This report describes the complex and changing interrelationship between trade, domestic investment and foreign direct … investment (FDI) and provides examples of good practices in trade policymaking that create a healthy investment climate in … developing countries. A two-by-two taxonomy is used to analyse the impact of policies affecting imports and exports in both host …

Sustainable Development Goals. It combines the comparative advantages of the different partners involved, creates synergies …

This paper reviews key recent literature on the effects of trade liberalisation on poverty in developing countries and … effects on poor households, depending, inter alia, on what trade policies are liberalised and how the household earns its … living. Working in the export predicts gains and in the import-competing sector losses, a finding that is re-inforced by …

This article reviews key recent literature on the effects of trade liberalization on poverty in developing countries … that liberalization has very heterogeneous effects on poor households, depending, inter alia, on what trade policies are … liberalized and how the household earns its living. Working in the export sector predicts gains, and working in the import …

Agricultural trade is widely considered as an important contributor to developing countries‘ economic growth, poverty … reforms as well as targeting of donor interventions. The analysis is supplemented by case studies of Aid for Trade programmes … supporting agricultural trade expansion in Indonesia, Zambia and Mozambique. The report confirms that developing countries …

The number of national export promotion agencies (EPAs) has tripled over the last two decades. While more countries … made them part of their national export strategy, studies criticized their efficiency in developing countries (Hogan … each $1 of export promotion, we estimate a $300 increase in exports for the median EPA. However, there is heterogeneity …

integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade … practitioners and researchers in both areas. She concludes that while at least some trade preferences actually have been less of a … failure than their reputation suggests, trade facilitation is a far more promising policy option for the future. …

automatically translate into positive development gains from trade without the appropriate policies to build productive capacity and … international trade without developing the full range of capabilities required to produce a product or service, it will not … productive capacity, infrastructure and services, the business environment, trade and investment policies and industry …