Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic … perspective, general market access commitments with respect to services trade and commitments regarding government procurement of …

competitiveness perspectives that fuses climate change and trade regimes in potentially problematic ways as governments contemplate … trade actions to manage the environmental and/or competitiveness consequences of differential climate change policies. On … the trade side of this relationship, we have the reality that the GATT/WTO rules were not originally drafted to …

This essay reviews the historical and ongoing role played by trade in sustained high growth and human development … progress, and makes the case that the post-2015 development agenda should include considerations related to trade rules and … argues that trade led economic growth must be prioritised in the post-2015 development agenda. …

Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is broader in policy coverage than conventional trade agreements for … conditions of actual access in many sectors. This may also explain, in part, why there have been very few trade disputes under … the GATS to date - far fewer than under the GATT in merchandise trade. Also, governments appear to be generally hesitant …

The creation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), in the Uruguay Round, and its entry into force in … international services trade within an increasingly open environment in many countries. Given the peculiarities of services trade … conventional cross-border trade (consumption abroad, commercial presence, and presence of natural persons) and its coverage, and …

When looking at the conditions of trade in natural resources the world appears upside down: tariff protection in … natural resources sectors is generally lower than for overall merchandise trade, while export restrictions are twice as likely … tariff escalation may be the result of an uncooperative trade policy. Specifically, tariff escalation and export taxes can be …

averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a … activism. We test this theory with a new dataset that comprises monthly information on trade measures across 125 countries and ….e. the share of international trade covered by export restrictions) are positively correlated with the probability of …

Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on services have proliferated since 2000. This working paper briefly presents the … Development Agenda. The dataset, which covers PTA commitments of 53 WTO Members (counting EU Members States as one), is available …