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 …

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 …

trade network perspective, it measures the international flows of value-added and assesses countries’ position within GVCs …. After calculating a series of in-depth GVC indicators, the paper assesses the potential for trade creation within the …

scope and depth of issues addressed, trade negotiations are representing new challenges from which developing countries are … not immune. Besides their own regional integration process and the current Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations …, many developing countries have been negotiating preferential trade agreements with industrialised countries. Apart from …

Trade can be a powerful engine for economic growth, poverty reduction, and development. However, harnessing the power … of trade is often difficult for developing countries, particularly the least developed countries, because of supply …-side domestic constraints (lack of trade-related infrastructure and capacity). The Aid for Trade Initiative was launched to address …

Developing countries now account for a significant fraction of both world trade and two thirds of the membership of the … World Trade Organization (WTO). However, many are still individually small and thus have a limited ability to bilaterally … extract and enforce trade concessions from larger developed economies even though as a group they would be able to do so. We …

helping developing countries trade and grow. For researchers, the good news is that there is plenty of room for progress, with …

The system of global agricultural and food trade is undergoing rapid processes of change, with important implications … change in agri-food trade, the increased consolidation in food supply chains, the proliferation of public and private food … implications are of these changes for developing countries, for their participation in international agricultural trade as well as …