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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects: Potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)
Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014
-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435379
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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments: Insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435382
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LDC export diversification, employment generation and the "green economy": What roles for tourism linkages?
Honeck, Dale - 2012
advantage and development potential for the majority of LDCs, via its extensive upstream and downstream linkages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326801
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Competition policy and poverty reduction: A holistic approach
Anderson, Robert D.; Müller, Anna Caroline - 2013
This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326814
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Clustering value-added trade: Structural and policy dimensions
Escaith, Hubert; Gaudin, Hadrien - 2014
most determinant variables for defining Trade in Value Added (TiVA) clusters. The level of economic development remains a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435365
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Canary in a coal mine: How trade concerns at the Goods Council reflect the changing landscape of trade frictions at the WTO
Santana, Roy; Dobhal, Adeet - 2024
This paper studies the under-explored yet critical role of WTO's regular bodies, particularly focusing on the discussions of "trade concerns" within the Goods Council, its subsidiary bodies, as well as the General Council. These discussions are pivotal for the governance of international trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014547793
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Evolution of Asia's outward-looking economic policies: Some lessons from trade policy reviews
Daly, Michael - 2011
is that impediments to economic development are largely homegrown. Consequently, unilateral structural reform, of which … GATT/WTO, the stalling of negotiations in connection with the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) should not preclude further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326768
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"Expect the unexpected"? LDC GATS commitments as internationally credible policy indicators? The example of Mali
Honeck, Dale - 2011
or foreign), and may be a missed opportunity to address services aspects of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). LDCs … further be used as bargaining chips in the current Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations. Mali has been selected as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326753
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Special and differential treatment in the WTO: Why, when and how?
Keck, Alexander; Low, Patrick - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330194
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Least-developed countries' trade during the "super-cycle" and the great trade collapse: Patterns and stylized facts
Escaith, Hubert; Tamenu, Bekele - 2013
Notwithstanding some progress in market and product diversification - including services - LDCs remain particularly vulnerable to external shocks. With the exception of 2006-2008, the LDCs as a group have systematically recorded a trade deficit. The 2008-2009 global crisis and the bumpy recovery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330200