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Resources for Researchers

• ARTNeT Trade Publication Database

The ARTNeT database of trade publications gives access to full-text trade-related publications of research institutions and international organizations working in the Asia-Pacific region, including ARTNeT members and partners. The database is updated regularly and allows search by trade focus areas, source, keywords and more.

• ARTNeT Gravity Modeling Initiative on “Behind the Border” Factors Affecting Trade (2008-9)

-   More information on ARTNeT Gravity Modeling Initiative

-   To access interactive Gravity Modeling database

-   click here to register

This initiative is designed to more closely integrate the research capacity building and research programme implementation objectives and activities of ARTNeT, particularly under ARTNeT priority Theme 1 (trade, investment and domestic policy coherence for inclusive growth). It includes regional technical research workshops, support for research studies to apply techniques learned, development of related research facilitation tools, and support for dissemination of policy relevant results.

• Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Agreements Database

The Interactive Trade Indicators (ITI) component of APTIAD is designed to help policymakers calculate some of the most commonly used indicators related to the real side of an economy’s trade profile. Details of the data coverage in APTIAD can be found here.

- To access Interactive Trade Indicators

• ESCAP Trade Cost Database

The Trade and Investment of Division, in support to the ARTNeT research programme on trade facilitation, has developed a bilateral trade cost database in an effort to increase understanding of the cost of trading between countries in Asia and the Pacific and beyond. The trade cost measure is a comprehensive all-inclusive measure based on micro-theory and calculated using macro-economic data, providing an alternative measure of trade facilitation performance. Click here to access the database and related information.

• ARTNeT Alerts on Emerging Policy Challenges

The purpose of ARTNeT Alerts is to provide a channel for policymakers and other informed stakeholders to alert the trade and investment research community to emerging policy challenges. This series hopes to generate a forward looking discussion among policymakers and researchers that will strengthen the policy relevance of ARTNeT trade and investment research programmes. Contributions to the series are invited from all stakeholders, particularly policymakers, civil society and the private sector, to highlight trade and investment policy issues they think deserve attention by policy researchers in the region.

   - Issue 1: Trade as an Engine of Stable Growth in an Integrated Asia
   - Issue 2: Preferential Trade Agreements: an Insurance Against Protectionism?
   - Issue 3: Trade Finance in Times of Crisis and Beyond
   - Issue 4: Climate Change and Trade Policy: A Preliminary Discussion
   - Issue 5: India's FDI Flows: Trying to Make Sense of the Numbers
   - Issue 6: Trade and Climate Change -- Development of the Emission Intensity Indices
   - Issue 7: Can Trade Policies Promote Gender Equality? Exploring the Trade – Growth – Gender Nexus

Useful links

• Selected online resources by areas of research

• ITC Trade Statistics

To access ITC Trade Statistics

• Tools for Agricultural Trade Analysis: ATPSM and AMAD

ATPSM (Agriculture Trade Policy Simulation Model) is a trade policy simulation model. It can be used as a tool for quantifying economic effects at the global and regional level of changes in trade policies. The user specifies a specific change in trade policy such as a tariff reduction and the model simulates the new prices and trade flows and calculates welfare effects. ATPSM is typically to analyse data from AMAD (Agricultural Market Access Database).

• TIS Gateway

TIS Gateway - ESCAP's Trade Information System Gateway provides up-to-date links to a wide range of trade and investment related resources.

• UNCTAD Virtual Institute

UNCTAD VI - is a knowledge sharing programme designed to strengthen the capacity of academic institutions to teach and research trade issues.

• ARTNeT Capacity Building Activities

http://www.unescap.org/tid/artnet/activity.asp

• Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics

click here to access The Terms of Trade and Other Wonders Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics