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 …

. But South-South trade is partly picking up the slack. Middle-income countries are driving export diversification of low …-income countries. Developing countries may be moving toward a new version of export-led growth. …

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 …

Panel data on 54 developing countries between 1960 and 2000 are used to investigate how the impact of opening to trade … on economic growth is affected by wealth inequality. The results suggest (a) that opening to trade tends to accelerate …

Panel data on 54 developing countries between 1960 and 2000 are used to investigate how the impact of opening to trade … on economic growth is affected by wealth inequality. The results suggest (a) that opening to trade tends to accelerate …

export activities. Trade in services, particularly business services, has become an element of export diversification for …Services play a broad and strategic role in the economy. Trade in services has been expanding rapidly because … communication services are among the most successful services exports. This note focuses on the determinants of trade in services …

The paper investigates how Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) affect the range of goods exported by a nation. We use … the Melitz model and highly dis-aggregated data on Euro-Mediterranean trade to measure the effect of preferential trade … liberalization on the range of traded products. By focusing on the zeros in the trade matrix, the paper finds evidence that at the …

This paper presents a framework for estimating and simulating a quantitative spatial model of trade and violence. In … spatially-diffusing feedback loops between development and pacification are one of the main findings of our analysis. …