US-China Geoeconomic Tensions: Implications for the African Continental Free Trade Area

AfricAn continentAl free trAde AreA: Policy and negotiation options for trade in Goods UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT AFRICAN CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA: Policy and Negotiation Options for Trade in Goods

Impact of ASEAN : China free trade area on trade flows

This paper estimates the impact of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement on the trade flows between China and the ASEAN countries. A gravity model with FTA specification is used to estimate the treatment effect of ACFTA. Since there are other unobserved variables that correlate with both the trade flows between China–ASEAN and the decision to form ACFTA, a cross-sectional OLS regression runs the...

Impact of China–ASEAN Free Trade Area on China’s International Agricultural Trade and Its Regional Development

This study aims to examine the impact of the China–ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) on China’s international agricultural trade and its regional agricultural development, using the Global Trade Analysis Project model and the China Agricultural Decision Support System. Our analysis showed that: (i) CAFTA will improve resource allocation efficiencies for both China and ASEAN and will promote bilater...

Comparing the Active Centers in the Area of Ethics in Science and Technology in the US, UK, China and India

Background: Nowadays, life increasingly relies on inclusive scientific and technological infrastructures. Today, the use of technology has been manifested in all aspects of people's lives, so that decision-making processes in all aspects are based on the indicators of science and technology. Science has even come up with issues such as ethics and tradition, so traditional issues of ethics in th...

A panel data analysis of trade creation and trade diversion effects: The case of ASEAN¬タモChina Free Trade Area

Article history: Received 8 February 2013 Received in revised form 1 April 2014 Accepted 5 April 2014 Available online 13 April 2014 This study uses a theoretically justified gravity model of trade to examine the impact of the ASEAN–China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA) on exports, focusing on trade creation and diversion effects. The model is tested on a sample of 31 countries over the period dat...