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 …

, and slowly increases at later stages of development. Third, the volatility of country-specific macroeconomic shocks falls … with the level of development. We argue that many theories linking volatility and development are not consistent with these … volatility into these four sources, quantify their contribution to aggregate volatility, and study how they relate to the stage …

What can further market integration contribute to growth and employment? A series of hypothetical trade reform … scenarios explores what countries at different levels of development can expect to gain from reforming tariffs, non …-tariff barriers, trade facilitation and domestic support to agriculture. Simulations of multilateral and regional trade agreements …

of political freedoms versus economic development. This paper takes a new approach to provide an answer by using micro …

, and slowly increases at later stages of development. Third, the volatility of country- specific macroeconomic shocks falls … with the level of development. We argue that many theories linking volatility and development are not consistent with these … volatility into these four sources, quantify their contribution to aggregate volatility, and study how they relate to the stage …

Vietnam.s development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the … its domestic market only slowly while encouraging export growth. …

. In doing so, it considers the main channels of transmission, to focus on international trade, investment, finance and …

The trade analysis and firm surveys conducted in several African countries in this study highlight an apparent mismatch … between government policies and exporters' needs in the provision and use of trade support services. While acknowledging the … diversification, however, require not only a right set of macroeconomic and structural policies, but also a sub …