century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on …

Indicators - which closely reflect the Trade Facilitation Agreement negotiated at the Bali WTO Ministerial Conference of December …

investigations by reviewing the literature, the applicable WTO rules and, in particular, the pertinent case law. The potential value …

pose considerable challenges for the WTO and its Members. On the one hand, Members need to periodically update their … the definition and thus also the implementation of some WTO agreements where the product coverage is defined in terms of …. It then looks back at the history of the introduction of the HS and its subsequent amendments into the WTO schedules and …

ambitious expectations. For example, on average across all WTO Members, only one-third of all services sectors have been …

rather on ensuring that the importance of tourism for LDCs is acknowledged and acted upon. Indeed, governments can always …

majority of least developed countries (LDCs) - a challenging task in Bangladesh in the face of the country's success as an …

There is a stark contrast between the ambitious investment promotion efforts of many least developed countries (LDCs … or foreign), and may be a missed opportunity to address services aspects of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). LDCs …. Considering that most LDCs, under domestic laws, have already opened a wide range of services sectors to foreign direct investment …

remains untapped - tourism is the leading export for at least 11 LDCs, and the 2nd or 3rd largest export for another 11 or … advantage and development potential for the majority of LDCs, via its extensive upstream and downstream linkages …