ambitious expectations. For example, on average across all WTO Members, only one-third of all services sectors have been …

The Marrakesh Agreement establishing the WTO recognizes the need for positive efforts designed to ensure that … commensurate with the needs of their economic development.This article discusses how the WTO contributes to facilitating Africa …’s integration into the WTO multilateral trading system. It is argued that, while African countries are actively engaged in the work …

This study provides a decomposition of the WTO Global Trade Costs Index into five policy-relevant components: transport … governance quality. The WTO Global Trade Costs Index is based on a new methodology by Egger et al. (2021) that delivers …

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

We investigate to what extent the probability that a Specific Trade Concern (STC) is raised in the WTO against a Member …

This study analyses the role of Aid for Trade in reducing trade costs in least developed countries (LDCs). The analysis … Fifth Global Review of Aid for Trade. Trade costs are high in LDCs and constitute a major impediment to their participation … in international trade. The most important sources of trade costs in LDCs are inadequate transport infrastructure …

important policy implications regarding reflections on the way LDCs could utilize their policy flexibilities in the WTO …) market access for products originating in Least developed countries (LDCs) on the latter's export performance. The analysis … is conducted over a sample of 41 LDCs, with data spanning the period 1998-2013. The empirical analysis examines both the …

developing Asia. It discusses various initiatives in which the WTO and partner institutions are involved to alleviate in part …