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This paper examines inter-country variations and growing volume of Intra-industry trade for thirty rapidly industrializing Asian and Latin American countries in the 1990s. With rapid industrialization, intra-industry trade in manufactures products have increased substantially. We find that intra-industry trade; (i) increases with per capita GNP; (ii) has a positive association with total trade to GDP ratio; (iii) grows with the share of manufacturing value-added in GDP and exports. Despite having positive impacts, the effect of regional integration schemes like ASEAN and LAIA is ambiguous depending on the relative strength of trade creation and trade diversion inside and outside the group.

1. Introduction and Overview -- 2. An analysis of savings among rural poor households in Rwanda -- 3. Economic Modelling of Capital Market and Sustainable Investment in Rwanda -- 4. The Working of Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism in Rwanda: An Econometric Analysis using Equilibrium Model -- 5. Effect of Population Growth on Economic Development in Rwanda -- 6. Innovation and Firms' Performance in the Rwandese Manufacturing Industry: A firm Level Empirical Analysis -- 7. Business Networks and SMEs Growth in Rwanda -- 8. Optimizing a Network of Drone-aided Healthcare Services in Rural Rwanda -- 9. Determinants of Profit Shifting by Multinational Companies In Developing Countries: A Case Of Rwanda -- 10. Determinants of entrepreneurship sustainability among family businesses in Rwanda: case of small and medium family businesses in Kigali -- 11. Assessing the role of positioning strategy on market performance of soft drink manufacturing enterprises (SDMEs) in Rwanda -- 12. Determinants of the Rwandese Food and Beverage Processing Productivity: Do Tax incentives matter? -- 13. Effect of tax incentives on the growth of SMES in Rwanda: a case study of SMEs in Nyarugenge district.

With the rise of India and other Southern engines of growth, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and similar vehicles for South–South regional cooperation have gained in importance. Developing a stochastic frontier gravity model, this article investigates the presence of significant 'behind the border' and 'beyond the border' constraints and analyzes the potential synergy between trade and development goals in the context of SAARC. In particular, the article demonstrates: (a) a considerable potential for improvement of trade complementarities among SAARC members; (b) a long-run scope for gains from trade; (c) country-specific 'socio-political–economical–institutional' rigidities form 'behind the border' constraints to trade; (d) that realization of trade potential would eliminate development deficits via growth dividends through trade and investment spillovers, exchange of skills and knowledge; and (e) since tariffs are not an important barrier in this region, emphasis should be placed on higher technology cooperation, and cooperation in areas of education, literacy, gender, institutions ensuring good governance, social capital and infrastructure, to help achieve the SAARC Development Goals (SDGs). The main policy insights are that the removal of 'behind the border' barriers and policy coordination would reduce 'productivity lags' and close the 'gap'.

In this paper, all technology transfers are embodied in trade flows within a three-region, one- traded-commodity version of the GTAP model. Exogenous Hicks-Neutral technical progress in one region can have uneven impacts on productivity elsewhere. Why? Destination regions' ability to harness new technology depends on their absorptive capacity and the structural congruence of the source and destination. Together with trade volume, these two factors determine the recipient's spillover coefficient (which measures its success in capturing foreign technology). Armington competition between the outputs of the three economies and shifts in their terms of trade loom large in the general equilibrium adjustment. This has implications for public policy in the context of human capital formation, role of education especially for the developing economies like the East-Asian countries.