Trade and Investment Division
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)

 
Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Review
Vol. 2, No. 2, December 2006



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Research articles
1
Impact of SAFTA on trade in environmentally sensitive goods
in South Asia: emerging challenges and policy options

The relationship between liberalization in the logistics sector
and trade facilitation

Thailand's agricultural sector and free trade agreements

Enhancing the movement of natural persons in the ASEAN
region: opportunities and constraints

Tigers and dragons against elephants: does the rising Chinese
and Indian share of trade and foreign direct investment crowd
out Thailand and other ASEAN countries?
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Policy briefs
115
Role of technological capabilities in enhancing FDI flows in
developing Asia-Pacific economies

Agricultural liberalization in preferential trading agreements:
– the case of the ASEAN FTA

Is there a need for "market access" plus indicators?

How promising is SAFTA?
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Executive summaries of recent studies in trade
and investment published by the ESCAP secretariat

151
An exploration of the need for and cost of selected trade
facilitation measures in Asia and the Pacific in the context
of the WTO negotiations

153




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