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 …

most determinant variables for defining Trade in Value Added (TiVA) clusters. The level of economic development remains a …

includes services, investment, competition policy and other behind-the-border issues can address the national-level supply …

case study, due to the fact that trade and investment policies are clearly and consistently documented. …There is a stark contrast between the ambitious investment promotion efforts of many least developed countries (LDCs …) and their often minimal commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in Service (GATS). At a time of urgent need to …

addition to the earlier work done on these topics in the WTO Working Group on the Interaction between Trade and Competition …

This paper analyses to which extent domestic institutions affect trade flows. We use two complementary approaches, one … focusing on the size of total trade flows and one focusing on bilateral trade patterns (gravity equation). Besides, we control … for two other domestic policy variables: trade policy and domestic infrastructure. We find that the quality of …

vulnerable to external shocks. With the exception of 2006-2008, the LDCs as a group have systematically recorded a trade deficit … LDCs for export diversification. But GVC participation cannot materialize without a proper trade environment. Some of the … processed goods. Active trade facilitation programmes, such as those identified during the Fourth Global Review of Aid for Trade …

, but otherwise tourism is rarely mentioned as a major trade and development option for Bangladesh. Within the limitations … diversification in services. The most obvious current impediments are inadequate infrastructure, lack of investment and (typically …