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 …

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 …

date. Indeed, sustainable development is recognized as an objective in the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade … contribute to the post-2015 development agenda? In reply, the author offers some thoughts on 10 contributions that trade, and WTO … the complex way in which trade and trade policy interact with the evolving debate on the post-2015 development agenda - a …

A pivotal factor to improving the economies of developing countries is to eliminate trade barriers and increase market … access. This paper examines efforts at liberalizing trade in developing countries. It explains the various multilateral trade … agreements and negotiations and analyses their outcomes. It looks into the issue of trade distortions and its impact on …

Most trade-led growth strategies focus on exports. This article argues that they should not overlook imports for two … main reasons. First, imports are an important determinant of export performance. Therefore, the success of an export … productivity and indirectly by increasing export performance, making them a key component of a trade-led growth strategy. This …

The Fourth Session of the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), held in Doha, Qatar, in … November 2001, launched a new round of multilateral trade negotiations (MTN) and a work programme (WP) for the WTO involving …

cooperation should aim to reduce both intra- and inter- regional trade facilitation gaps as well as to expand the connectivity …. South Asia has to enact its own connectivity and trade facilitation arrangement to take forward the agenda of South Asian … trade facilitation and connectivity in the region. South Asia connectivity needs a new vision to compete globally. This …

trade environment as a result of trade facilitation reforms. Using data from World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, the paper … suggests that improving customs clearance, government regulations, trade finance, and energy and telecommunication … their trade. The results also indicate that African firms tend to respond more to a changing environment, owing to the …

How does import protection affect export performance? In trade models with scale economies, import liberalization can … export growth following the permanent normalization of trade relations with China (PNTR). But there was also an offsetting … reduce industry-level exports by cutting domestic production. We show that this export destruction mechanism reduced US …

The paper asks whether trade can help to achieve the employment targets of the Sustainable Development Goals. The focus … decent work for all." The theoretical and empirical links between trade and employment are examined to suggest whether trade … has a positive or negative impact on the quantity and quality of employment. At the aggregate level, trade has a positive …