Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However …, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side …-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As such, they are best to be accompanied by trade facilitation …

Global trade imbalances narrowed in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. They have remained at a lower level … national saving and investment, which are in turn affected by policy distortions, including in trade policy. Simulations of the … OECD’s METRO model show liberalisation of existing trade distortions would modestly narrow aggregate trade imbalances in …

developing countries face some costs associated with trade liberalization, this paper contributes to the literature by analyzing … accession. The effects can even be negative if the country tries to refinance the trade liberalization costs by means of tax …The establishment of the currently negotiated Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between EU and Ukraine is the next significant …

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 …

The auto sector in Pakistan has been a persistent opponent of trade liberalisation in the country. This has entailed …

This study estimates the effect of trade facilitation measures implementation on trade costs in Asia and the Pacific … trade costs by more than 26%, cutting international transaction costs in Asia and the Pacific by about $ 1.2 trillion … annually. The analysis also confirms that there are significant reductions in trade costs associated with trade partners …

While international trade can offer gains from specialization and access to a wider range of products, it is also … structured overview of the economic literature on the interaction between environmental outcomes, trade, environmental policy and … trade policy. In this endeavor, it covers approaches reaching from descriptive data analysis based on Input‐Output tables …