international technology diffusion, trade, cross-country productivity differences, financial development and fluctuations. In many …

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

four widely-advocated policies: removing explicit restrictions to trade and FDI; promoting domestic competition; improving … trade in both goods and services, thus aiming to account for the most important channels of globalisation and dealing with … most modes of cross-border services supply. It first describes trends in trade, FDI and the four sets of policies using a …

The Netherlands has strongly benefited from globalisation, which boosted international trade, cross-border investment … and economic growth over the latest decades. Looking ahead, the Netherlands needs to shift the trade and investment …

on the potential for integrating production processes among countries in the region through further trade and investment …

paralysis of the Doha Round, the proliferation of preferential trade agreement and the launching of mega-regional trade … negotiations have encouraged the debate about the governance of international trade. In contrast to a benign interpretation of the … relationship between ?XXI century regionalism? and the multilateral trade regime, we argue that there is a remarkable continuity …