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 …

protectionism and promoting global trade and investment. Ten years of trade monitoring later, and notwithstanding widespread anti-trade … trade related developments associated with the global financial crisis. When G20 Leaders met in London in early 2009 they … certain trade restrictive policy measures, the overall reality has been less alarmist. The paper will provide an introduction …

protectionism and promoting global trade and investment. Since then, 22 G20 reports and 24 WTO-wide reports have been published. The … monitor the trade-related developments associated with the crisis. Meeting in London in early 2009, the G20 Leaders mandated … paper will introduce the WTO Trade Monitoring exercise. It will show how the idea and the principles behind the current …

, inter alia, by the IMF (2016) and by us (2017), with a view to explaining the "missing" trade flows unpredicted by GDP …-based import models during the trade collapse of 2009 and subsequent recovery from it. At the time, it appeared that the …/global imports, over entire economy cycles (a phase of trade expansion, a sudden collapse and a recovery). Moreover, by weighting …

integrate in world trade. The paper uses a combination of techniques, from an analysis of disaggregated trade flows by country … and sectors, to the calculation of trade intensity indices by country and sector, and value-added trade by sector. It … finds combined evidence of forward and backward trade increasing between several neighbouring Asian economies and China, in …

remaining share of the global trade slowdown, not explained by demand factors. Protectionism does not come up as statistically …Since the recovery from the great financial crisis in 2010, global real trade flows grew much slower than pre …) A debate has arisen as to whether this global trade slowdown, and related falling trade-to-income elasticity, was …

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

Building on the results of the OECD-WTO Trade in Value-Added TiVA database, the paper analyses the evolution of …

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 …