The European Union's strong positions in international services trade are mainly in finance and insurance, as well as in computing wherethey are now challenged by large emerging countries. The United Kingdom appears to be the only large European country specialized inservices with strong growth....

Greater trade integration within Middle East and North Africa region is expected to happen through the completion of the Pan-Arab Free Trade Agreement. However; recent studies suggest that when resource rich and resource poor countries give preferences to each other; as in PAFTA; the resource...

The brutal drop in global trade during the last quarter of 2008 and the first months of 2009 has been the subject of much discussion. Some have seen this fall-off, which was considerably steeper than the accompanying decline in production, as a reversal of previous trends. The international...

1978-2008, CEPII is thirty years old! For La Lettre du CEPII, its four-page, monthly publication, it is an opportunity to look back over the thousands of pages published since its first issue.

Comme la plupart des pays du monde, la France propose diverses aides publiques aux entreprises souhaitant exporter. Deux rapports publics, publiés coup sur coup en 2013, dressent le bilan de ce dispositif. Ils soulignent notamment sa complexité et le fait qu’il est parfois mal adapté aux...