, a new ship is embarking on a goodwill voyage meant to recreate a bit of Swedish history. The tall ship Götheborg left Sweden in October on a two-year odyssey that will take it across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans before she reaches her final destination in China. The original Götheborg sank mysteriously within sight of home 260 years ago, taking its precious cargo of Chinese porcelain, silk and tea to the bottom of the sea.
In an integrated global economy, specialisation in trade is an increasingly prominent strategy. A labor-abundant, resource-rich economy like Indonesia faces stiff competition in labor-intensive manufactures; meanwhile, rapid growth in demand for resources from China and India exposes it to the 'curse' of resource wealth. This diminishes prospects for more diversified growth based on renewable resources like human capital. Using an international panel data set we explore the influence of resource wealth, foreign direct investment and human capital on the share of skill-intensive products in exports. FDI and human capital increase this share; resource wealth diminishes it. We use the results to compare Indonesia with Thailand and Malaysia. Indonesia's reliance on skill-intensive export...
... dummy variables for developing economies, time period and world region. We fit the data to the fo... interval except 2000-05, an East Asia and Pacific regional dummy, and another for developing countri...
...Members of the crowd at the time thought that Tesla had housed a trained monkey ins... means for water sampling around the south Pacific nuclear test sites near Bikini Atoll. In fact, rem...
... Arabic world have been waiting for a long time, so I'm a happy president when we talk about the d... build sports academy schools in the South Pacific, the region he represents: some might argue that i...
The "new generation of Free Trade Agreements" announced by the Commission of the European Community signals an intention to substantially extend the geographic coverage of its reciprocal, preferential trade agreements. We review the development of regionalism in East Asia by listing the existing bilaterals and those under negotiation and conclude that the EC's initiative will have minimal effect in this region. However, globally, there are two super-hubs, namely the EC and the US, each with its network of spokes and associated rules. They are likely to compete to design any new multilateral rules which are WTO-plus.
... Agreement) with the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries and a Generalised System of Prefer... of all economies in the world, for some time at least. There are quite distinct groups of count...
... automatic five-second maximum reacquisition time and requires no operator intervention. . L-3 Linka... net using a low-angle satellite over the Pacific Ocean--one that had previously been almost impossi...
Several trading stories of women in business which are based on the forthcoming publication Economic Opportunities for Women in the Pacific by the International Finance Corp and AusAID, the Australian Government's overseas aid program, are presented. Gio Recycling, a waste management business, and its Managing Director Ofa Tu'ikolovatu are a visible part of Tonga's business landscape. Tu'ikolovatu is well known and respected in business and in the community for her efforts to reduce waste in Tonga. Beginning as a sole trader, Jackie Loheni recalls early days spent sewing on her auntie's veranda in Apia. But, realizing the requirements for expanding business, she registered MENA as a company with her mother and three sisters in 2000. Meanwhile, when Kim Arut's husband fell ill, she was l...
... the process of clearing customs costly and time-consuming. A male-dominated culture on the wharves...
... constitutes the major market failure of our time, then it is appropriate to search for an internati... proceeds at a very high rate in the Asia-Pacific region, these countries need energy, especially as...
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