- innovation and trade - are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent of … concentration and dominance, and the multilateral trade system had been buckling under pressure from a return to mercantilist ideas … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for …

This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty … eradication using microeconomic and macroeconomic mechanisms and the effects of trade and trade policy on consumer prices … household may be lifted out of or pushed into poverty. The impacts of trade on growth and longer-term consequences of trade …

This paper assesses the interaction of international trade with climate policies, and the influence of trade on the … implementation of SDG 13 (climate change). Although international trade contributes directly to GHG emissions, increased trade can …. Given that emissions are not universally priced, the paper examines where policies related to trade may be misaligned with …

structural change impacts on inequality for a sample of advanced, emerging, and transition economies. Trade liberalization … found that the process of structural change increases income inequality, while trade liberalization and FDI inflows help to …

This paper presents an overview of the trade and policy issues in the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals … the attention they merit, despite their profound consequences on how to use - or not use - trade policies for promoting … development. Following this, it examines the three major phases in the MDG/SDG progress: first, a pro-trade agenda during the …

Trade in health products has been flourishing in recent years as the demand for better health has been growing … throughout the world. At the same time, trade in health products is hampered by substantive trade barriers. In this paper, we … availability of health-related products such as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and medical equipment. The case for liberalizing trade …

This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements … macroeconomics, the empirical evidence has remained relatively scarce so far, in particular for the Euro area where trade and … from 2002-2012, to test the so-called trade-finance nexus. Since theoretical models stress that both flows might be …

trade contributes to economic growth, this could, in turn, impede economic development. Despite extensive literature on the … migration-trade nexus, there are few examples of policymakers highlighting the role of migration for internationalization. One …

targets of inclusive development via trade facilitation, and regional integration, the paper argues that given the Covid-19 … setback full potential depends on trade-led spillover benefits and structural factors. Our objective is to show that: given … preferential access trade agreement--the ricochet effect of the trade-induced productivity benefits via intermediates in the …