Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa …

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 …

The Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations has been ongoing for 10 years, and given political … arguably requires greater recognition of the value of trade policy disciplines that will be part of any agreement. The WTO is … rules of the game for other trade-related policies. Given the slow progress of the Round, greater emphasis could be put on …

This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors … addition to the earlier work done on these topics in the WTO Working Group on the Interaction between Trade and Competition …

In this paper we explore the potential gains that a trade agreement (TA) can provide by regulating trade …-policy uncertainty, in addition to the more standard gains from reducing the mean levels of trade barriers. We show that in a standard … trade model with income-risk neutrality there tends to be an uncertainty-increasing motive for a TA. With income …

This book is a synthesis of the results and implications from a series of product-specific import and export process … the time and cost, of trade procedures involved in moving goods from factory floor in an exporting country all the way to … warehouses in an importing country. The regional study complement the more macro-level and cross-country trade facilitation …

China has achieved great success in its economic development since it has conducted economy-wide reforms and opened … largest in FDI inflow, the third largest in foreign trade, the fourth largest in GDP, and an important engine for the global … the two largest markets. East Asia accounts for half of Chinas foreign trade and more than 70% of FDI inflow. Chinas trade …

multilateralize it. The paper first reviews free trade agreement (FTA) developments, and discusses the characteristics and motives of …

base, enhancing equitable economic development as well as facilitating the integration into the global economy. The AEC … involves liberalization and facilitation of trade in goods, services, and investment, as well as protection and promotion of …

impediment against trade and development, reflecting the complexity of these effects and their specificity to industries and …We assess the literature on public and private quality standards and their impact in food markets, international trade …, and global supply chains. We focus on their effects on welfare, trade, industrial organization, and labor markets and with …