The negotiations on trade in services at the WTO have so far produced little liberalization beyond levels unilaterally …

As each new round of multilateral trade negotiations approaches, there is a demand for a negotiating rule that would …

export subsidies in the industrial countries and sharply reduce the scope for distorting domestic support—by 70 per cent in … technologies that can help mitigate global warming. An agreement to facilitate trade by cutting red tape will further expand trade … their ability to take advantage of new opportunities will be enhanced by the Doha-related “aid for trade” initiative …

Trade and investment in services is inhibited by a range of policy restrictions, but the best offers so far in the Doha … services trade and regulatory reform. The first is for governments to create mechanisms ('services knowledge platforms') to … bring together regulators, trade officials and stakeholders to discuss services regulatory reform. Such mechanisms could …

The focus of trade policy has shifted in recent years from economy-wide reductions in tariffs and trade restrictions … towards targeted interventions to facilitate trade and promote exports. Most of these latter interventions are based on the … new mantra of "aid-for-trade" rather than on hard evidence on what works and what doesn’t. On the one hand, rigorous …

ensures that the costs of trade diversion for the QUAD and other developing countries are negligible. …

examined in the presence of costly technology transfer. The trade-off between technology transfer and market competition …

the provision of development assistance (‘aid for trade’) to bolster regulatory capacity and enforcement could enhance the …This paper discusses what could be done to expand services trade and investment through a multilateral agreement in the …

. Estimates suggest that beneficiaries initially saw both faster export growth and greater diversification across destinations and … export growth and diversification is not due to small export transactions to new markets creating an illusion of … diversification; to greater exposure of beneficiary firms to crisis-affected economies leading to stunted export growth; or to …