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 …

economic development. Gender equality is an inherent part of Aid for Trade. This has also been reflected in the Buenos Aires … development strategy seek to promote women's economic empowerment. * The main target group of gender related Aid for Trade is …Aid for Trade supports developing and least-developed countries in building their trade capacity and in increasing …

This paper looks at the various trade policies WTO Members have put into place to foster women's economic empowerment …. The analysis below is based on the information provided by WTO Members as part of their Trade Policy Review (TPRs) process … for the purpose of this paper.1 In the last 4 years, the trade policies of 111 WTO Members were under review. About 70% of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

small extent of intra-ASEAN trade, and the wide differences in economic size, development level, and industrial competence … giving rise to widely divergent perceptions of benefits and costs of integration. The switch to outward-looking development … strategies and external pressures (such as the formation of the European Union Single Market and the North American Free Trade …

We use an empirical gravity equation approach to study how nonreciprocal trade preferences (NRTPs), enacted mainly …, the average trade effect stemming from nonreciprocal preferences is highly unstable across specifications. However, once … effect on the exports of beneficiaries when they are members of the World Trade Organization and are very poor. Not …

Morocco's trade liberalization policies coincided with macroeconomic growth over the past two decades. The relationship … between trade liberalization and individual-level labor-market outcomes, however, are not well understood. By combining three … complementary approaches and modeling techniques, this paper estimates: (i) the relationship between trade agreements and trade …