The development process can advance more rapidly than ever before in the new global economy. While opening their … economies to trade and investment is a necessary condition for developing countries to achieve sustained high growth and reduce … developing countries' efforts to fully exploit the benefits of open trade and investment. The key objective of this report is to …

, trade in creative goods and services, and FDI in CCS offer significant opportunities for EU outermost regions to expand … of EU outermost regions, could help promote these areas and contribute to local development. …

- nontariff - trade barriers. More specifically, regional tariff commitments have not only amplified applied tariff overhangs … the World Trade Organization (WTO), but have also sharply reduced their tariff policy space within Africa, thus leaving … regulatory policies such as sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures and technical barriers to trade (TBT) as two of the few …

economic effects of the EU’s trade policies. To this end, it provides an overview of past liberalisation efforts, reviews trade … indicators in international comparison and lays out the future trade agenda of the Community. According to the empirical evidence … provided in this volume, integration in Europe does not seem to have entailed much trade diversion, while trade is likely to …

To further benefit from trade liberalisation, developed and developing countries must get their policies right, in … trade and other spheres, such as the web of domestic regulations that affect commerce within and between countries. In the … run-up to the November 1999 WTO Ministerial in Seattle, Washington, and a possible new round of multilateral trade …