. Its formal goal is to foster export-led growth in developing countries. Its theoretical foundations and empirical support … helping developing countries trade and grow. For researchers, the good news is that there is plenty of room for progress, with …

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. In fact, there is a consistent flow of information indicating that trade finance markets have …

Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to …. The instruments used include export taxes, price controls, production quotas, and domestic producer and consumer taxes … (equivalent to trade taxes if no domestic production is possible). We review the literature, and argue that the policy equilibrium …

established in 2001 but instead on the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements to identify tariff negotiating priorities. This … paper uses the lens of the terms-of-trade theory to investigate three specific areas in which it is frequently alleged that … tariff binding overhang. As it turns out, these three areas are almost exclusively found to be the trade policies that …

improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process …

.S trade preferences. We combine firm level panel data on U.S. foreign affiliate activity from the U.S. Bureau of Economic … Analysis (BEA) with detailed measures of U.S. trade preferences from the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) to create … equations approaches to address the likely endogeneity of export-oriented foreign investment, we find that each $1 billion in U …

In a seminal paper, Rose (2004) found that the assumed positive impact of the WTO on international trade was … and separating the WTO from other forms of trade agreements. A key characteristic of this literature is the rather … simplistic way in which trade agreements are treated whereby all trade agreements are lumped together. Trade agreements come …

We study the relationship between participation in free trade agreements (FTAs) and the sustainability of democracy …