... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Internationalisation Economic Integration Gravity One Belt One Road The One Belt One Road seeks to have in its spectrum a sizeable Eurasian region. This mega project of China, incepted and announced in 2013, has mickle of countries hitherto under its...

.... Findings Useful observations emerge regarding the classification of relevant factors, conceptual integration, analytical responses to problems arising in the context of accelerating economic integration across the globe and realistic model building. Practical implications Insights generated may...

...). Design/methodology/approach Theoretically, the augmented knowledge‐capital model of Baltagi et al. is refined by additionally assuming the presence of tariffs and economic integration. Subsequently, the theoretical predictions are hypothesized to be driven by numerical simulation of a derived...

.... Originality/value Given the strength of emotions surrounding the issue, the proposed approach will assist in detoxing the debate and in providing an avenue for vertical and horizontal consensus building on the issue. International trade Labour Social economics Economic integration Poverty...