ASEAN Economic Cooperation: Trade Liberalization Impacts on the National Economy

Trade Liberalization and Economic Growth in Iranian Economy

The goal of this study is to investigate the effect of trade liberalization on economic growth in Iranian economy using a Cobb–Douglas production function, which is expanded to take into account political instability and trade liberalization. The empirical results show that in the long run the real export and import duty have positive effect on GDP, while the Labor force and education causes to...

Estimating the Poverty Impacts of Trade Liberalization

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Textile Trade Liberalization: Concerns about Widening Gaps among ASEAN Nations

Among the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), there are wide economic gaps between more developed countries including Singapore and Thailand and less developed ones including Vietnam. The gaps represents one of the largest obstacles to realizing the ASEAN’s goal of market integration and the situation is at risk of getting even worse next year, as it is increasingly l...

The Liberalization of Trade in Textiles and Clothing: China’s impact on the ASEAN economies

On January 1, 2005, quotas on textile and clothing trade were lifted. With this, US and EU pricecompetitive clothing imports from China soared. Recent talk of quota safeguards notwithstanding, this has development implications for other, relatively uncompetitive, countries—especially those heavily reliant on textile and clothing exports. This study examines the effect that China will have on th...

Trade Liberalization, Privatization and Economic Growth