Trade negotiations are frequently accompanied by sustainability impact assessment (SIA) to evaluate the potential … and trade policy makers, and thereby help to rebuild confidence in the trading system. However, SIA approaches ‒ including … assessing the sustainability impact of trade and trade agreements. …

As countries turn more to regionalism as a means of forwarding co-operation on trade rules and other areas of … policymaking, rules on investment are increasingly being incorporated into regional trade agreements (RTAs). We analyse the … economic consequences of including investment provisions in trade agreements by creating an index of the extensiveness of …

This report analyses the interactions between the investment and services chapters of 20 regional trade agreements. It … interaction between the investment and trade in services chapters. The report then looks at the implications of the services …

Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) have grown dramatically in number and importance since the early 1990s and they …-specific clauses regarding non-discrimination, transparency, due-process, trade remedies and the exlusion of antidumping. The study …

trade facilitation measures. It was prepared in response to concerns with respect to the cost implications of a future WTO … agreement on trade facilitation and will be complemented in the near future by additional data from a wider range of developing … and least-developed countries. The report contains observations with respect to the methodology of assessing trade …

This study aims at exploring how recent developments in the retail sector affect trade in consumer goods. It focuses on … and trade policy are complementary. In developing countries the entry of international retailers can have a positive …

to freer trade, in most models these costs are assumed to be very small. However, more recent evidence is casting doubt …, facilitating the comparison of short term labour market impacts from trade across countries. Data are reported at the individual … results are consistent with modern trade theory which posits that an expanding export sector rewards mostly high skilled …

policy initiatives address some of these differences. Our results suggest that while firm size clearly influences the trade …