to trade barriers and infrastructure quality and cost of infrastructural services. The relative importance of trade …This paper explores the role of producer services and ICT on international outsourcing. The motivation for outsourcing … barriers and various indicators of infrastructure vary between sectors. Vertical specialization in the electronics sector …

, finance and insurance, for some 150 economies. The 2016 edition of Trade Profiles incorporates the data previously provided in …Services Profiles 2015 provides key statistics on “infrastructure services”, i.e. transportation, telecommunications …

Services Profiles 2014 provides key statistics on “infrastructure services”, i.e. transportation, telecommunications …, finance and insurance, for some 150 economies. The information is derived from multiple sources, such as national accounts …, employment statistics, balance of payments statistics, foreign affiliates’ trade in services statistics, foreign direct …

Services Profiles 2013 provides statistics on key “infrastructure services”, i.e. transportation, telecommunications …, finance and insurance, for 140 economies. The information is derived from multiple sources, such as national accounts …, employment statistics, balance of payments statistics, foreign affiliates’ trade in services (FATS) statistics, foreign direct …

This paper explores the impact of vertical specialization on world trade within the framework of the O-ring theory of … in low-cost countries will only have an incentive to upgrade quality if adequately efficient infrastructure, logistics … and customs procedures are in place. Changing trade patterns between USA and Mexico and China suggests that proximity and …

This study provides a decomposition of the WTO Global Trade Costs Index into five policy-relevant components: transport … and travel costs; information and transaction costs; ICT connectedness; trade policy and regulatory differences; and … governance quality. The WTO Global Trade Costs Index is based on a new methodology by Egger et al. (2021) that delivers …

Harmonized System (HS) over a sixteen-year period, to study the link between illicit trade in live animals and threat to animal …

monitor the trade-related developments associated with the crisis. Meeting in London in early 2009, the G20 Leaders mandated … protectionism and promoting global trade and investment. Since then, 22 G20 reports and 24 WTO-wide reports have been published. …