With the widespread interest in the role that international trade can play in achieving the Millennium Development … Goals, increasing attention is being given to the poverty impacts of trade liberalisation. The high level of public interest … has stimulated renewed research activity aimed at expanding the evidence-base available to trade negotiators and …

find that the projected welfare gains generated from liberalization of barriers against foreign direct investment are about …In this chapter I explain an innovative modeling approach that incorporates services, foreign direct investment (FDI … economics. The model shows that services liberalization yields welfare gains several multiples of the welfare gains obtained …

This paper explores the complex structures of recent free trade agreements (FTAs) between the EU and developing … full bilateral free trade, while only the Mexico, Chile and Turkey agreements have trade related commitments which are … it is moving to regional free trade with many domestic distortions still in place, producing a significant loss for the …