Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade

The Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT) is an open regional network composed of leading trade research institutions across the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) region, and supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Agence française de développement (AFD).

ARTNeT Logo

The ARTNeT aims at increasing the amount of quality and relevant trade research in the region by harnessing the research capacity already available and developing additional capabilities. The activities of ARTNeT continue to be focused on three pillars, namely:

• production of demand-driven and home-grown research of the region;

• building of research capacity in the region, particularly that of least developed countries (LDCs); and

• dissemination of knowledge and information to key stakeholders.

Current members include 62 leading national trade research and academic institutions from almost 20 developing countries from East, South, and Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

ARTNeT Establishment and Structure

The Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT) was launched in November 2004 with the support of the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Trade and Investment Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) which provides both the Secretariat of the network and a direct regional link to trade policymakers and other international organizations.

Since its launch, the Network has attracted 40 member research institutions from the developing countries of the region and has gained some additional partners, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). A number of bilateral donors are also providing financial support to the network. For example, the Government of France and the Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development have provided support for the ARTNeT Greater Mekong Subregion initiative, and the Government of Macao, China funded the MARKHUB project.

ARTNeT Resources and Tools

ARTNeT provides access to the following tools and resources through its website:

The ARTNeT database of trade publications gives access to full-text trade-related publications of research institutions and international organizations working in the Asia-Pacific region, including those of ARTNeT members and partners. The database is updated regularly and allows search by trade focus areas, sources, keywords and more.

The Asia-Pacific Trade Agreements Database (APTIAD) gives researchers and policymakers easy access to all the preferential trade agreements entered into by the countries of the Asia and Pacific region and enables them to calculate some of the most commonly used indicators (e.g. export/import value, export/import growth, export/import share, trade share, trade intensity) by country or region, product and year.

ARTNeT Alerts provide a channel for policymakers and other stakeholders to alert the trade and investment research community to emerging policy challenges.

ARTNeT Knowledge Platforms

ARTNeT Aid for Trade is designed to provide conceptual understanding of what is the importance of aid towards trade and development. The platform aims at disseminating comprehensive information on stakeholders It is expected that this platform also contribute towards supporting greater regional cooperation and coordinating among the actors of Aid for Trade in Asia and Pacific. The platform provides access to over 2500 full text working papers, reports and other materials available in the ARTNeT Publication Search Database.

ARTNeT CENSUS is a knowledge sharing initiative in the area of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs).It is designed to bring together regional stakeholders to build support to policy-making necessary for growth of the innovation economy by offering the Asia-Pacific region. CENSUS will also provide a unique platform for enabling research and related output dissemination. It includes a searchable database of individuals be they policymakers, academics or intellectual property lawyers from within and outside the region with the interests in IPRs.

ARTNeT Services Trade and regulation platform provides enhanced access to resources relating to trade and regulation in services, including links to trainings and publications, as well as to databases of statistics and regulations of relevance to services. There is also an on-line registration for experts in these areas.

ARTNeT GMS initiative aims to provide enhanced complementary support to research institutions from the subregion to conduct joint trade-related research on issues of interest to policymakers. The initiative includes a capacity-building component involving researchers and research institutions in GMS countries, as well as a research programme component in line with priority areas identified through ARTNeT consultations and relevant government focal points. It provides up-to-date figures on development gaps between member states in ASEAN.

ARTNeT Publications

ARTNeT presents materials from ARTNeT research programmes and/or individual research programmes of members in the form of ARTNeT policy briefs, working paper, newsletters, books, books reviews, and other publications all of which are available for viewing and downloading free of charge on its website.

Recent topics have included:

ARTNeT Events and Training

ARTNeT organizes conference/workshops/policy to provide an opportunity for researchers to showcase their work and to get input and feedback from prominent trade experts and policymakers from around the world. The dissemination events help to address issues which are of particular relevance in one country, while drawing from studies and lessons from other countries to reach policy conclusions.

