The digital economy is guiding cross-border business connectivity, market mechanisms, investments, business incubation, and digital public infrastructure cooperation. In the digital economy ecology, developing economies in the Indo-Pacific need to…
Digital trade is transforming global commerce, lowering transaction costs, connecting businesses across borders and expanding access to new markets. Yet, Africa's participation in this digital revolution remains disproportionately low.
The African…
This paper explores the characteristics and trends of services trade from the perspective of domestic value added (DVA) and examines the impact of digital trade rules on it using bilateral sector‐level panel data among 64 economies from 1996 to 2018…
The article analyzes the peculiarities of digital trade development and regulation in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. It indicates regional initiatives for digital trade governance and main difficulties hindering the growth of cross-…
In Africa’s efforts to achieve economic growth and enhance integration, the focus on intra-regional trade has intensified, fuelled by geographical proximity, and interconnected market dynamics. However, significant obstacles remain, one of which…
This study examines the impact of infrastructural development on bilateral trade flows using a panel of 51 African countries from 2003 to 2015. An infrastructure-augmented gravity model was estimated with different indicators of infrastructural…