A paper from Kathmandu University introduces a graph-based index to measure the impact of preferential trade agreements on regional trade integration. The methodology analyzes a world trade network graph where nodes are countries and edges represent export values. The work proposes a Regional Trade Integration Index (RTII) and an Individual Contribution Index (ICI) to evaluate changes before and after trade agreements.
Use Cases
- Calculating the Regional Trade Integration Index (RTII) based on intra-regional versus extra-regional export sums.
- Measuring individual country contributions to regional integration using the Individual Contribution Index (ICI).
- Analyzing changes in trade network structure before and after the formation of preferential trade agreements.
- Graph-based analysis of world trade flows to assess the strength of regional economic blocs.
Strengths
- The paper introduces a specific, defined index (RTII) for quantifying regional trade integration.
- Methodology is explicitly described using a graph representation of world trade.
- The dataset is associated with an Open Access (green) license.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count, file formats, and last update date are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- Yash Raj Lamsal, Kathmandu University, via paperswithcode.
- Collection Method
- Likely derived from world trade export data represented as a directed graph.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated date is unknown; freshness unverified.
- Geography
- Global, covering a set of all countries (W).