The continuous growth in world trade depends on the efficiency of trade support structures
such as the logistics services. Despite logistics integral role in supporting commercial …

We determine how time delays affect trade, using newly collected data on the days it takes to
move standard cargo from the factory gate to the ship in 98 countries. We estimate a …

We work with a panel of bilateral trade, exploring the influence of infrastructure and
institutional quality on patterns of trade with a Poisson estimator, extended with the Baier …

Agri-food global value chains (GVCs) have transformed food production and trade, fostering
efficiency and specialization across international borders and also introducing new …

Infrastructure plays a key role in facilitating trade, especially since recent trade liberalization
in Asia has resulted in significant tariff reductions. This study quantifies the impacts of both …

China is the second biggest economy in the world and almost 40% of its trade in 2016 is
transported through the South China Sea. China needs a small, secure, and low‐cost path …

Africa's share of global exports has dropped by 50 percent over the last three decades. To
stem this decline, aid for trade to the region has increased rapidly in recent years …

Contemporary development policy portrays enhanced connectivity as the key to fostering
economic growth in lagging regions. This global policy consensus and consequent …

Trade facilitation, defined as reducing the transaction costs associated with the enforcement,
regulation and administration of trade policies, has been at the forefront of discussions on …

International trade has grown substantially faster than world income through most of the post
war period, 1 and at the same time the share of manufacturing in world trade has increased …