Guinea-Bissau is highly dependent on international trade even when compared to other nations of its size and income … level. However, it is equally clear that the country could derive far more benefit from its international trade … opportunities than it does at the present time. This study examines how to do this, looking not only at trade policy, the investment …

a development and diversification strategy, which the Ugandan government may wish to consider in the design of its … the importance of economic diversification for Uganda and on the prospects and challenges of oil and mineral development …. It addresses the following three issues: (a) why diversification is important for economic development?; (b) where Uganda …

Syria made promotion of non-oil exports one of the main objectives of its development strategy to counter the emerging … objective, the Government has implemented a number of trade policy reforms and took complementary measures in other policy areas … momentum. This paper tried to assess the achievement so far, identify the remaining gaps in the trade regime, and recommend …

"The records of traditional safeguard provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade …

poor countries than among industrial economies. Overall export diversification increases at low levels of development but …"Recent research highlights the relationship between economic development and productive diversification, which may be … hindered by market failures. After identifying stages of diversification in disaggregated export data, the authors develop a …

enterprises and farmers in export-oriented supply chains and their impact on employment patterns. 5) Review the scope and nature … of ongoing programs of international development agencies to provide technical assistance and other support for capacity …-building in trade-related SPS management in low- and middle-income countries, and draw operational lessons from that experience. 6 …