. But South-South trade is partly picking up the slack. Middle-income countries are driving export diversification of low …-income countries. Developing countries may be moving toward a new version of export-led growth. …

Panel data on 54 developing countries between 1960 and 2000 are used to investigate how the impact of opening to trade … on economic growth is affected by wealth inequality. The results suggest (a) that opening to trade tends to accelerate …

Panel data on 54 developing countries between 1960 and 2000 are used to investigate how the impact of opening to trade … on economic growth is affected by wealth inequality. The results suggest (a) that opening to trade tends to accelerate …

export activities. Trade in services, particularly business services, has become an element of export diversification for …Services play a broad and strategic role in the economy. Trade in services has been expanding rapidly because … communication services are among the most successful services exports. This note focuses on the determinants of trade in services …

The paper investigates how Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) affect the range of goods exported by a nation. We use … the Melitz model and highly dis-aggregated data on Euro-Mediterranean trade to measure the effect of preferential trade … liberalization on the range of traded products. By focusing on the zeros in the trade matrix, the paper finds evidence that at the …

large and significant drop in imports from excluded countries, both in value and in their share in imports from all sources …

This report describes the complex and changing interrelationship between trade, domestic investment and foreign direct … investment (FDI) and provides examples of good practices in trade policymaking that create a healthy investment climate in … developing countries. A two-by-two taxonomy is used to analyse the impact of policies affecting imports and exports in both host …

violates IPR cannot legally export in a country that enforces them. Moreover free-riders cannot prevent others to copy their …

This paper discusses the impact of increasing standards in food production and trade on the export opportunities of low …, diminishing their export opportunities and leading to an unequal distribution of the gains from trade, resulting in …-income countries and on development in these countries. The increase in food standards is often seen as a threat to poor countries …