Trade

Reading Time: 5 minutes Author: Asha Sundaram, University of Auckland India’s exit in November 2019 from negotiations on the world’s largest trade deal — the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) — was a significant…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Debashis Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. After pursuing an active regional trade agreement (RTA) policy since 2005, India changed course in November 2019. Having participated in Regional Comprehensive…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Dr Biswajit Dhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University From early 2022, India’s exports have looked distinctly different. India seemed to have turned towards economic isolationism in 2019 when the government decided…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Aasheerwad Dwivedi, Delhi University Historical experience presents ‘structural transformation’ as a necessary condition for achieving high economic growth in any country. The typical transformation path involves people moving from…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: John Harley Breen, Dublin The United Kingdom is in discussions to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), with UK trade officials stating that rapid progress…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Min-Hua Chiang, NUS East Asia Institute Taiwan’s economy has outshined most others in the last two years. While the COVID-19 recession was hard most everywhere else, Taiwan’s economy enjoyed…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Author: Chen Wang, United States China has benefited tremendously from neoliberal globalisation and its accession to the World Trade Organization — this helped the country become the world’s second-largest economy…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Author: Nguyen Anh Duong, Central Institute for Economic Management Following years of effort, in 2015 Vietnam concluded negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. After the US withdrawal from…

Reading Time: 5 minutes Author: Shin-wha Lee, Korea University The international community has faced an unprecedented social and economic shock due to three ‘big bangs’ — increasing US–China strategic competition, the fourth industrial revolution…