Without direct access to a sea or ocean and isolated from the world’s largest markets, landlocked developing countries … sharply and for longer than the rest of the world. The report demonstrates the vital role the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement … (TFA) can play in boosting output and facilitating world trade by simplifying, modernizing and harmonizing the movement …

The theme of this year’s Report is “Trade in a Globalizing World”. The Report provides a reminder of what we know about … range of interlinking questions, starting with a consideration of what constitutes globalization, what drives it, what … benefits does it bring, what challenges does it pose and what role does trade play in this world of ever-growing inter …

enable the WTO to adapt and respond effectively to our fast-changing world. A chapter is devoted to each of the sessions held …

A collection of papers by some of the world’s leading specialists on global value chains (GVCs). It examines how GVCs … have evolved and the challenges they face in a rapidly changing world. The approach is multidisciplinary, with …

potential to transform international trade profoundly in the years to come. The World Trade Report 2018 examines how digital …

This paper has two purposes. The first is to define clearly different social mobility concepts and components. The … second is to embed these concepts and components into a larger context of social mobility research. The core of the paper … develops six mobility concepts and their measures as well as six macromobility components and their measures. The next section …