Trade performance and competitiveness

This volume comprises four selected research essays on different aspects of trade and industry issues that are of significance and interest to researchers and policy analysts alongside policy makers in the Asian region: 1) Structural transformation and trade policy: Case of Nepal, 2) Logistics performance and trade: An analysis of India's trade in intermediates with Bangladesh and Thailand, 3) An analysis of export performance of manufacturing and service sector enterprises in Sri Lanka, and 4) Evaluation of business association membership on small and medium enterprises' growth performance: Evidence from enterprise survey of Cambodia. These essays are written by researchers in Asian countries, brought together by the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT) which from April 2011 until September 2013 has implemented its Phase III under the topic of 'Drivers of Competitiveness and Strategies for Economic Diversification for Developing Countries - Building Policy Making Capacity in Asia and the Pacific.'