Trade Capacity

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Theoretical justification

Infrastructure plays a vital role in promoting trade and curing trade deficit. Transport infrastructure can help a country to connect its remote area domestically and to business areas world wide at low cost. Good quality of energy infrastructure promotes capital-intensified industrialization and thus reduces production cost. Marketing is one of the most important tools of promoting products to capture the market which can be made possible through telecommunication. Better financial infrastructure helps to solve financial and liquidity barriers in the way of trade.