According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries’ growth would benefit from reductions in barriers to trade …. However, the empirical basis for judging trade reforms is weak. Econometrics are mostly ad hoc; results are typically not … employing treatment-and-control analysis. We find that a specific treatment, liberalizing tariffs on imported capital and …

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 …

sustainability, and provide social services necessary for human development. While trade and investment treaties have typically been … addressed by bilateral tax treaties. However, constraints on developing countries’ fiscal resources resulting from trade and … investment treaties are complex and nuanced, and they go much beyond the jurisdictional overlaps addressed by tax treaties. Trade …

This paper empirically investigates the impact of trade policy on export expansion and on GDP growth in developing … estimate the effect of trade policy on growth, while also making several improvements in the estimation of the underlying … policy implications. We find that outward-oriented trade policies substantially and significantly impact growth in developing …

multilateral trade negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda. This paper: discusses methodological issues associated with … effects of reducing tariffs and simultaneously replacing lost tariff revenues with revenues from consumption tax. It concludes …

established in 2001 but instead on the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements to identify tariff negotiating priorities. This … paper uses the lens of the terms-of-trade theory to investigate three specific areas in which it is frequently alleged that … currently applied tariffs are "too high," the implication being that there are still tariff reductions out there for an …

mechanism to incentivize rich countries to carry on with aid payments in the subsequent "aid for trade" game. We empirically …

economic policy. In our empirical analysis, based on an extensive dataset covering most of world trade, we find that GSP tends …

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 …