There has been virtually no liberalization under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) to date. Most … entered into force, in a limited number of sectors. The only significant exceptions are the accession schedules of recent WTO …

In this paper, we investigate tourism-related policy approaches that WTO member countries adopted in the early weeks of …

help mitigate trade conflicts. …

We investigate to what extent the probability that a Specific Trade Concern (STC) is raised in the WTO against a Member … such “trade policy substitution” only occurs when the country maintaining the measure at issue is economically developed …

This study analyses the role of Aid for Trade in reducing trade costs in least developed countries (LDCs). The analysis … builds on questionnaires and case stories submitted as part of the Aid-for-Trade monitoring and evaluation exercise for the … Fifth Global Review of Aid for Trade. Trade costs are high in LDCs and constitute a major impediment to their participation …

important policy implications regarding reflections on the way LDCs could utilize their policy flexibilities in the WTO …

While conditions in trade finance markets returned to normality in the main routes of trade, the structural … difficulties of poor countries in accessing trade finance have not disappeared – and might have been worsened during and after the … global financial crisis. There is a consistent flow of information indicating that trade finance markets have remained …

The paper reviews a number of issues related to the use of currencies in international trade, more than one decade … in off-shore markets. Trade is an important factor in establishing a currency as an international currency, notably by … currency use for international trade and foreign direct investment transactions can even be helpful in achieving the …

The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is a plurilateral Agreement, meaning that it comprises only a subset … of the full Membership of the WTO. Currently, a number of WTO Members that are not Parties to the Agreement either are … actively seeking accession to it, have commitments to accede to the GPA in their respective WTO accession protocols or are, on …