"Pro-poor" tourism is arguably one of the best green options for addressing LDC poverty, employment and economic … remains untapped - tourism is the leading export for at least 11 LDCs, and the 2nd or 3rd largest export for another 11 or … more. It is also a major source of new employment, especially for women, youth and the rural poor in general. While …

, but otherwise tourism is rarely mentioned as a major trade and development option for Bangladesh. Within the limitations … circuits for cultural and religious tourism, and has demonstrated potential for sports tourism. The objective of this working … paper is to critically test the assertion that pro-poor "green" tourism is one of the best development options for the …

) and their often minimal commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in Service (GATS). At a time of urgent need to … address domestic infrastructure and investment gaps, this situation cannot be a positive signal for investors (either domestic … often lack internationally credible mechanisms for making commitments, which contributes to their evident difficulty in …

Digital networks are an increasingly critical component of global trade. In 2017, the Global Review of Aid for Trade … harvested in the Monitoring and Evaluation exercise in preparation for the Review, this paper analyses aid for trade for digital … as to better capture financing flows to digital connectivity and to understand how aid for trade is being used to …

This Working Paper contains some observations concerning the evolution of trade and trade-related policies in the Asia …-Pacific region since the establishment in 1989 of the Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM), whose goal is to improve the transparency …, either unilateral or in connection with bilateral, regional or multilateral trade agreements, can be greatly facilitated by …

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

This paper examines empirically whether Aid for Trade (AfT) programmes and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows … for export diversification. …

for two other domestic policy variables: trade policy and domestic infrastructure. We find that the quality of …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 …

between 167 countries for the years 1996 to 2009. We find that trade in health products has developed very dynamically, with …The main objective of this paper is to analyse trade flows and tariff policies of health products. Compared to previous … identified in the common trade classification. The first contribution is thus to construct three groups of health products based …

widely used in other WTO Agreements. Apart from the above, the GPA revision is important for the merging of trade and good … investment policy and for domestic economic reforms, and is an important tool of e-commerce. And, the revision has made possible … success story for the Organization. In March 2012, the GPA Parties completed a comprehensive revision of the Agreement …