In 2019, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) actively engaged civil society organizations (CSOs) by tapping their local knowledge,…

Special economic zones (SEZs) are considered as one of important regional industrial policies to attract foreign investment in…

We conducted a standard gravity exercise using worldwide disaggregated trade data to shed light on the influence of the spread of…

Innovation is key for developing countries to escape the middle-income trap, for multiple reasons. First, labor-saving technologies and…

Bangladesh, a labour-abundant country, benefits from foreign direct investment (FDI), as it is considered to be a supplement to domestic…

We use Indian livestock census data to show that states with more stringent slaughter laws perform better in terms of cattle population…

Over the past decade, India’s mining sector, including the non-fuel mineral sector, has been marred by countless controversies. From…

The vision of connecting Cambodia to regional and global value chains (GVCs) is not new but the result of decades-old strategic…

Small businesses are considered one of the sources of innovation, productivity and dynamism in many countries. Thus, to translate…

Increased participation in global value chains is firmly related to the engagement of local producers in international markets through…