economic development. Gender equality is an inherent part of Aid for Trade. This has also been reflected in the Buenos Aires … development strategy seek to promote women's economic empowerment. * The main target group of gender related Aid for Trade is …Aid for Trade supports developing and least-developed countries in building their trade capacity and in increasing …

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 …

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 …

There is an emerging consensus among American politicians and many citizens that trade and globalization have … granted China “permanent normal trade relations” (PNTR) and China's 2001 entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) as key …-able increase in Chinese imports supposedly produced the loss of approximately 2.4 million U.S. jobs.However, the view that PNTR was …

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 …

The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a free trade agreement among 12 Pacific Rim countries whose joint gross … domestic products (GDPs) account for 36 percent of world GDP and whose mutual trade accounts for approximately 24 percent of … world trade. As for most proposed free trade agreements (FTAs), trade economists have provided ex ante computable general …

We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate … its effects, describe its economic effects, and analyze if this increase in trade protectionism reverted the effects of …

exporting and growth performance in Kenya using time series data. Despite trade liberalization and export promotion policies … pursued over time, Kenya's export growth has been sluggish and its contribution to economic growth is still limited …. Notwithstanding diversification efforts, exports are still strongly geared towards primary agricultural goods. Whereas the empirical …

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 …

imports from the removed beneficiaries. Using the gravity model of trade with high-dimensional fixed effects, we show that the …The European Union (EU) supports developing countries with a unilateral trade preference scheme. The scheme underwent a … trade agreement with the EU, in which case the negative effect of removal of unilateral trade preferences is compensated but …