ARTNeT Members

Country Institute Website
1 Australia Griffith University (GBS Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics) http://www.griffith.edu.au/business-government/griffith-business-school/departments/department-accounting-finance-economics
2 Australia Institute for International Trade http://www.iit.adelaide.edu.au/
3 Australia School of Economics, University of Adelaide http://www.economics.adelaide.edu.au/
4 Australia The University of Wollongong, Australia https://web.archive.org/web/20160225013542/https://www.uow.edu.au/index.html
5 Bangladesh Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies http://www.bids.org.bd/
6 Bangladesh Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute (BFTI) http://www.bfti.org.bd/
7 Bangladesh Bangladesh Tariff Commission http://www.btc.gov.bd/
8 Bangladesh Centre for Policy Dialogue https://web.archive.org/web/20120920052445/http://www.cpd.org.bd/index.asp
9 Bangladesh South Asian Network of Economic Modelers (SANEM) http://sanemnet.org/
10 Bangladesh The Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh (PRI) http://www.pri-bd.org/
11 Cambodia Cambodia Development Resource Institute, Cambodia http://www.cdri.org.kh/
12 China China Europe International Business School http://www.ceibs.edu/
13 China Chinese Academy for International Trade and Economic Cooperation https://web.archive.org/web/20110811142330/http://caitec.mofcom.gov.cn/
14 China School of International Trade and Economics, University of International Business and Economics http://site.uibe.edu.cn/newsenglish/Index.aspx
15 China Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade https://web.archive.org/web/20110830182531/http://www1.shift.edu.cn/english/
16 China The Institute for Applied International Trade (IAIT)
17 Fiji University of South Pacific, Fiji (Pacific Institute of Advanced Studies in Development and Governance http://www.usp.ac.fj/economics
18 Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute of Economics & Finance, Hong Kong University http://www.hiebs.hku.hk
19 India Center for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade http://wtocentre.iift.ac.in/
20 India Department of Economics, Jadavpur University https://web.archive.org/web/20070304195717/http://www.jadavpur.edu/
21 India Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations http://www.icrier.org
22 India Indian Institute of Management Bangalore https://web.archive.org/web/20170428224739/http://www.iimb.ernet.in/
23 India Research and Information System for Developing Countries http://www.ris.org.in/
24 India The Energy and Resources Institute http://www.teriin.org/
25 Indonesia Centre for Strategic and International Studies http://www.csis.or.id/
26 Indonesia Centre for World Trade Studies Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta (CwtsPspd) http://cwts.ugm.ac.id
27 Indonesia Economics Department, and Business and Management Graduate School, Bogor Agricultural University http://mb.ipb.ac.id/
28 Indonesia Center for Industry, SME and Business Competition Studies, Faculty of Economics, Trisakti University https://web.archive.org/web/20130726135030/http://www.fe.trisakti.ac.id/pusatstudi_industri/
29 Indonesia Center for International Trade and Investment https://www.facebook.com/uphciti/
30 Iran Center of Excellence for International Economics of the University of Isfahan (CEIEUI) http://research.ui.ac.ir/ceieui/
31 Kyrgyzstan Institute of Public Policy and Administration, University of Central Asia, Kyrgyz Republic http://www.ucentralasia.org/ippa.asp
32 Lao PDR Economic Research Institute for Trade http://www.laosaft.org/erit/
33 Lao PDR National University of Lao http://www.nuol.edu.la/
34 Malaysia Institute of Malaysian and International Studies http://www.ukm.my/ikmas/
35 Malaysia The Department of Economics, International Islamic University http://www.iium.edu.my/kenms/department/doe
36 Mongolia Mongolian Development Strategy Institute (MDSI)
37 Mongolia International Think Tank for LLDCs http://land-locked.org/
38 Nepal Institute for Policy Research and Development http://www.iprad.org.np/
39 Nepal Development Policy Research (IDPR)
40 Nepal South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment http://www.sawtee.org/
41 New Zealand Centre for Agribusiness Policy & Strategy (CAPS), Massey University http://www.cuts-citee.org/
42 New Zealand Economics Department, Auckland University of Technology http://www.aut.ac.nz/study-at-aut/A-Z-listing-of-academic-fields-and-disciplines-at-AUT-University/economics
43 Pakistan Pakistan Institute of Development Economics http://www.pide.org.pk/
44 Pakistan Pakistan Institute of Trade and Development http://www.pitad.org.pk/
45 Pakistan Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SPDI) http://www.sdpi.org/
46 Philippines Center for the Advancement of Trade Integration and Facilitation http://www.catif.org/
47 Philippines Centre for Business and Economics Research and Development, De La Salle University, Philippines http://www.dlsu.edu.ph/research/centers/cberd/default.asp
48 Philippines Philippine Institute for Development Studies http://www.pids.gov.ph/
49 Republic of Korea Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, Republic of Korea http://www.kiep.go.kr/eng/index.jsp
50 Russia The Economic Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS) http://www.ecrin.ru/
51 Singapore The Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore (ISAS-NUS) https://web.archive.org/web/20160311204817/http://www.isas.nus.edu.sg/Pages/home.aspx
52 Singapore The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Regional Economic Studies Program, Singapore https://www.iseas.edu.sg/
53 Sri Lanka Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya https://web.archive.org/web/20160418105424/http://agri.pdn.ac.lk/dept/econ_home.php
54 Sri Lanka Institute of Policy Studies http://www.ips.lk/
55 Thailand Centre for International Economics and Development Studies http://www.econ.nida.ac.th
56 Thailand Thailand Development Research Institute http://www.tdri.or.th/en/php/index.php
57 Thailand The Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University http://www.econ.chula.ac.th/
58 Thailand International Institute for Trade and Development http://www.itd.or.th/
59 Thailand The Mekong Institute, GMS Inter-Governmental Organization based in Khon Kaen, Thailand http://mekonginstitute.org/
60 Thailand Thammasat Institute for Study of International Cooperation (TISIC) http://www.apecthai.org/
61 Viet Nam Centre for Analysis and Forecasting, Viet Nam
62 Viet Nam Foreign Trade University https://web.archive.org/web/20080730014335/http://en.ftu.edu.vn/

ARTNeT Associate Partners

Institute Website
1 Asian Development Bank http://www.adb.org/
2 Asian Development Bank Institute http://www.adbi.org/
3 Latin American Integration Association (ALADI)
4 CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics and Environment (CUTS-CITEE) http://www.cuts-citee.org/
5 Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) http://www.eria.org/
6 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) http://www.fao.org/home/en/
7 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) http://www.oecd.org/
8 United Nations University - Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) http://cris.unu.edu/
9 World Bank http://www.worldbank.org/

ARTNeT Core Partners

Institute Website
1 Agence Française de Développement http://www.afd.fr/lang/en/home
2 United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) Trade and Investment Division* http://www.unescap.org/tid/
3 International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Pages/default.aspx
4 World Trade Organization (WTO) https://www.wto.org/
5 UNDP Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Initiative http://www.impresaitalia.info/
6 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) http://unctad.org/en/Pages/Home.aspx

* UNESCAP TID serves as the ARTNeT Secretariat

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.