This essay reviews the historical and ongoing role played by trade in sustained high growth and human development … progress, and makes the case that the post-2015 development agenda should include considerations related to trade rules and … supply-side capacity. Given the strong links between trade-led growth, economic upgrading, and poverty reduction, the paper …

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 order to ensure transparency and to keep abreast of trade policies in support of sustainability, the WTO Committee … on Trade and Environment (CTE) mandated the WTO Secretariat to compile and collate all environment-related measures … notified to WTO. The database also includes environment-related entries found in Trade Policy Reviews (TPRs). This information …

Developments in trade finance in 2020 were largely driven by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Twelve years after … the great financial crisis of 2008-09, the issue of trade finance re-emerged as a matter of urgency. While the current … difficulties in accessing trade credit. This is occurring notably in countries - particularly developing countries - in which …

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 …