This essay reviews the historical and ongoing role played by trade in sustained high growth and human development … progress, and makes the case that the post-2015 development agenda should include considerations related to trade rules and … supply-side capacity. Given the strong links between trade-led growth, economic upgrading, and poverty reduction, the paper …

century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …

Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic … perspective, general market access commitments with respect to services trade and commitments regarding government procurement of …