, and is the most dynamic sector of world trade. New negotiations under the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services … worldwide. The papers in this volume, produced as part of the OECD Trade Directorate's services project, explore fundamental … issues for the services negotiations: what are the barriers to trade in services? How can those barriers be addressed in …

important, how it affects global agricultural trade, and whether it can help reduce poverty and hunger. …

Developing and transition economies are seeking to accelerate their development by liberalising trade and investment …, concerns have been expressed that some countries might turn away from open trade and investment. In fact, most crisis …-affected countries are continuing to liberalise trade and investment, which they see as part of the solution to the crisis, not the cause …

report discusses the extent to which OECD country agricultural and agricultural trade policies are coherent with, and … four main categories of OECD country agricultural policies: domestic, trade, regulatory, and development co …

Succeeding with Trade Reforms: The Role of Aid for Trade highlights the potential of aid for trade to boost economic … lessons for the design of aid-for-trade projects and programmes and for increasing their effectiveness. Building on this … analysis, the book also quantifies the binding constraints to trade in developing countries and the importance of complementary …

The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA) was a turning point in the reform of the agricultural trade system …. It imposed disciplines on trade-distorting domestic policies and established new rules in the areas of market access and … challenges for further trade liberalisation? This report provides some answers to these questions for all OECD countries. A key …

The links between trade policy and competition policy have become more important in recent years. With tariff … reductions, trade negotiators are looking increasingly at non-border policies that distort trade and at non-governmental barriers … to trade. And, as official barriers to trade and investment fall, firms may have a greater incentive to engage in anti …