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 …

In this paper we study the impact of digitalization on trade costs in 58 economies over the period 2014 - 2018 …. Improvements in digital connectivity can reduce trade costs through multiple channels, including better access to information … active mobile broadband subscriptions per capita, on a broad measure of trade costs that captures all impediments that make …

This study provides a decomposition of the WTO Global Trade Costs Index into five policy-relevant components: transport … and travel costs; information and transaction costs; ICT connectedness; trade policy and regulatorydifferences; and … governance quality. The WTO Global Trade CostsIndex is based on a new methodology by Egger et al. (2021) that delivers …

developing countries and especially the least developed among them secure a share in the growth in international trade … diversify production, linking to the Global Value Chains and developing adequate infra-structures facilitating digital trade as … overcoming some of these issues through various programs, all geared towards trade capacity building. It is argued that the work …

and trade finance, particularly those receiving trade loans. Results show that a percent increase in trade finance loan is … associated with 0.067-0.083 percent increase in export earnings depending on the model. When we proxy trade finance by the sum of … trade finance loans and export-adjusted notes receivable, elasticity estimates range between 0.18-0.31 depending on the …

Services is the fastest-growing sector of today's global economy and trade in services is the most dynamic segment of … world trade. However, its potential remains constrained by a variety of barriers: trade costs are estimated to be almost … double those in goods, and more than 40% of trade costs are accounted for by regulation-related factors. Regulatory measures …

This paper maps the provisions on anti-dumping, countervailing duties and safeguards in seventy-four regional trade … agreements. The key concern of the paper is that the elastic and selective nature of trade remedies may lead to more … discrimination, with reduced trade remedy actions against RTA partners, but a greater frequency of actions against non-members. The …

This paper attempts to fill a gap in the trade literature by providing a comprehensive overview of services … liberalization commitments in the new generation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) as compared to prevailing GATS commitments …

substantial benefits that may be associated with the liberalization of services trade, the GATS has obviously not yet lived up to … regimes and, thus, potentially higher gains from liberalization than in merchandise trade, to undertake or envisage …